Judy Green (socialite)

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).[1] She graduated from the Birch Wathen School and, later, Vassar College.

From an early age she moved in social, publishing and showbusiness circles. Dorothy Fields, the Broadway lyricist, was a maternal relative. She was heralded as Andy Warhol's first muse by Baby Jane Holzer.[2] Warhol not only did her photo portrait but she starred in his first movie, The Kiss, on permanent display at MOMA.[3][4] She was also reportedly close to Frank Sinatra and Neil Sheehan, the Pulitzer Prize and National Book Award winning Vietnam War correspondent.[5]

In 1962,[6] she wrote and released The Young Marrieds,[7] a novel published by Simon & Schuster, before she was married, which was turned into a daytime soap opera, The Young Marrieds.[5]

After her marriage to Green, she went on to author three more books. Irving Lazar was her first agent.[8] She also wrote Sometimes Paradise, which was about the anguish of country club acceptance, Winners, which was about the 1980s "salad days of this decade's glitzoid."[5] In 1991, she released Unsuitable Company, which was "partly about a struggle to keep a Midwest-based manufacturing concern alive in the face of an eviscerating takeover attempt by a ruthless, greedy conglomerate pirate. Most of the story, however, turns on a cat fight between two desperate trophy wives over the purchase rights to an $11 million apartment at one of Fifth Avenue`s most prestigious addresses."[5]

In 1964, when she was in her late 20s,[9] by which time she was already a published author, she married William John "Bill" Green (1915–1979), a businessman almost twice her age.[10] Edgar M. Bronfman, president of Seagram Distillers, served as best man.[9] Green was the founder and CEO of the Clevepak Corporation, a manufacturer of packaging and containers based in New York.[11] Judy and Bill Green resided on Park Avenue. Before his death from a heart attack in Barbados in January 1979, the Greens had two children:[12]

• Christina Fields Green, who married Lloyd Harriman Gerry, the son of Robert Livingston Gerry III (b. 1937), in 2000.[11] Gerry is a managing partner at Catalyst Partners LLC, a private investment management company in New York.[13]
• Nicholas Green.[10]

She endured a 10-month-long battle with pancreatic cancer and died on September 14, 2001, at home, aged 66.

• The Young Marrieds (1962), Simon & Schuster.[16][17]
• Winners (1980), Knopf.[18]
• Sometimes Paradise (1987), Knopf.[19]
• Unsuitable Company (1991), Bantam Books[20]

• Site with photo of Judith Green