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Brigid Berlin (also known as Brigid Polk, born
September 6, 1939) is an artist and former Warhol
superstar.

Brigid was born to socialite parents and a world
of Manhattan privilege. Her father was Richard E.
Berlin, chairman of the Hearst media empire for 52
years. As a child she regularly mixed with
celebrities and the powerful. Her socialite
mother, Honey Berlin, frequently worried about
Brigid's weight and had amphetamines prescribed to
faciltate weight control.

After several years as a reluctant debutante and a
failed marriage, Brigid Berlin met Andy Warhol in
1964 and quickly became a central member of his
entourage. After moving to Hotel Chelsea, she took
on the nickname Brigid Polk because of her habit
of giving out 'pokes', injections of Vitamin B and
amphetamines. These injections were readily
available through the many 'Dr Feelgood|Doctor
Feelgood's'in New York and perfectly legal.

Berlin appeared in many Andy Warhol films
including The Chelsea Girls in which she famously
injects herself while performing a monologue. She
also appears in the Edie Sedgwick film Ciao!
Manhattan and has recently been the subject of a
documentary Pie in the Sky.

Brigid was known for her obsessive taping and
photographing of every day life. Selections from
these tapes were later compiled to form the play
Andy Warhol's Pork. Other tapes made by her were
the basis for The Velvet Underground's first live
album, Live at Max's Kansas City (recorded 1970,
released 1972). 

Berlin was complicit in one of Warhol's most
infamous pranks when, in 1969, Warhol announced
that all of his paintings were the work of Berlin.
 Brigid enthusiastically followed this line when
interviewed by Time. The prank led to a drop in
the value of Warhol's work and both parties
eventually retracted their statements. The
question of authorship looms large in valuing
Warhol's paintings to this day.

In 1975, Brigid Berlin began work for Andy
Warhol's Interview magazine, a position that she
held until well after Warhol's death.

Brigid Berlin is also famous for her 'Tit
Paintings' (1969) (artworks executed using the
painter's bare breasts) and off-Broadway one-woman
shows.

Brigid still suffers with obsessive-compulsive
disorder, a theme that she often explores in her
artwork.

==Filmography==
*Chelsea Girls (1966)  
*Bike Boy (1967)
*Nude Restaurant, The (1967)
*Imitation of Christ (1967)
*Four Stars (1967) aka 24 Hour Movie 
*Loves of Ondine, The (1968) 
*Women in Revolt (1971)
*Ciao! Manhattan (1972)
*Bad (1977)
*Critical Years, The (1987)
*Serial Mom (1994)
*Pecker (1998)
*Pie in the Sky: The Brigid Berlin Story (2000)