Model: The Ugly Business of Beautiful Women by Gross Michael

Author:Gross, Michael [Gross, Michael]
Language: eng
Format: epub, mobi
Publisher: It Books
Published: 2011-10-18T06:00:00+00:00

Ingo Thouret (left) and Pat Cleveland photographed by Rose Hartman

Ingo Thouret and Pat Cleveland by Rose Hartman

Ultimately Hall was replaced in Antonio’s affections. No one was exactly monogamous. “Pat Cleveland and Antonio used to disappear for days and lock themselves up with some boy they’d found,” says Ramos. “Pat was a bit of a nympho, and Antonio was, too.” Once, in Venice, Antonio and Juan gave Karl Lagerfeld a birthday party at Harry’s Bar. “Pat stripped naked on the tables,” showing everyone the heart she’d shaved into her pubic hair, Ramos recalls. Harry’s waiters scurried about, he continues, “pulling down the shades.”

Cleveland says she never had steady boyfriends. “I was married to my career. I had fun with the boys, and I stayed out of trouble. But finally I got real tired, and I had to go off by myself. I cut off my hair, put on my backpack, and went to Egypt dressed as a boy. That’s the kind of stuff you have to do.” Cleveland ended up moving to London, where she partied with the gay crowd and went out with Mick Jagger. While she was there, she met Zoli, and she joined up with him and returned to America, ending up in Los Angeles, where she tried acting and kept playing. “I had some nice boyfriends,” she says. “Jack, Warren, Ryan. All of them. Look, I grew up with the Pill. You took one, and you could have fun. So it was love ’em and leave ’em even when they tried to attach themselves to you. I’m very independent. I like to make my own scene. I don’t want to be anybody’s shadow.”

Meanwhile, back in Paris, Claude Haddad was finding more models. Gaby Wagner, who now runs the Zoom agency in Paris, joined Euro-Planning for several months, “until he stole so much money from me, I ran away,” she says. Though Haddad denies financial irregularities (“Elite don’t pay any commission,” he says. “I am white; they are black”), Wagner wasn’t the only one who felt ripped off. “Claude used people, and Antonio used him,” says Paul Caranicas, an artist who was part of their set. “We found out what a slime he was a few months later when he wouldn’t pay Jerry.” Haddad “never told me how much money I was making, and he never paid me,” Hall confirms. “I’d get the cover of some magazine, an ad for some gasoline company, and he would just give me a hundred francs when I would cry.”

The agency wasn’t entirely useless. “I met Helmut Newton through them,” she says. “We bought all these leather clothes and whips and chains, and I was throwing my hair and cracking a whip for Photo magazine, and at the end of the day I started to cry. Helmut said, ‘Why are you crying?’ And I said, ‘I think this is pornography.’ And he said, ‘No, this is art!’ And I said, ‘But I really want to do fashion,’ and he said, ‘OK, if

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