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Famous for Fifteen Minutes: My Years With Andy Warhol
Famous for Fifteen Minutes My Years With Andy Warhol Author:Isabelle Dufresne, aka, Ultra Violet After being expelled from her French convent and unreformed by reform school, Isabelle Dufresne moved to New York. The young, raven-haired beauty took the social world by storm. She drank sterilized water with Howard Hughes, caught the eye of Richard Nixon, and basked in the company of Man Ray, de Kooning, Marcel Duchamp, and Salvador Dali. It w... more »as Dali, her companion of five years, who introduced her to Andy Warhol in 1963. "Leave Dali, he's too old." said Warhol. Soon thereafter , Isabelle metamorphosed into Ultra Violet, becoming an intimate of Warhol's underground scene-the Factory, where parties, drugs, orgies, and film making went on twenty-four hours a day.« less