Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski

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Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski
Born New Mexico
Nationality USA
Other names
  • Barbara Tanner
  • Barbara Tanner Allen
  • Barbara de Kwiatkowski
Occupation model, actor, journalist
Known for associate of Andy Warhol

Barbara Allen de Kwiatkowski nee Tanner, is a former model, journalist, and socialite. She is also known as an associate of Andy Warhol, working with him on Interview magazine.[1][2]

She was born in 1955, in New Mexico, but moved to the United Kingdom that year when her father, an officer with the USAF was posted there.[1] Kwiatkowski describes growing up British. However her family later moved to Paris, when her father was posted to France.

She married Joseph Allen, described then as a "newsprint entrepeneur", when she was 19 and he was 29.[1] Allen bought a share of Interview, which he put in Barbara's name, "so she would have something to do". Fran Liebowitz, also an associate of Warhol, said her marraige to Allen was essentially over, after Barbara joined the Warhol entourage.

During the next decade, in addition to working with Warhol, Barbara modeled, tried appearing in movies, and rebuffed many ardent admirers.[1] In the mid-1970s she was the boyfriend of Peter Beard, a celebrated photographer.[3] She described one incident where, early one morning, Mick Jagger tried to sneak in her bedroom window, only to sneak into the window of Beard's bedroom. She said the three of them had a good laugh over Jagger's misadventure. In another account Jagger snuck into the window of houseguest Bob Colacello.[4] Other boyfriends and admirers from this period included Taki Theodoracopulos, Philip Niarchos, Ilie Nastase and Warren Beatty.

She met Henryk de Kwiatkowski in the mid-1980s, and married him in 1986.[1] Henryk was a wealthy Canadian aircraft broker. He was 31 years older than she was. Barbara and Henryk were married until his death in 2003.

Warhol published his diaries 1989.[1][5][6] They mentioned Barbara 73 times, and contained many embarrassing details.[7][8] She described how Henryk's grown children from his first marraige were shocked and showed their account of Barbara wild times to their father. She said he told her he didn't care.

References

  1. 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 1.5 George Gurley (2007-03-26). "Barbara of Beekman Place". New York Observer. https://observer.com/2007/03/barbara-of-beekman-place/. Retrieved 2019-08-05. "The palatial apartment we were sitting in was bought by her late husband, Henryk de Kwiatkowski, in the 1960’s. Since his death in 2003, she’s had it to herself and a handful of servants, except when her son Nicholas comes home from college. I glanced out the window at the East River swirling. A servant appeared with a tray of green tea and tiny sandwiches with the crusts cut off." 
  2. Philip Sherwell, New York3:37PM BST 25 Apr 2014 (2014-04-25). "Mark Shand died after 'night of triumph', says socialite friend". The Telegraph (New York City). https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/10788376/Mark-Shand-died-after-night-of-triumph-says-socialite-friend.html. Retrieved 2019-08-05. "Mr Shand had been staying with his long-time friend for about six months at her apartment in Beekman Place, one of Manhattan’s most prestigious addresses, as he worked to set up his Elephant Family group in America." 
  3. Judy Klemesrudnov (1975-11-09). "The Self‐Described ‘Pathetic Person’". The New York Times: p. 72. https://www.nytimes.com/1975/11/09/archives/the-self-described-pathetic-person-they-all-want-to-be-with.html. Retrieved 2019-08-05. "In recent years, Mr. Beard has been linked romantically with Lee Radziwill and Candice Bergen, both of whom he calls “very close friends.” His current girlfriend, he said, is Barbara Allen, an assistant to Andy Warhol." 
  4. Katherine Kapnick (2010-06-18). "70's Hamptons Glamor: The Eothen Estate And The Superstars Who Summered There". Guest of a guest. https://guestofaguest.com/hamptons/montauk/70s-hamptons-glamor-the-eothen-estate-and-the-superstars-who-summered-there. Retrieved 2019-08-05. "According to author Bob Colacello, Bianca wasn’t the only girl on Mick’s mind in the summer of 1975. Barbara Allen was the gorgeous and charismatic wife of one of Warhol’s friends, and a former-fling of Peter Beard’s. Apparently, in the middle of one summer night as Colacello lay in bed at Beard's house, Mick Jagger came falling in through his open bedroom window. He had mistaken Colacello’s room for Allen’s." 
  5. Andy Warhol; Pat Hackett (2009). The Andy Warhol Diaries. Grand Central Publishing. ISBN 9780446571241. https://books.google.ca/books?id=OmBQv6Ib6tgC&pg=PT66&lpg=PT66&dq=%22Barbara+Tanner+Allen%22+OR+%22Barbara+Allen%22+OR+%22Barbara+Tanner%22+%22andy+warhol%22&source=bl&ots=-jSzHn_eXd&sig=ACfU3U0M9zDEhkMOPd0ra_QZh8gMUhanmw&hl=en&sa=X&ved=2ahUKEwjq_IiLj-3jAhVmmeAKHVZjC4AQ6AEwNnoECGMQAQ#v=onepage&q=%22Barbara%20Tanner%20Allen%22%20OR%20%22Barbara%20Allen%22%20OR%20%22Barbara%20Tanner%22%20%22andy%20warhol%22&f=false. Retrieved 2019-08-05. 
  6. "Barbara de Kwiatkowski". Italian Vogue magazine. https://www.vogue.it/en/magazine/people-in-vogue/2011/09/barbara-de-kwiatkowski?refresh_ce=. Retrieved 2019-08-05. "Of presences in other people’s diaries of others Barbara de Kwiatkowski has collected many: from those engulfed and exotic ones of Peter Beard, to the more insidious of Andy Warhol, where she is almost omnipresent." 
  7. Taki Theodoracopulos (2007-03-01). "Andy and me". Taki's magazine. https://www.takimag.com/article/andy_and_me/. Retrieved 2019-08-05. "Somehow he managed to write in his diaries exactly what followed. Barbara locked me out of her apartment, and when I broke down the door thinking she was inside with another man, I found her fast asleep, having taken a Quaalude that could have numbed the Minotaur. Andy’s diary made it seem much funnier than it was. Both Barbara and I swear to this day we never talked to him about it." 
  8. Andy Warhol (1989-05-08). "RESTRICTED: Diary of a Mad Decade". People magazine. https://people.com/archive/restricted-diary-of-a-mad-decade-vol-31-no-18/. Retrieved 2019-08-05. 
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