He would spend eight weeks in hospital, recovering from the bullets that had torn holes in his stomach, liver, spleen, esophagus and lungs.

His co-workers were late to call an ambulance, and the paramedics decided to carry him in a wheelchair down six flights of stairs rather than use the elevator. Why don't you get on Valerie?.And she said, 'Oh–that's a good idea.' And she went on the elevator.'Īfter Solanas left, Warhol was fighting to life. Morrissey recounts what happened next in Blake Gopnik's biography of the artist: 'She puts the gun next to his head and says, 'I'm gonna shoot you!'.and the elevator door opened.And Fred said, 'Oh, there's the elevator. Rebel Art Group Sells a Real Andy Warhol Drawing Disguised Among 999 FakesĪmaya received a flesh wound to the back, but escaped and closed himself into a screening room, while Johnson was able to keep Solanas out of the room he was in.Lost Warhol Computer Art Recovered From Floppy Disks.What Happened to Andy Warhol's Boyfriend Jed Johnson.The first set of shots missed the artist, but then Solanas shot him at point-blank range, hitting him on his right side, just under his arm. These various Factory workers were busying themselves with work while the artist took a call from actor and Warhol superstar Viva when Solanas started shooting. In the studio, meanwhile, was the artist's business manager Fred Hughes in-house photographer Billy Name curator Mario Amaya and Morrissey. With them in the elevator was new Factory assistant (and Warhol's future boyfriend) Jed Johnson.

Solanas had come to the building numerous times that day looking for Warhol, with the artist's associate (and director of many of the later Warhol films) Paul Morrissey lying and saying the artist would not be in all day so as to get rid of her.Įventually, however, she bumped into Warhol on the pavement outside, and so the two of them went up to the Factory together. on June 3, 1968, in the second studio Warhol had christened 'The Factory.' This was on the sixth floor of the Decker Building, at 33 Union Square West in Manhattan, New York City. The shooting happened at around 4:30 p.m. The writer served three years in prison for the incident. Valerie Solanas being interviewed after being arrested for shooting Andy Warhol.

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