Judy Green

Judith Green (October 26, 1934 – September 14, 2001) was a New York City novelist, socialite and philanthropist.

Early life Judith was born on October 26, 1934, and brought up in New York, at 101 Central Park West. She was the daughter of Arthur Stephen Heiman, a wealthy businessman, and Rose Boehm Heiman (d. 2002). She graduated from the Birch Wathen School and, later, Vassar College.

Career From an early age, she moved in social, publishing, and show business circles. Dorothy Fields, the Broadway lyricist, was a maternal relative. She was heralded as Andy Warhol's first muse by Baby Jane Holzer. Warhol not only did her photo portrait but she starred in his first movie, The Kiss, on permanent display at MOMA. She was also reportedly close to Frank Sinatra and Neil Sheehan, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Vietnam War correspondent. she wrote and released The Young Marrieds, a novel published by Simon & Schuster, before she was married, which was turned into a daytime soap opera, The Young Marrieds.

After her marriage to Green, she went on to author three more books. Irving Lazar was her first agent. by which time she was already a published author, she married William John "Bill" Green (1915–1979), a businessman almost twice her age. Edgar M. Bronfman, president of Seagram Distillers, served as best man.

Christina Fields Green, who married Lloyd Harriman Gerry, the son of Robert Livingston Gerry III (b. 1937), in 2000. Gerry is a managing partner at Catalyst Partners LLC, a private investment management company in New York. Nicholas Green. They were known for their lavish entertaining for, among others, Frank and Barbara Sinatra, Ann and Morton Downey, Gregory and Veronique Peck, Kirk and Anne Douglas, Barbara Walters, Alan Greenspan, Peter Duchin, Jessica Tandy, Zoe Caldwell, Arlene Francis, Edgar Bronfman Sr., Joe Raposo, Mark Goodson, Mike Wallace, Bennett and Phyllis Cerf, Rosalind Russell and Freddie Brisson, Pamela and Leland Hayward, and Claudette Colbert.

Legacy In 2006, several years after her death, the painting of her by Warhol sold for $2,144,000.

Published works The Young Marrieds (1962), Simon & Schuster. Winners (1980), Knopf. Sometimes Paradise (1987), Knopf. Unsuitable Company (1991), Bantam Books