1980: ANDY WARHOL HIRES JAY SHRIVER.

Shriver became one of Warhol's painting assistants. (DD48)


AUTUMN 1980: HOLLY WOODLAWN RETURNS TO NEW YORK.

HOLLY WOODLAWN left Florida, flew back to New York, and got a job as coat-check girl at LEWIS FREEDMAN’s club S.N.A.F.U. (meaning “situation normal: all fouled up”).

Holly visited Andy at the Factory and he took a photograph of her cock with his Polaroid camera. Eventually, she revived her cabaret act, performing at SNAFU. On opening night, unable to get a cab, she hitchhiked to the club and made a dramatic entrance in the back of a white pick up truck. (HW291-2)

1980: JOE DALLESANDRO LEAVES EUROPE.

Joe Dallesandro moved back to New York to try to get his life together and to quit taking drugs and alcohol.

Dallesandro moved in with his father whose method for detoxing him was to feed him booze until he fell down in order to prevent him from feeling the pain of drug withdrawal.

Joe’s biological mother was also having problems and contacted Joe. She wanted to move from Seattle where she was now living to Oakland to be near her two children from her second marriage. Together Joe and his mother drove to Oakland in a trailer “drinking their troubles into oblivion”.

Joe Dallesandro:

“I think we were doing about a half gallon of vodka per day... and that was just for the afternoon. Later on we’d have another half gallon to try and finish for the evening.”(JOE30)

NOV. 1980: ANDY WARHOL MEETS JON GOULD.




Andy Warhol & Jon Gould
(ca. 1982)

Andy Warhol met twenty-seven year old JON GOULD through Chris Makos. Chris had met Gould at the baths although he neglected to tell Warhol that at the time. After JED JOHNSON split up with Warhol, Gould became Warhol's boyfriend. (BC439)

Jon Gould broke up with Warhol in September 1985 . Towards the end of their relationship, Andy started seeing a nineteen year old named Sam Bolton who Warhol gave a job to as Fred Hughes' assistant. (DD52) Sam denied ever having sex with Andy. It is unknown whether Warhol ever had sex with Gould, although Gould did stay with Andy in his townhouse.


Sam Bolton, Dolly Parton & Andy Warhol

DEC. 21, 1980: ANDY WARHOL AND JED JOHNSON BREAK UP.

The day after Andy split up with Jed Johnson, he asked Brigid Berlin to send Jon Gould a dozen red roses at his office. When Jon rang to thank him, Warhol instructed Brigid to send Jon a dozen roses every day. After two weeks, Gould asked his friend Chris Makos to "get Andy to stop; the roses were embarrassing him at work." (BC438-9)

DEC. 25, 1980: GREGORY BATTCOCK DIES.

The body of GREGORY BATTCOCK - art professor, critic, columnist, and star of HORSE - was found on the balcony of his tenth floor condominium apartment in San Juan, Puerto Rico. He had been stabbed 102 times. (He had a reputation for picking up rough trade.) (DB404)

1981

BEGINNING 1981: LOU REED CLEANS UP.

Lou went to twelve step fellowships - NA and AA - to help him give up drugs. (LR322)

1981: JOE DALLESANDRO CLEANS UP.

Joe moved to LA and stopped drinking by going to AA meetings. He worked as a chauffeur for a sedan-limo service and tried to revive his acting career. (JOE30)

MARCH 1981: BOB COLACELLO HIRES DORIA REAGAN.

BOB COLACELLO hired RONALD REAGAN'S daughter in law, Doria, as his secretary. Her husband, Ron Reagan was a ballet dancer with the Joffrey and his "salary was a pittance". (BC450)

MARCH 1981: FRED HUGHES ATTACKS ANDY WARHOL.

FRED HUGHES attacked Andy Warhol in Paris where Fred, Andy and Bob Colacello had gone to attend Nelson Seabra's Red Ball. (BC455)

ca. JUNE 1981: ANDY WARHOL GETS PNEUMONIA.

Andy Warhol was diagnosed with "walking pneumonia" by his doctor, Dr. Cox. (BC441) FRED HUGHES and BOB COLACELLO went on a planned promotional trip for INTERVIEW magazine to the West Coast without Warhol. Fred Hughes' erratic behaviour became increasingly noticeable.(BC454)

1981: HOLLY WOODLAWN STARS IN ORTON'S PLAY.

HOLLY WOODLAWN appeared as Geraldine in Joe Orton’s What the Butler Saw with porn star HARRY REEMS, but the show flopped. Not long afterward, she was offered the part of Googie Gomez in an off-Broadway production of The Ritz, also starring another porn star CAL CULVER, but the show ran out of money in the first week and closed before officially opening.

1981: HOLLY WOODLAWN PLAYS MARIA IN THE SOUND OF MUZAK.

After a successful cameo appearance in Trojan Women, Holly starred as Maria in a satirical version of the Sound of Music, re-titled the Sound of Muzak, produced by the same people who did Trojan Women. The venue was the basement of Club 57.

