PARK Magazine

COVER STORY
BY BENNETT MARCUS
HOW DID ANDY WARHOL CONVINCE A TEENAGE
Cornelia Guest to pose topless for a portrait?
“Oh, he didn’t, I couldn’t wait,” says Guest,
who is now an actress, animal advocate and
author. This happened in the early 1980s, way
before social media and Paris Hilton and Kim
Kardashian’s infamous tapes. “Andy said, ‘Your
mother’s going to kill me,’” – her mother being
C.Z. Guest, a Boston Brahmin and Best Dressed
List Hall of Fame fixture and one of Truman
Capote’s most famous swans, who remained
at the pinnacle of high society throughout
her life. “Listen, find me a 16-year-old girl
that does not want to piss off their mother
royally,” says Guest, laughing at the memory.
“I was like, this is going to be a good one!”
PHOTOGRAPHY BY STEWART SHINING
Stylists: Greg Collard and Jane Sublett
Hair and Makeup: Heather Fitzgerald
Catering: corneliaguestevents.com
Guest in J Crew
shirt Surveying
the grounds of
her East Texas
Ranch