- Met Andy Warhol in 1964; while shooting one of his films, "I, a Man", she took the name of Ultra Violet.
- Met with Salvador Dalí in 1955 and became his pupil.
- In 1948, after a religious upbringing, she rebelled and was exorcised in a Latin ritual pronounced by a Catholic priest.
- Various people have taken credit for suggesting to Andy Warhol that he paint soup cans, including Ultra Violet. She claims she ran into the then-unknown Warhol in 1961 at a luncheonette on 88th and Madison and suggested the idea during an artistic discussion while he was sitting at the counter eating chicken soup.
- A former French débutante, she shed her bourgeois ways upon meeting Warhol. As a "Factory" groupie, she poured cranberry juice in her hair to color it, used beets to rouge her lips and cheeks, and dressed in vintage torn purple dresses. However, she claims she did not participate in the drug scene.
- Divided her time between her studio in Nice, France, and her apartment in Manhattan.
- Is portrayed by Myriam Cyr in I Shot Andy Warhol (1996).
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