Other cast members included MICHAEL MUSTO playing Sister Sledge and LENNY DEAN playing Sister Boogie Boogie Woman. Also in the cast was JOHN SEX and WENDY WILD. Shortly afterwards, Holly Woodlawn appeared in Tinseltown Tirade on Off-Broadway. (HW293-4)

DEC. 1981: NANCY REAGAN APPEARS ON THE COVER OF INTERVIEW.



1982

MARCH 11, 1982: ANDY WARHOL WRITES JED JOHNSON OUT OF HIS WILL. (DD111)

1982: ANDY WARHOL DOES TV.

Warhol produced and appeared in three cable television series during the eighties. Andy Warhol's Fashion was shown on Manhattan Cable, Andy Warhol's TV was shown on the the Madison Square Garden Network and Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes was shown on MTV. Warhol died before the last episode of Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes was finished.

SEPT. 2, 1982: TOM BAKER DIES.

Tom Baker, who starred in I, A MAN died of drug poisoning “in the arms of friends... in a shooting gallery for drug addicts in a burned-out Lower east Side building” on his birthday. (UV251)

OCTOBER 2, 1982: PAUL AMERICA DIES

Paul America died after being hit by a car while walking down the road on his way home from a dental appointment on October 19, 1982 in Ormond Beach, Florida. (RH1)

1982: HOLLY WOODLAWN ATTEMPTS SUICIDE.

Holly took an overdose of pills, depressed by the aids-related death of her friend VINCENT NASSO. Woodlawn phoned her friend Joyce who took her to St. Vincent’s Hospital where they pumped out her stomach. She then checked into a clinic for alcoholics for a week and went into therapy.

Holly stopped using drugs on a regular basis and made cameo appearances - about twice a year - usually at Limelight where she was paid at the most, fifty dollars. (HW295)



1983

MARCH 1983: JON GOULD MOVES IN WITH ANDY WARHOL.

Although Gould moved in to Warhol's townhouse, he also maintained a separate residence. He was back and forth between Los Angeles and New York and by March 1985 stayed with Warhol only on business trips from L.A. (PT95)

MAY 1983: MICKEY RUSKIN DIES.

Mickey Ruskin, the owner of Max's Kansas City, died of a heart attack, complicated by cocaine addiction, at the age of fifty. (DB404)

AUTUMN 1983: JEAN MICHEL BASQUIAT MOVES INTO A WARHOL PROPERTY.

Jean Michel Basquiat, who was working on artistic collaborations with Warhol, moved into a two-story building on Great Jones owned by Warhol. The rent was $4,000 a month, which Basquiat often paid late "partly because he was extravagant with money and also because he had developed a $1,000 a week cocaine habit." (DB392)



1984

JAN. 1984: ELEANOR WARD DIES.

Warhol's first New York art dealer, ELEANOR WARD, died at the age of seventy-five. (DB403)

1984: JOE DALLESANDRO DOES THE COTTON CLUB.

JOE DALLESANDRO was cast as “Lucky” Luciano in Francis Ford Coppola’s The Cotton Club and got various supporting roles in both films and television in Los Angeles where he had been working as a limo driver. (JOE30)

ca. 1984: ANDY WARHOL DOES MUSIC VIDEOS. (UW75)

Vincent Fremont:

"Andy wanted us to be producing not only the TV show, but camera-for-hire projects, like fashion-promo videos and music videos. Our first big music video job was with the band The Cars. Andy co-directed the video with Don Munroe with me as the producer. Don directed Ric Ocasek's solo song, called True to You. We did other music videos for Miguel Bose, Laura Donna Berte, Walter Steding, and Curiosity Killed the Cat." (UW76)

AUGUST 1984: TRUMAN CAPOTE DIES.

Truman Capote died one month before his sixtieth birthday, his body ravaged by years of drug and alcohol abuse. (DB 403)

DEC. 3, 1984: THE FACTORY MOVES FOR THE LAST TIME.

December 3rd was the first day of work at the final Factory - which had been re-located from 860 Broadway to an old Con Edison Factory on Madison Avenue between 32nd and 33rd Street. (L&D457) Warhol purchased the new building earlier in the year for $1.2 million and over a six month period, moved offices to the new building.(DB392)

To purchase the new building Warhol took out a mortgage "for the first time in his life, even though he already owned five substantial properties: the houses on East 66th Street and 89th and Lexington, another on the Bowery, the Montauk compound, and forty empty acres in Carbondale, Colorado." (BC459)



1985

JAN. 3, 1985: CHAMPAGNE OPENS.

Jackie Curtis' play, Champagne opened at La MaMa. Jackie played lead character, Piper Heidsig. (MA)

1985: CAMPBELL'S HIRES ANDY WARHOL.

The Campbell Soup Company hired ANDY WARHOL to produce a series of paintings of their dry soup mixes. (DB322)

FEB. 1985: INGRID SUPERSTAR TRIES TO CALL ANDY WARHOL.

