Her parents split by the time she was four, sending their two daughters to live with their grandparents in nearby Atlantic City before Valerie eventually reunited with her mother.
She learned to play piano at age 7, and before long was rewriting popular songs with silly substitute lyrics. Solanas also may have been sexually abused by her alcoholic father a claim she later repeated to friends and psychologists , and by adolescence, an aggressive rebellious streak had emerged.
Pulled from her Catholic middle school after attacking a nun, she twice became pregnant by age 15 — the first time allegedly by a relative, the other likely by an older sailor; both babies were taken to be raised elsewhere.
Amid the turmoil, Solanas began discovering an identity: She started exploring her romantic feelings for women and her grades markedly improved. Wrote her high school principal in a college letter of recommendation, "She is an exceptionally bright girl with lots of courage and determination.
At the University of Maryland, College Park, Solanas supported herself by working in the psychology department's experimental animal laboratory and possibly through prostitution.
The aggression was still there — she was disciplined and ordered to counseling multiple times — but Solanas continued to thrive academically and gained a few friends among the artsy-intellectual sect. She also found an outlet through contributions to the school paper, developing a reputation for letters that railed against sexism in a biting yet hilarious fashion.
Solanas then enrolled in a master's psychology program at the University of Minnesota, where, Fahs suggests, she became frustrated by the realization of the glass ceiling on her career prospects. She dropped out after a year and hitchhiked to California, before returning to New Jersey in the early s.
The Andy Warhol Museum is in the cross hairs of controversy, this time for a planned exhibit of previously published photographs of the abuse of Iraqi inmates at Abu Ghraib prison. Sandusky Street, where the museum is located, leads to the bridge.
Expand Autoplay. Image 1 of Warhol died in a New York hospital in after an apparently normal surgery turned out to be fatal. In February , Andy underwent what seemed, at the time, to be a routine operation: a gallbladder surgery. However, on the morning of Feb. Initially, his sudden death was unexpected, and his family sued the hospital for malpractice, claiming Andy's death was because of improper post-op care he received there.
Eventually, they settled out of court for an undisclosed amount. In hindsight, however, there were several signs that Andy's surgery might have been a more complicated case than initially thought. A New York Times article said Andy's surgery was dangerous from the start.
He had a family history of gallbladder disease, and, compounding that, he himself had been putting off dealing with his own gallbladder problems because of an intense fear of hospitals. On top of that, his injuries from a previous near-fatal shooting, his drug habits , and his pattern of not eating had left his body seriously damaged even without the badly diseased gallbladder poisoning him from the inside out by the time he finally agreed to have removal surgery.
This reticence produced fatal results on February 21, , when Warhol died of cardiac arrest suffered after gallbladder surgery, a procedure that he had delayed for several years due to his fear of hospitals. He was always nervous about getting sick. I think death always made him nervous, but of course, having almost died once really escalated that.
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