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became pregnant by yet another man in 1958. While in the hospital in Paris on June 6, 1958, she received news that Suzy and her father had been in a serious car accident. Suzy's father had apparently not seen or heard an oncoming train and drove onto the tracks where it slammed into his car. They were on their way to visit Suzy's mother, who was in the hospital with cancer. Their father was killed. Suzy's arms were broken and she remained hospitalized for three months. Dorian then had her gynecologist, Dr. Serge Bordat, abort her baby. Days later, she married Dr. Bordat.
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offices. During a solo ski vacation to Klosters, Switzerland, over Christmas 1960, 43-year-old Dorian slept with four men in one week in an attempt to get pregnant. Three months later, Serge found out through one of Dorian's models that she was pregnant by one of these men. In September 1961, Dorian gave birth to her fifth child, Miranda, in France. She suspected that a young ski instructor at Klosters was the father. She then divorced Serge.
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drug addiction, and she sent him to live with her sister Suzy in California briefly. He was told to leave when it was discovered that he was continuing to use drugs in their home. Kim then returned to New York, and only six months after Dorian had resettled and reunited with him, he jumped 33 floors from his apartment window to his death, leaving a suicide note behind. Then, on March 6, 1990, Anthony de Portago died of
478:, visited a friend in an apartment near hers. Capote was fascinated by Dorian's lifestyle of non-stop men, coming and goings, and having a store across the street handle her phone calls, since there were no answering machines back in the early 1950s. He struck up a friendship with Dorian and called her "Happy-go-lucky." Capote's character Holly Golightly in his famous 1958 novel 315:. In her autobiography, Dorian claimed that she was born in 1920, and graduated from high school early in 1935, at the age of 15. She claimed this was because she loved learning, and she took many classes at once since the school was supposedly overcrowded. But this later proved untrue. She also wrote that she was a 17-year-old college 573:
black hair and bright blue eyes. The Fords were shocked during their initial meeting to see that Suzy was almost six inches taller than Dorian and had a larger frame, bright red hair, freckles, and green eyes. In the 1950s, Suzy would become even more famous than Dorian and would go on to be a movie and television actress.
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agency making $ 25 per hour. Dorian told Ford she believed Suzy should be making $ 40 per hour. The Fords' agency was only two years old, so they were anxious to represent a famous model like Dorian. They agreed to meet Dorian and Suzy for lunch. Dorian was thin, had an extremely small waist, and had
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car race in Italy on May 8, 1957, and Carroll was supposed to sign their divorce papers on May 9. Instead, on May 8, Dorian received a phone call from his mother Olga, informing Dorian that Fon's tire on his Ferrari race car had blown up because he did not stop in time for a tire change. Fon and his
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During her marriage to Roger Mehle, Dorian became fed up with Harry Conover's agency. Conover's phones were often busy and it took a very long time for the clients to pay the models for their work. She decided to start her own modeling agency called the Fashion Bureau, and devised a "voucher system"
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original. The dress had hand-sewn silver sequins on it, and it took so long to create that only the front of the dress was finished in time to be photographed for the ad. The back was non-existent and held in place with safety pins. Dorian also had a silver streak put in her black hair. The original
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In 1964, 47-year-old Dorian met 23-year-old Israeli writer Iddo Ben-Gurion and they were married. She then discovered Iddo was a drug addict who was embezzling money from her modeling agencies. She divorced him in 1966, and she remained single for the remainder of her life. Dorian eventually had to
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Dorian's parents thought modeling was not respectable, so Dorian used only her first and middle name during her career. When Dorian became an enormous success though, they thought it was acceptable that their youngest daughter Suzy use the Parker last name when she also became a famous model. Their
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asking her to work as his office manager, so she agreed to return to New York, which was also where her 21-year-old son Kim was living. Kim's half-brother Anthony de Portago also lived in New York and the two had become good friends. However, Dorian soon discovered that Kim had developed a serious
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In 1957, Dorian returned to Florida and visited Young at her parents’ home. She then took her daughter, fled to Paris, and remained mostly in France for the following 21 years. Dorian's two older children had graduated high school by this time. She continued to run her modeling agency in Paris and
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that Dorian had a son with Portago and she was estranged from her sister because of it. Dorian was shocked that Suzy leaked this secret, and Dorian's parents only learned about the child's existence from reading about it in the newspaper. They were furious and told Dorian that she would never have
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Although Dorian already had four children, she wanted another baby, but Serge claimed he was too young. Dorian moved out of their apartment, but they remained legally married. She kept busy with her Paris modeling agency, which now had branches in Hamburg and London, and often traveled to these
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Dorian closed her agency when she married. She then telephoned Eileen Ford and told her that she would join the Ford Agency if they also signed her 15-year-old sister, Suzy Parker, sight-unseen. Suzy, 15 years younger than Dorian, had already been working for the
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method for paying the models. With this innovative system, the modeling agency would pay the models weekly, instead of the models having to wait to be paid directly by the clients. Often it took companies weeks, months, or even years to pay models for their work.