INGRID SUPERSTAR phoned Andy Warhol collect, but he refused to take the call. (AWD631)

Andy Warhol:

"The other day a call came collect from Ingrid Superstar. I didn't take it. I mean, if she's still calling collect... I couldn't face hearing about her life - kids/no kids, married/not married." (AWD631)

MAY 15, 1985: JACKIE CURTIS DIES OF DRUG OVERDOSE.

JACKIE CURTIS died of an accidental heroin overdose at the age of 38. Both Jackie's wake and his funeral mass were held in Manhattan. His wake was at a funeral home on 2nd Avenue and 21st Street and his funeral mass was at St. Ann's Church. (J)



Jackie Curtis on YouTube at:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nirn9XedlVA

Jackie was laid out in his coffin as a man - unlike Candy Darling who was dressed as a woman when buried. Jackie Curtis' corpse wore a dark suit with his hair slicked back and a big white flower on his lapel. Photographs of Jackie in drag were arranged on a table and inside the casket were various show business momentos and a plaque that said “John Holder, a.k.a. Jackie Curtis.”

Cast members from the Theater of the Ridiculous attended, as well as “every weirdo and junkie off Avenue D,” but neither Warhol nor Paul Morrissey showed up. Instead they sent flowers.

As the pallbearers were taking out the casket, the woman who was doing heroin with Jackie on the night she died started sobbing uncontrollably and screamed out “Oh, God, please forgive me! Oh, God, Jackie! Please! I didn’t mean it. I’m so sorry. I’m so sorry.” (HW295-7)

A friend of Jackie Curtis said that at Jackie's wake, "friends filled his casket with photographs and momentos of his career, packs of Kool cigarettes, a magic wand, a cocktail shaker full of martinis, and sprinkled his face and body with glitter. Later, after the funeral, friends covered his burial mound with so much red glitter that it was visible in the distance from the highway." (JCC)

LATE SUMMER 1985: ANDY WARHOL MEETS SAM BOLTON.

Andy Warhol met SAM BOLTON at a charity ball in Newport, Rhode Island. Sam was 19 years old, Andy almost 57. Sam was hired as Fred Hughes' assistant and moved to New York in September, becoming Andy's companion although Sam denied ever having sex with Warhol. (DD51)

AUGUST 1985: TED CAREY DIES.

TED CAREY, "Andy's longtime gallery going and shopping companion," died of an AIDS-related illness at the age of fifty-three - a week before the first and only exhibition of Carey's faux naif paintings opened at an East Hampton gallery. (DB403)

OCTOBER 12, 1985: THE LOVE BOAT IS BROADCAST.

The Love Boat episode (#200), in which Andy Warhol appeared, was broadcast for the first time, having been filmed in March 1985. (DB398)


Ted Lange and Andy Warhol
in The Love Boat

OCTOBER 30, 1985: ANDY WARHOL FLIPS HIS WIG.

While signing copies of his newly published America book at a Rizzoli bookstore in the Soho area of Manhattan, Andy Warhol's wig was pulled off his head by a woman who threw it to a friend who escaped from the store. The woman was held until the police were called, but no charges were pressed. Fortunately, the Calvin Klein coat that Warhol was wearing had a hood which he used to cover his head while he continued to sign books. (AWD689)

Andy Warhol:

"I guess I can't put off talking about it any longer. Okay, let's get it over with. Wednesday. The day my biggest nightmare came true... I'd been signing America books for an hour or so when this girl in line handed me hers to sign and then she - did what she did... I don't know what held me back from pushing her over the balcony. She was so pretty and well-dressed. I guess I called her a bitch or something and asked how she could do it. But it's okay, I don't care - if a picture gets published, it does. There were so many people with cameras. Maybe it'll be on the cover of Details, I don't know... It was so shocking. It hurt. Physically... And I had just gotten another magic crystal which is supposed to protect me and keep things like this from happening..." (AWD689)

NOV. 30, 1985: GERI MILLER CALLS ANDY WARHOL.

GERI MILLER, star of TRASH, telephoned Andy Warhol from a women's shelter, screaming racist remarks to a nearby policeman and a social worker.

According to her, she was diagnosed with schizophrenia. One moment she told people that MARIO CUOMO was her father and then that MOHAMMAD ALI was her father.

Andy described her in his diaries as "A Jewish girl who came from New Jersey - in her TRASH days she was our most sensible superstar - then in the seventies she suddenly got crazy. One day she was very down to earth, worrying about her toplesss dancing career, and then the next week she showed up barefoot at 860 [the Factory], saying that the Mafia gave her LSD because she knew too much!" (AWD696)



1986

JAN. 1, 1986: ROBERT SCULL DIES.

Pop and minimalist art collector ROBERT C. SCULL died of diabetes (complicated by unprescribed drug use) at the age of seventy. (DB403)

JAN. 22, 1986: TINKERBELLE DIES.

TINKERBELLE (aka Tinkerbell), a "sixties Warholette” and “regular contributor to Interview" jumped out of a fifth floor window to her death. (UV251) A short biography of Tinkerbelle appears can be found at: http://www.warholstars.org/tinkerbelle.html.

