Judy Green (socialite)

Judith Green (October 26, 1934 – September 14, 2001) was a New York City novelist, socialite and philanthropist.

Judy Green
Born
Judith Heiman

(1934-10-26)October 26, 1934
New York City, New York
DiedSeptember 14, 2001(2001-09-14) (aged 66)
New York City, New York
EducationBirch Wathen School
Alma materVassar College
Spouse(s)
William John Green
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(m. 1964; died 1979)​
ChildrenChristina Fields Green
Nicholas Green
Parent(s)Arthur Stephen Heiman
Rose Fields Heiman

Early life

Judith was born on October 26, 1934, and brought up in New York, at 101 Central Park West. She was the daughter of Arthur Stephen Heiman, a wealthy businessman, and Rose Boehm Heiman (d. 2002).[1] She graduated from the Birch Wathen School and, later, Vassar College.

Career

From an early age she moved in social, publishing and showbusiness circles. Dorothy Fields, the Broadway lyricist, was a maternal relative. She was heralded as Andy Warhol's first muse by Baby Jane Holzer.[2] Warhol not only did her photo portrait but she starred in his first movie, The Kiss, on permanent display at MOMA.[3][4] She was also reportedly close to Frank Sinatra and Neil Sheehan, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Vietnam War correspondent.[5]

In 1962,[6] she wrote and released The Young Marrieds,[7] a novel published by Simon & Schuster, before she was married, which was turned into a daytime soap opera, The Young Marrieds.[5]

After her marriage to Green, she went on to author three more books. Irving Lazar was her first agent.[8] She also wrote Sometimes Paradise, which was about the anguish of country club acceptance, Winners, which was about the 1980s "salad days of this decade's glitzoid."[5] In 1991, she released Unsuitable Company, which was "partly about a struggle to keep a Midwest-based manufacturing concern alive in the face of an eviscerating takeover attempt by a ruthless, greedy conglomerate pirate. Most of the story, however, turns on a cat fight between two desperate trophy wives over the purchase rights to an $11 million apartment at one of Fifth Avenue`s most prestigious addresses."[5]

Personal life

In 1964, when she was in her late 20s,[9] by which time she was already a published author, she married William John "Bill" Green (1915–1979), a businessman almost twice her age.[10] Edgar M. Bronfman, president of Seagram Distillers, served as best man.[9] Green was the founder and CEO of the Clevepak Corporation, a manufacturer of packaging and containers based in New York.[11] Judy and Bill Green resided on Park Avenue. Before his death from a heart attack in Barbados in January 1979, the Greens had two children:[12]

  • Christina Fields Green, who married Lloyd Harriman Gerry, the son of Robert Livingston Gerry III (b. 1937), in 2000.[11] Gerry is a managing partner at Catalyst Partners LLC, a private investment management company in New York.[13]
  • Nicholas Green.[10]

She endured a 10-month-long battle with pancreatic cancer and died on September 14, 2001 at home, aged 66, having left the hospital for the last time on Monday, September 10, unknowingly avoiding the logistical problems caused by the September 11 attacks the following day.[14]

Residence

They also had had, at one time, a Mount Kisco estate, described as a "large, beautiful home with seven ponds, a pool and tennis court," that she listed for sale for $7.5 million in May 1980.[15] They were known for their lavish entertaining for, among others, Frank and Barbara Sinatra, Ann and Morton Downey, Gregory and Veronique Peck, Kirk and Anne Douglass, Barbara Walters, Alan Greenspan, Peter Duchin, Jessica Tandy, Zoe Caldwell, Arlene Francis, Edgar Bronfman Sr., Joe Raposo, Mark Goodson, Mike Wallace, Bennett and Phyllis Cerf, Rosalind Russell and Freddie Brisson, Pamela and Leland Hayward, and Claudette Colbert.[8]

Legacy

In 2006, several years after her death, the painting of her by Warhol sold for $2,144,000.[16]

Published works

References
  1. "Paid Notice: Deaths HEIMAN, ROSE F." The New York Times. 3 September 2002. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  2. "ANDY WARHOL (1928-1987) Judith Green, 1963-1964". christies.com. CHRISTIE'S. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  3. Warhol, Andy; Hackett, Pat (29 November 2009). The Andy Warhol Diaries. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9780446571241. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  4. "Andy Warhol 1963". www.warholstars.org. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  5. Kilian, Michael (September 11, 1991). "Ding, Dong, The Glitz Is Dead". The Chicago Tribune. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  6. "THE YOUNG MARRIEDS". The Philadelphia Inquirer. January 28, 1962. p. 40. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  7. Green, Judith H. (15 May 1977). "SPEAKING PERSONALLY". The New York Times. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  8. "The List in Memoriam - Judy Green". New York Social Diary. September 17, 2001. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  9. "Miss Judith Heiman Married In Mt. Kisco to William Green". The New York Times. 25 May 1964. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  10. "William Green, 64, Was Board Chairman Of the Clevepak Corp". The New York Times. January 24, 1979. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  11. "WEDDINGS; Christina Green, Lloyd Gerry". The New York Times. 30 April 2000. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  12. "Looking back on the decade". New York Social Diary. 29 December 2009. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  13. "Lloyd Gerry | Leaders | WWF". World Wildlife Fund. Retrieved 28 February 2017.
  14. New York Post article
  15. "LETTERS TO THE WESTCHESTER EDITOR; Author Called Atypical Resident; Divorce Comment Let 'Winners' Author Move Elsewhere Escalators, Ponds And Tennis Courts Divorce Recommendations Termed Incomplete Doesn't Support Presumption of Equality Metrics Without Mental Isometrics". The New York Times. May 25, 1980. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  16. Leight, Michele (November 15, 2006). "Art/Auctions: Andy Warhol at Christie's Contermporary Art Auction November 15, 2006". The City Review. Retrieved 2 March 2017.
  17. "THE YOUNG MARRIEDS by Judith Heiman". kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  18. Catalog of Copyright Entries. Third Series: 1961: July-December. Copyright Office, Library of Congress. 1962. p. 1387. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  19. "WINNERS by Judith Green". kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Reviews. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  20. "SOMETIMES PARADISE by Judith Green". kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Reviews. May 21, 1987. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
  21. "UNSUITABLE COMPANY by Judith Green". kirkusreviews.com. Kirkus Reviews. May 15, 1991. Retrieved 11 September 2017.
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