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Nicky Samuel: My

Life and Loves

Richard Perceval Graves

KEY SELLING POINTS

An insider’s view of the life of heiress and socialite Nicky Samuel with a focus on the Sixties and Seventies.
Includes intimate cameo portraits of a whole host of well-known figures.
The book combines a rich slice of social history with a strong personal narrative.

When beautiful heiress Nicky Samuel (1951-2019) left school at the age of 16, she was caught up in the world
of Sixties London. Her first job was with Yoko Ono, and she soon fell in love with the owner of the fashionable
hippy boutique ‘Granny Takes a Trip’, Nigel Waymouth, whom she married and later attended the legendary Isle
of Wight Pop Concert alongside. She spent time with celebrities such as Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda, Roger
Vadim, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

At nineteen, Nicky became a fashionable hostess. She was photographed by Norman Parkinson for Vogue; and
her close friends included Mick and Bianca Jagger, Christopher Gibbs, David Hockney, Anita Pallenberg and the
eccentric, reclusive heroin addict John Paul Getty Jr. Her marriage broke up when she became involved in a
passionate menage-a-trois involving the film-director Donald Cammell.

In 1974, Nicky married homosexual jewellery designer, New York socialite and fortune-hunter Kenneth Jay
Lane. Her social success was such that she was featured as a ‘New Beauty’ by Time Magazine. However, she
became so unhappy and drug-addicted that she attempted suicide in the London Ritz.

Nicky’s is exactly the kind of superficially glamorous life to which many star-struck and celebrity hungry people
aspire; this memoir is a uniquely vivid experience of a vanished world.

Richard Perceval Graves is the author of more than nineteen books, including biographies of T.E. Lawrence,
A.E. Housman, The Powys Brothers, Richard Hughes and Robert Graves. In 1999 he was awarded a Hawthornden
Fellowship, and he Chaired the Powys Society from 2001 to 2005. Richard lives in Bristol.

Publication Date: 28th January 2024 £24.99 ISBN: 9781805140566
Thema subject category: DNBH – Biography: historical, political and military
hardback 234 x 156 mm 328 pp Portrait Author location: Bristol

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