JUNE 29, 1986: MARIO AMAYA DIES.

Magazine editor and museum director, MARIO AMAYA, who was the other person shot by VALERIE SOLANAS at the Factory, died in London of AIDS related illnesses at the age of fifty-two. (UV249/DB404)

SEPT. 1986: JON GOULD DIES.

Andy Warhol's ex-boyfriend, JON GOULD died of AIDS related pneumonia, salmonella bacteremia and cryptococcal meningitis in Los Angeles. A year earlier he had made a pilgrimage to Nepal with the hope of finding a way to allay the disease. (UV250-1/DB404/AWD760)



1987

WED. FEB. 4, 1987: ANDY WARHOL LEARNS OF INGRID SUPERSTAR'S DISAPPEARANCE.

After making her final film with Warhol - San Diego Surf - Ingrid left the Factory and eventually moved in with her mother.

Ultra Violet:

"Ingrid Superstar ...ballooned up to nearly two hundred pounds, floated in and out of prostitution and drug dealing, and was at one point judged mentally disabled... she went out to buy a pack of cigarettes and a newspaper, leaving her fur coat in the closet and her false teeth in the sink. She was never seen again." (UV250)


Ingrid Superstar

SAT. FEB. 14, 1987: ANDY WARHOL HAS A PAIN.

On February 14th, Andy Warhol rang his dermatologist, KAREN BURKE, about a pain in his right side that he had had for awhile. He had been in a lot of pain in Italy the previous month while there for a show of his Last Supper paintings.

Andy had been seeing Burke for collagen treatments to reduce his facial lines. He asked her for some Demerol, but she said she would only give him Tylenol with codeine provided that he went to see Dr. Clement Barone for a sonogram of his right side. Andy had the sonogram, but also took two Demerol that he happened to have with him. Dr. Barone told him his gallbladder was enlarged and he needed to see his doctor, Denton Cox. Andy, trying to avoid going to the hospital, did not call Dr. Cox. Even when the pain became so severe that he did finally see Dr. Cox, Andy refused to go into hospital when Cox told him he must have an operation. Eventually, Warhol had no choice - the pain was too great and he agreed to have the operation. (DD62-5)

SUNDAY FEB. 22, 1987 6:31 AM: ANDY WARHOL DIES.


One of the last photos taken of Andy Warhol. Five days
before his death he participated in a celebrity fashion
show at the Tunnel nightclub which also featured Miles
Davis. Warhol was in a considerable amount of pain
from his gallbladder during the show.

Warhol had checked in to room number 1204 of New York Hospital's Baker Pavillion under the name of Bob Roberts, listing his next of kin as FRED HUGHES. (DD5-10) Although the gallbladder operation went fine, Warhol died early in the morning - on Billy Name's birthday - from an unexpected heart attack. According to Vincent Fremont, Andy "was just getting back into filmmaking at the time of his death." (UW74)

From Warhol by David Bourdon:

"Warhol's surgery was performed on Saturday, February 21, between 8:45 a.m. and 12:10 p.m. The operation went smoothly, and the gallbladder - which proved to be gangrenous - was removed. He remained in stable condition as he spent three hours in a recovery room. At 3:45 p.m. he was taken to his own room. There, he was placed under the personal care of a private nurse who had been hired as a precaution on the recommendation of Dr. Cox, but selected by the hospital from a registry. Warhol was examined during the afternoon and again in the early evening by a senior attending physician, who noted nothing unusual. Alert and in good spirits, Andy watched television and, around 9:30 p.m. telephoned his housekeepers.

But as some point after midnight, Warhol's condition took a surprising turn for the worse. No one really knows what happened during the next four or five hours. According to later reports, the hospital's medical and nursing staffs neglected to look in on him periodically and to monitor his intravenous fluid intake and urinary output. No one adequately supervised the private-duty nurse, whose incomplete notes failed to record the patient's blood pressure, pulse rate, and other vital signs, as well as his dosages of morphine and other medications. as a result, Warhol's over hydration went unnoticed.

At 5:45 a.m. the private duty nurse, who later maintained she had been reading her Bible in Warhol's room, noticed that her patient had turned blue - he was cyanotic due to insufficient oxygen in his blood, and his pulse was feeble. Unable to waken him she contacted the floor nurse who in turn summoned an emergency cardiac team. They tried to resuscitate him but had difficulty inserting a tube in his windpipe because rigor mortis was already setting in. The team worked for close to an hour but all attempts to revive him failed. Warhol was pronounced dead at 6:31 a.m. on February 22, 1987." (DB408-9)

The Washington Post's article on the death of Andy Warhol is at:
www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/style/longterm/review96/fishotandywarhol.htm

After Warhol died, the District Attorney investigated his death and concluded there was no evidence of criminal responsibility. However, the New York State Department of Health also investigated and concluded that "the active medical staff of the hospital did not assure the maintenance of the proper quality of all medication and treatment provided to patient." (DD96) Warhol's estate brought a wrongful-death lawsuit against the hospital which was settled out of court for $3 million. The money, less the legal fees, went to Warhol's two brothers as part of a deal to guarantee that they would not contest Andy's will in which he left them $250,000.00.

