![]() ![]() Despite the unfaithfulness and his drug habit-which Mallouk shared for a time-she still supported the painter, loving him even after he infected her with the pelvic inflammatory disease that would leave her infertile. At night, he would often go alone to clubs to pick up boys or girls and disappear with them for days at a time. Basquiat immediately moved into Mallouk’s apartment, where he spent his days drawing, masturbating or snorting cocaine. Not long after she arrived, she met Basquiat at a dive bar on the Lower East Side. With its bold and brashly inventive art scene, the city seemed the perfect place for a girl who wore paper dresses, hid heroin in her beehive hairdo and believed that she “had seen God” in Iggy Pop. ![]() ![]() In 1980, Mallouk left a dysfunctional home in Canada for New York. A provocative account of the passionate but stormy relationship between a Canadian runaway named Suzanne Mallouk and acclaimed New York artist Jean-Michel Basquiat (1960-1988). ![]()
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