BABY JANE HOLZER

The foundation of Jane Holzer’s fortune, if not her success, are four buildings on Worth Avenue originally purchased by her father. Out of that has come a remarkable art collection, a brief flirtation with producing movies that resulted in Kiss of the Spider Woman, among others, and lavish abodes in New York and Southampton.She met Warhol in 1964, and that day for Baby Jane – and yes, she got her name because of the gaudy Bette Davis/Joan Crawford movie What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? – was the day her life changed.She became the first of Warhol’s coterie of celebrities who gathered at his Manhattan headquarters, known as The Factory. He would make avant-garde films and art pieces about them and publicize their exploits as underground "superstars.""I didn’t understand how famous he would be. The Factory was all silver foil. Foil everywhere, even hanging from the pipes. When I walked in for the first time Andy was painting flowers on the floor."

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