Warhol's estate was eventually decided by the courts to be worth, conservatively, over half a billion dollars: $509,979,278.00. (DD257) The Warhol Foundation contested this figure in court and it was eventually reduced to $228 million. (AWM13) It was to the Foundation's advantage to have a lower evaluation of Warhol's paintings because it meant they would have to pay less in legal fees to the attorney for the estate who was on a percentage of 2.5% of the value of the estate. (DD116) Also, The Foundation was legally obligated to award 5 percent of its assets for charitable grants and a lower valuation meant that they would have to pay out less money. (DD)

In order to back up their legal challenge for a lesser evaluation, the Foundation argued in court that Warhol was not as great an artist as some independent experts believed him to be. Art dealer Andre Emmerich testified for the Foundation that Warhol's work was likely to fade into obscurity because the subjects of his paintings (Marilyn Monroe, Elvis etc...) would eventually be forgotten. The Foundation paid Emmerich $4,000 a day to testify plus $3,500 for preparatory work. (DD251)

Warhol had stipulated in his will that the Foundation's directors should be Fred Hughes, Vincent Fremont and John Warhola. In 1988, Fred Hughes hired Arch Gilles as a consultant to the Foundation. Gilles, who was president of the World Policy Institute, took the job even though he admitted that he knew nothing about art. (DD138). He became president of the Foundation in March 1990. (DD154) Under Gilles, the daily running costs of the Foundation increased from $400,000 to $5 million a year. When Gilles first became president, the Foundation's bank balance was $25 million. After three years of his presidency, only $6 million remained. (DD259)

Fred Hughes resigned from the Foundation on February 11, 1992 after being told by the Board of Directors that if he didn't resign, he would be voted out. Hughes had been critical of the Foundation to the press and the Board wanted him out. (DD193)


Andy Warhol's Grave (2006)
(Photo: Pierre Skene)

FEBRUARY 26, 1987: ANDY WARHOL IS BURIED.

Andy Warhol was buried in St. John the Baptist Byzantine Cemetery, just outside of Pittsburgh.

A wake for Warhol was held the previous day, Wednesday, after preparation of the body by the Thomas P. Kunsak Funeral Home in Pittsburgh. Andy's corpse wore a "simple black cashmere suit, a paisley tie, one of his platinum wigs and sunglasses. He held in his hands, which lay clasped together on his chest, a black prayer book and a single red rose."

There were no celebrities or socialites at the funeral. Fred Hughes had told anyone who enquired about the funeral that the Warhola family only wanted family members to attend. However, the Warhola family had never made such a request. A small contingent of Factory employees were allowed to go and it included PAIGE POWELL, PAT HACKETT, SAM BOLTON, JAY SHRIVER, VINCENT FREMONT, SHELLY FREMONT and BRIGID BERLIN (who was in London at the time of Warhol's death, but flew back to the states as soon as she was notified). (DD117)

APRIL 1, 1987: ANDY WARHOL HAS A MASS ON APRIL FOOLS DAY.

Warhol's memorial mass was held at St. Patrick's Cathedral.

BILLY NAME attended the all-Catholic memorial service, "with all the associated hoi poloi, and magazine Vanity Fair covered the event. In their Warhol death article, they referred to Billy by writing and who should show up but Billy Name, the speed freak of the sixties. Billy was non plussed." (B)

HOLLY WOODLAWN attended the service but asked the cab to drop her off a few blocks away from the church to avoid the media. She was invited into the VIP section by FRED HUGHES but declined in order to avoid walking down the long aisle with people straining their necks to see who was coming in.

YOKO ONO read the eulogy even though, according to Holly, “Andy never liked her in the first place.” Holly skipped the luncheon afterwards preferring not to see the relics of her past, and instead escaped out of a side exit and went straight to Saks Fifth Avenue across the street where she bought “enough makeup to paint the Statue of Liberty.” (HW302)

At the postservice luncheon, with VELVET UNDERGROUND recordings playing in the background, BILLY NAME drew LOU REED and JOHN CALE into conversation with each other, easing the tension that existed between them since their musical break up. (LR365) They eventually collaborated on Songs for Drella, a tribute to Andy Warhol, which was released in April 1990 and eventually led to the Velvets getting back together. (LR370-1)

MAY 28, 1987: CHARLES LUDLAM DIES.

CHARLES LUDLAM, co-founder of the Ridiculous Theatrical Company, died of AIDs related pneumonia. (UV251)

JULY 23, 1987: STAR OF BLOW JOB DIES.

DeVerne Bookwalter (aka DeVeren Bookwalter) was the person who was being given the blow-job by Willard Maas (off-screen). (AD41) He died of stomach cancer at the age of 47 at St. Vincent's Hospital in New York. Surviving members of his family included his wife, acress Ruth Kidder, and a son in Manhattan, County Wilder Bookwalter. (NY Times obituary, July 31, 1987)

1987: MARY WORONOV VISITS ONDINE FOR THE LAST TIME.

