Jane Holzer

Jane Brukenfeld grew up in Palm Beach, the daughter of real estate investor Carl Brukenfeld. His wealth came from Florida real estate, particularly in Miami and West Palm Beach. She grew up in a Jewish household and attended Palm Beach High School. She attended Finch Junior College in Manhattan but "flunked out of college on purpose to become a model," she recounted. In 1963, her modeling career began to take off in London where she was photographed by David Bailey. She was a young society wife when she was introduced to artist Andy Warhol in 1964. Holzer later ran into Warhol on Madison Avenue and he asked to make films with him. Known for her mane of teased hair, she was highlighted in Vogue magazine's October 1964 issue. Movies she appeared in included Andy Warhol's Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), Batman Dracula (1964), and Camp (1965). In 1966, Holzer was named one of the "fashion revolutionaries" in New York by ''Women's Wear Daily'', alongside Edie Sedgwick, Tiger Morse, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Rudi Gernreich, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent, and Mary Quant. Holzer appeared in the independently produced Ciao! Manhattan (1972). She co-produced the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman. Holzer became a prominent modern art collector and a real estate tycoon. Holzer also owns a significant amount of Palm Beach real estate, notably the restaurant Le Bilboquet, where she and Philippe Delgrange are business partners. In 2014, Holzer was the subject of an exhibition titled "To Jane, Love Andy" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach. ==Personal life==

In 1962, 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. She was one of the attendants at the wedding of Mary McFadden and Philip Harari in 1964. Her son Charles “Rusty” Holzer was born in 1969. He competed for the United States Virgin Islands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in show jumping, and his wife Ashley Holzer is a dressage rider who won a bronze medal for Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics. == In pop culture ==

Holzer is the subject of "Girl of the Year" in Tom Wolfe's The Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby (1965). Holzer was parodied as Baby Jane Towser in the 1967 Batman episode "Pop/Flop Goes the Joker", where she was played by Diana Ivarson. She is referenced twice (as Baby Jane) in the 1972 Roxy Music single "Virginia Plain". ==References==