All about Eve Babitz: The legendary Hollywood icon who once posed naked with Marcel Duchamp and had affairs with Warren Beatty, Harrison Ford and Jim Morrison opens up about freak accident that ‘melted pantyhose to her legs’ and covered her body in burns

At 76-years-old, Eve Babitz, the Los Angeles icon and underground legend is having quite the revival. In the bloom of her youth, Babitz was famously photographed for Life Magazine playing nude chess with the artist Marcel Duchamp. By the time she turned 20, the voluptuous ‘it’ girl had already bedded some of the world’s most celebrated men. Born to a bohemian family in the Hollywood Hills, she cut a sensuous swath through Tinsel Town during the 1960s and 1970s: ‘I was 23 and a daughter of Hollywood, alive with groupie fever, wanting to f*** my way through rock ‘n’ roll and drink tequila and take uppers and downers, keeping joints rolled and lit, a regular customer at the clap clinic, a groupie prowling the nights of summer.’ Eve Babitz (pictured in 1959) was raised Hollywood, California by a mother who was an artist and a father who was a musician in the 20th Century Fox orchestra, her godfather was the composer Igor Stravinsky. Acknowledging her sex appeal she wrote in her 1974 memoir: ‘I looked like Brigitte Bardot and I was Stravinsky’s goddaughter’ Her cool and unapologetic honesty brought Eve some much deserved early literary attention when she published her… Read full this story

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