Ondine was living with his mother in Queens, making money by showing Warhol films on the college circuit and talking about his Factory days. MARY WORONOV, who was living in Los Angeles pursuing her film/writing career, went to see him when he appeared at the Nuart cinema.

Mary thought that now that Ondine was "no longer surrounded by the fabulous chaotic speed freaks” he seemed “adrift on a desolate sea of uncomprehending faces.” Ondine was older now and appeared “very alone”. Mary thought the audience might just see him as “a ridiculous old fag.” (MW150-1)

Ondine and Mary spoke to each other for a few moments after the lecture, but Mary's boyfriend was desperate to leave and so Ondine and Mary's conversation was short. It would be the last time that Mary would see Ondine alive.

NOV. 1987: ULTRA VIOLET CALLS VALERIE SOLANAS.

Ultra got Valerie's phone number from the Social Security office by pretending to be her sister. Solanas was living in northern California at the time. Ultra did not tell Valerie who she is, but asked her if she had written anything else since the SCUM manifesto.

When Valerie said no, Ultra asked her what she was doing now, she responded “Nothing,” then added “I’m not in this place under that name.” Ultra asked what name she was using and Valerie told her "Onz Loh."

Valerie asked Ultra if she had a copy of the “newspaper edition” of the SCUM Manifesto, because she didn't have a copy anymore and the book edition was full of mistakes. (UV188/9) Ultra told her she didn't have a copy and then asked her:


“Do you know that Andy Warhol died?”
Valerie’s voice "perked up". “No, I don’t.”
“He died last February.”
“Oh, really.”
“He went to the hospital for an operation and died two days later.”
“Oh.”
“How do you feel about that that?”
“I don’t feel anything. Say, can you write to the copyright office for a copy of the manifesto?”
Ultra responded, “I’ll see," and then asked Valerie, "What happened to all the people in the sixties movement?”
“They died.”
“Do you remember Ultra Violet?”
“Yes.”
“What happened to her?”
“She died too.”

DECEMBER 1987: FIRST LICENSING DEAL WITH THE WARHOL FOUNDATION IS ANNOUNCED.



Andy Warhol and Roger L. Schlaifer,
President of Schlaifer Nance & Company, Inc.
at a company party at the Pierre Hotel in 1985

From the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette (17 December 1987):

"The estate of Andy Warhol has signed an agreement with the marketing company responsible for the phenomenal success of Cabbage Patch Kids dolls, giving the company exclusive rights to use the artist's name and works in products possibly ranging from sweaters and scarves to watches, calendars, datebooks and gift wrapping paper... The executor of the estate, Frederick Hughes, who was Warhol's longtime friend and manager, said negotiations had started two years ago between the artist and Schlaifer Nance & Co, the Atlanta-based licensing company... Under the terms of the contract, the licensing profits are to be split between the agency and the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, established after his death to aid artists and arts groups."

Warhol had initially met the president of the company, Roger L. Schlaifer, when Schlaifer commissioned Warhol to do portraits of the Cabbage Patch Kids. The 1987 licensing deal would, however, later end up in litigation during the 1990s.

Roger L. Schlaifer:

"We had a phenomenal comprehensive program ready to launch in Japan. The first product of which was fabulous perfume program with Shiseido called Angelique. It utilized Andy's 50s drawings of angels and was promoted with much of Warhol's greatest 50's work. We did a few Gold Books as calendars that won awards in Japan - and another fabulous celebrity and $$$ calendar that won awards in Germany."



1988

APRIL 26, 1988: VALERIE SOLANAS DIES OF PNEUMONIA.

MAY 3, 1988: ANDY WARHOL'S POSSESSIONS ARE SOLD.

A ten day sale of Andy’s possessions at Sotheby's raised $25,313,238. It was the largest single collection sold at Sotheby's since it was founded in 1744. 60,000 people visited the auction house to view the collection over a ten day period which began on April 23rd. (DD131)

JULY 18, 1988: NICO DIES.

NICO died in an Ibiza hospital a few hours after falling off a bicycle. A coroner’s report noted that she suffered a cerebral hemmorage. She was survived by her son ARI. (UV248/LR366)

Ari Delon [son of Nico and Alain Delon]:

"When my mother died, Alan Wise took me to the probate registry in order to inherit the royalties, and the debts. When I got my mum's royalties for the first time I spent the money on smack. I was hooked. I was taking a gram a day. So I called my psychiatric doctor in Paris and I spent two weeks in the hospital. I got off heroin... Now I'm trying to get back into myself. I'm not yet strong enough, but one day, when I am, I will confront my father and I will do it for the sake of my mother." (PM498)

LATE SUMMER 1988: FRED HUGHES GETS WORSE.

FRED HUGHES legs failed to function while he was on a hiking trip in Costa Rica. Several years previously he had been diagnosed as having multiple sclerosis which had remained in remission until now. (DD136)



1989

1989: ONDINE DIES.

