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Elsa Peretti, Star Designer of Elegant Jewelry, Dies at 80

NYT: “After arriving in New York in the late 1960s, Ms. Peretti was an immediate hit as a runway model for designers like Halston, Issey Miyake and Giorgio di Sant’Angelo. One day she decided that she wanted to try her hand at designing a piece of jewelry, inspired by something she had seen at a flea market.”

The Washington Post: “Peretti partied with Andy Warhol, Bianca Jagger, and Elizabeth Taylor, and by her own admission spent years subsisting on ‘little more than caviar, cocaine, vodka, and cigarettes.’” 

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Scotty Bowers, Who Wrote of Providing Sex to Stars, Dies at 96

“My operation — if you want to call it that — was not a prostitution ring,” he wrote. “I was simply providing a service to those who wanted it and, as recorded history has shown, throughout the ages there has always been a need for good, old-fashioned, high-quality sex.”

NYT obituary, Out feature, Documentary trailer