Ultra Violet - Famous for 15 Minutes: My Years with Andy Warhol

One of Andy Warhols superstars recalls the birth of an art movementand the death of an icon
In this audacious tell-all memoir, Ultra Violet, born Isabelle Collin Dufresne, relives her years with Andy Warhol at the Factory and all of the madness that accompanied the sometimes-violent delivery of pop art.
Starting with her botched seduction of the shy, near-blind, bald, gay albino from Pittsburgh, Ultra Violet installs herself in Warhols world, becoming his muse for years to come. But she does more than just inspire; she also watches, listens, and remembers, revealing herself to be an ideal tour guide to the assembly line for art, sex, drugs, and film that is the Factory. Famous for 15 Minutes drips with juicy details about celebrities and cultural figures in vignettes filled with surreptitious cocaine spoons, shameless sex, and insights into perhaps the most recognizable but least intimately known artist in the world.
Beyond the legendary artist himself are the throngs of Factory regularsBilly Name, Baby Jane Holzer, Brigid Polkand the more transient celebrities who make appearancesBob Dylan, Jane Fonda, Jimi Hendrix, John Lennon.
Delightfully bizarre and always entertaining, filled with colorful scenes and larger-than-life personalities, this dishy page-turner is shot through with the authors vivid imagery and piercing observations of a cultural idol and his eclectic, voyeuristic, altogether riveting world.