Ondine died of liver disease in Queens. (MW151)

JULY 1989: STEVE RUBELL DIES.

Rubell died of complications from hepatitis and septic shock at Beth Israel Hospital in Manhattan. (SL61)



1990

JUNE 1990: THE VELVET UNDERGROUND RE-UNITE.

The Cartier Foundation invited the original members of the VELVET UNDERGROUND, along with BILLY NAME, ULTRA VIOLET and DAVID BOURDON, to Jouy-en Josas in France, for the inauguration of the Andy Warhol Exposition where JOHN CALE and LOU REED were going to perform Songs for Drella. After a few songs from Drella, LOU REED surprised the invited audience journalists and arts people, by having STERLING MORRISON and MO TUCKER join them onstage for the first time since splitting up. They performed a seventeen minute version of Heroin. The band officially re-formed in February 1993 and agreed to do a short European tour. (LR396-98)

JULY 4, 1990: BEVERLY GRANT CONRAD DIES.

Beverly Grant Conrad, who appeared in Warhol's Batman Dracula and 13 Most Beautiful Women, died of cancer at the age of 54 in London Ohio. Beverly appeared in Warhol's films under her maiden name, Beverly Grant. She later married Tony Conrad, a pioneer in experimental film and music. Her ashes were spread at a nearby farm that she had hoped would be turned into a hospice for terminally ill cancer patients. (JRC)



1991

1991: GINO PISERCHIO DIES

Pianist/composer GINO PISERCHIO (sometimes spelled Peschio), star of BEAUTY #2, died of AIDS. (VY142)


Paul Jasmine, Gino Piserchio & Unknown man

to: JULY 17, 1965: BEAUTY #2 OPENS

to filmography



1992

JANUARY 1992: BILLY NAME VISITS GERARD MALANGA.

Billy Name, now living in Poughkeepsie, New York visited GERARD MALANGA, now living 45 miles from Billy in Great Barrington. According to Gerard, Billy confessed that he "out of jealousy" crossed out Malanga's name from the photo-ready mechanical for Warhol's Index Book (1967) while Gerard was living in Rome. Previously, Malanga had always assumed that Andy had excised his credit from the book. (GMW130)



1994

1994: ANDY WARHOL IS ELECTED.

Warhol was elected posthumously to the Art Directors Club Hall of Fame. (AWM60)

MAY 25, 1994: ARTIST JOE BRAINARD DIES OF AIDS

Warhol filmed a Screen Test of Brainard on March 3, 1965. (AD42) Some of Brainard's work incorporated the Nancy comic strip which Warhol had also appropriated in the early 1960s.

AUGUST 16, 1994: HENRY GELDZAHLER DIES OF CANCER. (VY129)



1995

1995: STERLING MORRISON DIES OF CANCER.
(www.laweekly.com/ink/02/27/andy-pile.php)



1996

1996: I SHOT ANDY WARHOL OPENS.

Directed by Mary Harron, with original music by John Cale, the film featured Jared Harris as Andy Warhol, Stephen Dorff as Candy Darling and Donovan Leitch (son of folk singer Donovan) as Gerard Malanga. Producer Christine Vachon kept a diary of the shooting of the film. Harron had interviewed Warhol in 1980 for Melody Maker magazine.

JULY 17, 1996: JED JOHNSON DIES.

JED JOHNSON, Andy Warhol's ex-boyfriend died in the TWA 800 plane crash en route from New York to Paris where he was going to check out fabrics as an interior designer. Since he was travelling first class he was killed instantly when the plane split in two from an electrical fire - unlike the passengers seated at the back of the plane who survived the initial explosion only to be catapulted to their death while fully conscious. (www.coupland.com/coupland/drool/00_01_07b.html)

NOVEMBER 11, 1996: RUFUS COLLINS DIES OF AIDS.

Rufus appeared in Couch, a Kiss film, Batman Dracula, Soap Opera and a Screen Test. He later went on to appear in numerous Hollywood films including The Rocky Horror Picture Show and The Hunger starring David Bowie. His cremated ashes are held by the Rocky Horror Preservation Foundation.
(www.sweet-transvestites.com/uk/RHPS/Bios/trannies-uk.htm)



1997

1997: THE ANDY WARHOL MUSEUM GETS THE FILMS.

The Andy Warhol museum acquired ownership of the rights to Andy Warhol's entire film and video work from the Andy Warhol Foundation of the Visual Arts. The museum's collection included 273 preserved Warhol films and almost 4000 videotapes.
(www.warhol.org/collections/film_video.html)



2000

JANUARY 2000: UP YOUR ASS OPENS.

Valerie Solanas' play Up Your Ass is finally given its world premiere in San Francisco, followed by a New York premiere at Performance Space 122 in February 2001.



2001

JAN 14, 2001: FRED HUGHES DIES.

FRED HUGHES, Andy Warhol's business manager, died of complications from multiple sclerosis.

