Bowie: A Biography - JFK247

put off by Pitt or in emotional need, he gave Angie
the sense that her presence was missed. She talked
her parents into booking an airplane ticket and soon,
to Pitt’s chagrin, she was joining Bowie in Italy.
Angie agreed with him about the relative dustiness
of the old cabaret material. She even criticized the
outfit Pitt had picked out for Bowie and loudly
insisted that he start dressing in more modern gear.
“David was thrilled; Ken wasn’t,” she writes in
Backstage Passes. “He had to find another room
and I don’t think it was the inconvenience that really
bothered him. Talk about a snit. And there’s nothing,
thank God, like the ire of a queen whose affection
has been spurned.”
Ken Pitt says he initially figured Angie was Jewish
because she was so forward. I asked him about this
and he answered, “I knew a number of people
named Barnett and without exception they were
Jewish. I suppose that when Angela appeared on
the scene I might have asked D if she was Jewish.
And he would then have said to her, ‘Ken thinks you
are Jewish.’ I didn’t think she was Jewish, I only
wondered. To this day I don’t know and quite
honestly I couldn’t care less. But then again perhaps I
didn’t ask D that question at all and this is just A’s
troublemaking.” As I indicated earlier, Pitt would later
identify her as the second (to Lee’s first) of the
predators who would help remove David from his
care. At the time, he thought she was more or less
amusing. He simply did not know who he was
dealing with.