Inside the life of Warhol-muse Candy Darling
Fifty years after her death at age 29, Candy Darling (real name Jimmy Slattery, Massapequa, Long Island), Andy Warhol’s underground film star, has long been a transgender icon. He finally achieved the coveted stardom. In her 418-page biography, Candy Darling: Dreamer, Icon, Superstar, Cynthia Carr writes: [Farrar, Straus and Giroux], Candy was a “beauty queen, […]