SEPT. 11, 2001: EMPIRE STATE BECOMES TALLEST BUILDING (AGAIN).

After terrorists flew two planes into the World Trade Center, the Empire State Building, star of Andy Warhol's film EMPIRE, once again became the tallest building in New York.

OCT. 2, 2001: PAT AST DIES.

Pat Ast was the overweight landlady of the motel that Joe Dallesandro's character stayed at in HEAT. She died of natural causes in West Hollywood. (NYT1)

DEC. 16, 2001: LESTER PERSKY DIES.

Persky was the man who introduced Warhol to both Baby Jane Holzer and Edie Sedgwick. He was a television/film producer whose credits included Taxi Driver and Shampoo. He died in Los Angeles.



2002

MAY 15 - 26, 2002: HOLLY WOODLAWN IS FETED AT CANNES.

HOLLY WOODLAWN, JOE DALLESANDRO and PAUL MORRISSEY attended the Cannes Festival for a special tribute to Paul Morrissey.

SEPT. 7, 2002: CYRINDA FOXE DIES.

CYRINDA FOXE (born Kathleen Hetzekian) appeared in Andy Warhol's BAD. She died of a cancerous brain tumor in New York. (IMDB)

SEPT. 27, 2002: CHARLES HENRI FORD DIES.

CHARLES HENRI FORD , editor during the 1940s of View magazine, died at the age of 94 while recovering from a fall.

Andy Warhol met Charles Henri Ford at a party given by actress Ruth Ford in the early sixties. Warhol and Ford became friends and attended underground movie screenings together. Ford also introduced Warhol to Gerard Malanga and was with Malanga and Warhol when Warhol bought his first movie camera at Peerless Camera in New York.

OCT. 18, 2002: RICHARD BERNSTEIN DIES.

Richard Bernstein, whose celebrity portraits appeared on the covers of Interview magazine, died at the age of 62 at his home in Manhattan. According to his friend, Lester Glassner, Bernstein died of complications from AIDS. (http://www.arizonarepublic.com/arizona/articles/1103deaths03.html)

Bernstein made a brief appearance in the documentary about Brigid Berlin - Pie In The Sky (2000). In the film, Brigid came across him outside the Chelsea Hotel (where he continued to live) while she was being interviewed.


A photograph of Richard Bernstein painting a
Times Square billboard from the December
1974 issue of Interview magazine.
(photo: Bill King)



2004

JAN. 2004: HOLLY WOODLAWN IS HOSPITALISED.

HOLLY WOODLAWN was admitted to intensive care after complications developed from an operation on a broken arm and shoulder resulting from a fall. Her doctors warned her that she must stay away from alcohol. The New York Post incorrectly reported that she was in a coma.

FEB. 2004: STEPHEN SPROUSE DIES.

Fashion designer STEPHEN SPROUSE, featured on Andy Warhol's Fifteen Minutes television show, died of lung cancer at the age of fifty. A private ceremony was held by close friends who covered his coffin with graffiti style messages and then left a permanent ink marker in his coffin so that he could "forever write graffiti, no matter where he is." (www.statepress.com)

APRIL 2, 2004: SUPERSTAR IN A HOUSEDRESS WORLD PREMIERE.

Craig Highberger's documentary on Jackie Curtis, Superstar in a Housedress, has its world premiere as part of the London Lesbian and Gay Film Festival in England.

AUGUST 14, 2004: THE RETURN OF HOLLY WOODLAWN.

After surviving intensive care Holly Woodlawn makes a comeback, performing her cabaret act at the Fez Under Time cafe in New York.

NOVEMBER 16, 2004: THE ANDY WARHOL BRIDGE.

The Allegheny County Council renames the Seventh Street Bridge in Pittsburgh after Andy Warhol.

DECEMBER 2004: IVY NICHOLSON MAKES A MOVIE.

Ivy Nicholoson returns to Manhattan to direct her movie, The Dead Life.

DECEMBER 17, 2004: TOM WESSELMAN DIES.

Pop artist Tom Wesselman died at the age of 73 after complications following heart surgery.

DECEMBER 28, 2004: SUSAN SONTAG DIES.

Susan Sontag died of leukemia at the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in Manhattan at the age of 71.



2005

JANUARY 2, 2005: THE DEAD LIFE IS SCREENED.

Ivy Nicholson's film The Dead Life is screened at the Gershwin Hotel in New York.

JANUARY 7, 2005: SUZI FRANKFURT DIES.

Suzi Frankfurt, who collaborated with Andy Warhol on Wild Raspberries, died at the Hebrew Home for the Aged at Riverdale, in the Bronx. She was 73 years old. She had moved to the Home for the Aged several years ago, from Norfolk, Connecticut, after treatment for a brain tumor.

JANUARY 25, 2005: PHILIP JOHNSON DIES.

Architect Philip Johnson died at the age of 98 in his famous glass house in Connecticut.

JUNE 12, 2005: DAVID WHITNEY DIES.

Whitney died of lung and bone cancer at the age of 66.