11/24/2023 0 Comments Al capp comic![]() ![]() This was distressing to me but not nearly as distressing as my later experience with Capp. He probably put this more subtly (he was perhaps the suavest man I’ve ever met) but that was the gist. He said I could have a lucrative career as a model if I would sleep with him. After the show we went to his castle-like home for drinks. Shortly before meeting Capp, I did some runway modeling in New York for the noted fashion designer Oleg Cassini. In those days I was occasionally offered modeling jobs. Every day the manager inspected the collar of my mustard yellow uniform, my fingernails. Desperately looking for meaningful work, I was at the time a waitress at the Top of the Hub, a restaurant that still exists on top of the Prudential Center. I had only recently returned to the United States. I managed to live for a year in London and another year in Paris by working as a secretary (those cities were relatively inexpensive then). Upon my graduation from Wellesley College (which I attended on a generous scholarship), I had to go to secretarial school in order to qualify for the kind of job available to women at that time.Įntirely self-supporting but eager to see the world, I went to Europe soon after graduation with only fifty dollars (all the money I had). I was 24 years old, living in a cave-like studio apartment on the wrong side of Beacon Hill. I was introduced to Capp in 1967 by Henri Rosen a man about town who lived in an apartment above my boyfriend’s on Boston’s waterfront (back in the days when the area was seedy and fairly dangerous). In fact, I had this experience with Capp in common with Grace Kelly, Goldie Hawn, and many other women-but more about that later. I also wrote briefly about it in the introduction to my first book, Can't Buy My Love: How Advertising Changes the Way We Think and Feel, which was published in 1999. However, I wrote about the experience in my journal at the time and told several friends and, in later years, my therapist. Capp died long ago, of course, and cannot defend himself. ![]()
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