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    Image of lawyergay lawyergay
    05/25/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    She could always fall back on doing stunt-double work for William Hurt.
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    Image of bjonston bjonston
    05/22/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    Upon seeing that picture of AL, I am reminded of the immortal words of Austin Powers: "She's a man, baby!"
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/22/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    Leibovitz purposefully and spitefully compromised the GV townhouses- she had been battling the GV Historical society that had sought to stop her from radically renovating them against code. She had the structures compromised (specifically the roofs) so that the weather was let in and the place would be wrecked, uninhabitable, and she could get her way at last. It was intentional.


    (Martha Stewart did the same thing to an architecturally significant classic modernist 1960's house on Georgica Pond in East Hampton. Denied permission to demolish it, she had it structurally damaged intentionally to make it beyond saving.)


    Don't feel sorry for Liebovitz in the slightest. Her not paying her vendors and assistants is not excusable. She's someone who really thinks she's above such trifles as paying the army of little people who work for her to take those tired, hacky clichèd pictures of hers. And contrary to some speculation that Sontag's

    bequeathals caused her financial distress (in the absence of same-sex marriage laws), this is not the case- she herself has said so, and in any case Sontag and she were no longer a couple at the former's death.


    Ask David Rieff (Sontag's son) what he thinks of Liebovitz. Not a nice person.

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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    05/22/09

    @Baroness: Wow, Baroness. Now that's what I call a substantive comment.
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/22/09

    @skahammer: Sigh, I know- Ido go on sometimes. It's happy hour on Memorial Friday, please forgive the G&T's talking.


    Oh, and Liebovitz raped me once. On the little bed in Joe Franklin's office.

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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    05/22/09

    @Baroness: My spidey senses have always suspected that she was a large, grasping ball of drugs and ego.
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    Image of jrhys jrhys
    05/22/09

    @Baroness: Smart, funny, and easily manhandled. You're my dream date.
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    Image of JacquesPaysan JacquesPaysan
    05/22/09

    @Baroness: Wow, that's good. Just the right amount of snark and recherché.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    05/23/09

    Get in line, dudes. Those G&Ts are on my tab now.
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    Image of PandoraSpocks PandoraSpocks
    05/23/09

    @Baroness: Love all the gruesome details...
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    Image of Scout 3.0 Scout 3.0
    05/23/09

    @Baroness: Have any links to give a bigger picture?
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    Image of Baroness Baroness
    05/23/09

    @Scout 3.0: Courtesy of Hyperdelic below:


    [www.gvshp.org]


    "Demolition by neglect" sounds about right.

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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    05/22/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    She better get to snapping some pictures quick fast to get some mad, mad dollars.
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    Image of Chileno Chileno
    05/22/09

    @jasonelias: yeah i know hasn't she heard of those stock photography sites and the miracle of residual income?
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    Image of jasonelias jasonelias
    05/22/09

    @Chileno: Yep. You know what else she could do? She could offer her services for taking pics for rich people. They're vain enough to do it and would pay an exorbitant price for it.
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    Image of HiredGoons HiredGoons
    05/23/09

    @jasonelias: worked for Warhol.
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    Image of Mo MoDo Mo MoDo
    05/22/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    That's what she gets for taking financial advice from Edmund Andrews.
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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    05/22/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    This is just what has happened to a sub-prime borrower, just on a bigger scale. She is now house-rich and money-poor.


    What is sad is she has an 8-year-old and 3-year-old twins.

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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    05/22/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    That will teach her to turn that sweet little Hannah Mantegna girl into a dirty whore with her lesbian camera powers.
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    Image of Pope John Peeps II Pope John Peeps II
    05/22/09

    In reply to Will Annie Leibovitz Be Forced Into Bankruptcy?
    How on earth could she have gotten this bad? She's the single most recognized name in photography. What the hell has she been doing?
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    05/22/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Well, thanks to the totally just Federal laws regarding domestic partnership, I know that the property taxes she's having to pay on what she inherited from Susan Sontag are pretty substantial. And, I don't know, maybe she invested in the stock market?
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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    05/22/09

    @Colonel Mustard: Sorry, that last sentence sounds facetious on rereading it — didn't mean it that way. I really am wondering aloud if she invested.
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    Image of depardoo depardoo
    05/22/09

    @Pope John Peeps II:


    The news a few weeks ago mentioned the inherited property. Now there is this reference to the building next door. It sounds like she now owns a lot of real estate that is declining in value and she has no cash to pay debts. It blows.

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    Image of FormerEnglishMajor FormerEnglishMajor
    05/22/09

    @Colonel Mustard: This was sorta "debunked" a while ago. Sontag's estate all went to her son, and Leibowitz chose a couple of pieces of her "personal property" as a token remembrance.


    [www.nypost.com]

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    Image of Colonel Mustard Colonel Mustard
    05/22/09

    @FormerEnglishMajor: Huh. I stand corrected. I officially have no idea why she's broke.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    05/22/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: When it's an artist of Leibovitz' stature, I always assume she left the details of the "business end" to someone else -- which is usually a smart move -- but simply picked the wrong (dishonest, overwhelmed, incompetent, incompatible, whatever) person.


    It happens. People in Leibovitz' position often choose their business managers through emotion or simple convenience rather than reason and planning. Think of her decision as comparable to many people's 401(k) account allocations, but with much more immediate consequences.

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    Image of forwardmotion forwardmotion
    05/22/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Cocaine, I assume.
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    Image of CaptainFantastic CaptainFantastic
    05/22/09

    @skahammer: See Nelson, Willie.
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    Image of fractal_elves fractal_elves
    05/23/09

    @Pope John Peeps II: Maybe she needs a good manager to take care of the financial side of biz. Look, it's not like she forgot to pay the cleaner bill once. She systematically fails to pay the people who worked for her. Also, from what I read, she's a total arrogant ass.
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    Image of skahammer skahammer
    05/23/09

    @fractal_elves: The benefit of having a good business manager is that people will still do business with you and allow you to be an arrogant ass deep into old age.


    If you think a certain amount of well-earned arrogance fits well with the artistic temperament, then more artists should really consider their choice of business manager crucial, shouldn't they?

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