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"The Great Dancer"
12x16 acrylic,ink on vellum
Born into a gilded fairy tale of high society royalty akin to what F. Scott Fitzgerald spun into "The Great Gatsby", pretty little Edie had a successful attorney father and a beautiful socialite mother who's dowry was plucked from the ample fortunes of the Bouvier empire. Edie chirped and charmed her way through childhood with dance and French lessons from the finest schools in NYC. Beautiful teenage fashion model Edie was a much sought after piece of ass among uber rich titans of industry: her dance card was cluttered with names like Joe Kennedy Jr., Howard Hughes, J. Paul Getty, and later the married Secretary of the Interior Julius Albert Krug.Big Edie died not long after the film as released. She reportedly received none of her promised fee for participating. Little Edie died in 2002, still being cared for through the kindness of others - and with a few loyal "fans".
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After purchasing her book "The Beautiful People's Beauty Book" several years ago, I have been a big Princess Pignatelli fan. Her candid quips about being a fabulous European socialite in the swinging 1970's are purely irresistible. Completely free of shame for her awesome hair, body, face and wealth, she would lay it on the reader - unabashed.
She was no hausfrau, and she made no bones about it. And if her volumes indicate her demeanor at all, she didn't give a flying fuck who thought she was bitchy.
I learned awhile back that Princess Luciana Pignatelli had passed on. In months past, details of her death were sketchy (even with diligent and compulsive googling), and just today I happened on an article that described her suicide with gin and pills after learning her investments had taken a huge dump on her perfect Italian bone structure. Distraught over being not only old, but poor - two conditions she could never entertain - she desperately ended her own life.
I say a heartfelt ciao bella, princess. You gave me big wonderful taste of what it was like to be you.
Here's a few Pignatellisms I've collected, previously published on my page Feelin' Pretty in 2005.
"You see, I'm very gourmande, which means I should be given all the more credit for not getting fat."
"In my ex-husband's house, everyone was unhappy, even the parrot. It was my fault, too. With two strong personalities, either you pull together or you destroy each other. What does this have to do with beauty? Lots!"
"It does not matter what you start with, try to get by on nature alone past 30 and you are finished."
"For heightened perception without drugs plus rapid weight loss, nothing beats the oldest known treatment for obesity: total starvation.""Every woman over 30 needs a homosexual in her life."
Join the Princess Luciana Pignatelli Appreciation Society on Flickr, which is run by another big fan.
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