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Original Manhattan scenester picks up the pieces, puts his instinct for glamour to good use.
"He worked much harder than I did," Jay Johnson said [of his twin brother and Warhol's lover] Jed and his ambition. "I played much harder." Jay Johnson drank heavily, favored cocaine, wore makeup, modeled and helped paint Warhol's pictures for the Factory. "Eric Boman also wore makeup," Mr. Johnson said of the fashion photographer, who is one of his oldest acquaintances. Another fashion acquaintance, Marina Schiano, called them "the two lesbians."
"We thought we were fabulously beautiful, and so masculine," Mr. Johnson said. He also became friendly with some of the most dissolute citizens of the century, including Marianne Faithfull, the singer, and Henrietta Moraes, a British beauty and bohemian who was portrayed by the painter Francis Bacon naked with a needle in her arm (which was artistic license, as she was investigating LSD at the time), went to prison for burglary after her marriage to an Indian poet ended, and spent her last days in a single room in Chelsea with her dachshund, Max.
Link: The Surviving Twin, Rearranging the Furniture - New York Times.
Jay Johnson and his twin brother, Jed arrive at the Warhol Factory in New York from Minnesota, above.
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