Baby Jane Holzer

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BABY JANE HOLZER
 
 
Jane Holzer  (née Bruckenfeld; born October 23, 1940) is an American art collector and film producer who was previously an actress, model, and Warhol superstar.  She was often known by the nickname Baby Jane Holzer.  The daughter of real estate investor Carl Bruckenfeld, she married Leonard Holzer, an heir to a New York real estate fortune.  Holzer was noted for including art projects in his developments, particularly at the Smith Haven Mall.  Movies she appeared in included Andy Warhol’s Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), and Camp (1965), and the independently produced Ciao! Manhattan (1972).  She co-produced the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman.  Holzer is the subject of “Girl of the Year” in Tom Wolfe’s The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965) and is referenced twice in the 1972 Roxy Music single “Virginia Plain”.  (More from Wikipedia)
 
 

Goldie and the Gingerbreads was hired to provide the music for a party in 1964 in honor of Andy Warhol’s protegé Baby Jane Holzer; other guests included the Rolling Stones.  Ahmet Ertegun of Atlantic Records was also present and promptly signed the band.  

 

(October 2013)

 

Last edited: March 22, 2021