A former vice president of The Washington Post was found dead on the floor at a Hell’s Kitchen hot spot, surrounded by a needle, a pipe and pills, sources said.
Guyon Knight, 64, who served as vice president for corporate communications, collapsed around 8 a.m., Saturday outside a room where a party was being held at the Out, according to the sources.
The venue, on West 42nd Street, boasts a gay-but-straight-friendly spa, hotel and clubs.
Cops and medics responded after a 911 caller reported a man unconscious, “possibly due to drug use.”
The Medical Examiner’s Office did not reply to multiple calls seeking the cause of death.
Knight — who lived with his wife in a 30th-floor apartment at the landmarked Century Condo on Central Park West — was rushed to Roosevelt Hospital, where he was pronounced dead.
Friends and colleagues declined to comment — except to confirm the former newspaper executive had died.
Guyon and his wife, Linda, have a son who lives in Detroit.
The former executive joined the Washington Post in 1982.
Before that, the Ivy League-educated Knight, had served as director of public relations for Dun and Bradstreet.
Earlier, he was assistant public relations director for the Olin Corporation.
He received his undergraduate degree from Dartmouth and his Master’s from Columbia.
He left The Washington Post in November 2007 for the privately held company Bellor Knight, a business services firm.