TIME HAS CAUGHT UP WITH THE GENER ATION OF TABLETOP-DANCING SOCIALITES WHO FILLED THE GOSSIP COLUMNS FROM THE ’80S TO THE 2000S. LIS A MARSH ASKS THESE FORMER WILD CHILDREN WHETHER THEIR ADVICE TO THEIR OWN KIDS IS “DO AS I S AY ” OR “DO AS I DID”?
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n the 1980s, sixteen-year-old Marie-Chantal Miller lead the life of a teenager’s dreams. She lived virtually alone in her parents’ luxurious Upper East Side apartment while they resided in Hong Kong, where her father’s duty-free shopping empire, the source of the family billions, was based. Her elder sister, Pia, and younger, Alexandra, were both in boarding school, but Marie-Chantal was taking a term off for “independent study”—interning for Andy Warhol. Working for the pop art icon, she accompanied him to dinners and gallery openings, as well as a seemingly endless whirl of clubs and parties. That meant being sucked into the tornado of press attention that churned around him wherever he went, complete with a permanent lightning storm of flash bulbs. JANUARY—FEBRUARY 2021 | AVENUE MAGAZINE
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