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co-driver Edmund Nelson were mutilated and killed in a horrifying crash. As well, when the tire exploded and he lost control of the car, nine spectators, including five children, were killed due to the accident. This catastrophe ended the Mille Miglia forever.
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After college, Dorian worked as a file clerk at a department store in Manhattan and as a tabulator, keeping track of radio program ratings. Dorian found that she had an aptitude for math, mechanical engineering, and drawing. She began to go to night school at
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Living in France with her baby son Kim, Dorian was nearing 40. Her career as a model was coming to a close, so she began the first legal modeling agency in France to support her son. She had also lent the financially irresponsible Portago about $ 15,000.
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ad had her holding her hand in front of her breast, but the agency considered the photo too risqué, and the photo was re-shot. The ad was accompanied by a provocative quiz written by Kay Daly, and it became an enormous success, winning
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According to Dorian, she wrote her autobiography for her late son: "I really wrote it for Kim, who will never read it. But perhaps other Kims and their parents may learn from my unhappy experiences".
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and opened and ran her own restaurant, Chez Leigh, from 1973 to 1975. She tried to get cooking jobs in Corsica and Orleans, as well. By 1976, she was broke.
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Because of her schedule, Dorian's two children were sent to live with her parents in Florida, while she was based in New York City and traveling to Europe.
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at the age of 91 in 2008. In her obituary, her first son, Thomas Lofton (T.L.) Hawkins, reminisced about his mother's famous "Fire and Ice" photograph.
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in 1937. They had two children: Thomas Lofton (T.L.) Hawkins (1939–2014) and Marsha Hawkins (born 1940). The couple separated in the 1940s.
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close her agencies because so much money had been stolen by Iddo. Most of her modeling fortune had either been stolen or spent recklessly.
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In 1972, Dorian became a born-again Christian at the urging of her sister Georgiabell and daughter Young. Living in Paris, she studied at
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In this two-page advertisement, Dorian is wearing a very tight, silver sequined gown swathed in a huge red wrap that was copied from a
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when she first married, when in fact, she was 20. Her first husband was Marshall Powell Hawkins, whom she married on a whim in
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Dorian continued her affair with Fon, even though his wife Carroll gave birth to their son Anthony de Portago around 1954.
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The previous summer in Paris, Dorian had met the married Spanish athlete Alfonso Cabeza de Vaca, Marquis of Portago (
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magazine's June 2, 1953, cover story. By then, she had appeared on the covers of more than 50 magazines. On the
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Dorian was survived by three of her five children: son T.L., who later married Kristie Miller, daughter of
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Republic created and distributed to movie houses, she was encouraged by a Mrs. Wayburn to try modeling.
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Dorian quickly became busy with modeling assignments, landing on the covers of major magazines such as
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and one of the earliest modeling icons of the fashion industry. She is considered one of the first
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Dorian gave birth to her daughter, Young Eve Mehle, on March 27, 1949. The couple had a house in
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A few days after Portago was killed, Dorian's sister Suzy, while making a movie with
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cover, she is quoted as saying, "I would rather have a baby than a mink coat."
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One day, at a photographer's studio, Dorian met a young fashion stylist named
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but quit when she married a man in the military, and was living in Oahu when
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In 1977, Dorian received a phone call from the New York City modeling agent
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but rarely saw each other. Roger Mehle's naval career stationed him in
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is said to be largely based on Dorian's life, as well as socialite
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photographed her for Revlon's most famous advertising campaign,
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The Girl Who Had Everything: The Story of the Fire and Ice Girl
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second eldest daughter, Florian, also had modeling photos in
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Doughnuts: Over 3 Dozen Crullers, Fritters and Other Treats
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Portago, still married, was now also openly dating actress
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Dorian also became well known for her advertising work for
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as an apprentice copywriter. While writing ad copy for the
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custody of her children. They also refused to accept Kim.
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magazines. She worked with famous fashion photographers
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Taking Mrs. Wayburn's advice, in 1944 Dorian went to the
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Around 1947, Dorian's sister Florian introduced her to
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Her job as model, mother, and actress was featured in
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In 1946, Dorian appeared on the cover of six American
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and said she learned about mechanical engineering at
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Deaths from Alzheimer's disease in the United States
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San Antonio
Texas
Falls Church
Virginia
Roger W. Mehle
Alfonso de Portago
Suzy Parker
model
supermodels
San Antonio, Texas
Suzy Parker
Jackson Heights, Queens
Metuchen, New Jersey
Queens, New York
Randolph-Macon Women's College
Lynchburg, Virginia
sophomore
North Carolina
Rutgers
New York University
Stevens Institute of Technology
Hoboken, New Jersey
Bell Laboratories
World War II
Eastern Air Lines
Republic Pictures
B movies
Harry Conover modeling agency
Diana Vreeland

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