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Jane Holzer (née Brukenfeld; born October 23, 1940), is an American art collector and real estate investor. She is best known as a Warhol superstar, and she also worked as a model, actress, and film producer. Nicknamed Baby Jane Holzer, she appeared on the cover of British Vogue in 1964, and she was referred to as one of the "fashion revolutionaries" by Women's Wear Daily in 1966.
She attended Finch College in Manhattan but "flunked out of college on purpose to become a model," she recounted. In 1962, she married real estate investor, Leonard Holzer. In 1963, her modeling career began to take off in London where she was photographed by David Bailey. In 1964, Holzer told journalist Tom Wolfe: "Bailey created four girls that summer. He created Jean Shrimpton, he created me, he created Angela Howard and Susan Murray. There’s no photographer like that in America. Richard Avedon hasn’t done that for a girl, Irving Penn hasn't, and Bailey created four girls in one summer. He did some pictures of me for the English Vogue, and that was all it took."
She was nicknamed "Baby Jane" Holzer by a newspaper columnist as a reference to the film Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962). Holzer is considered to be one of the first Warhol superstars. She was a young society wife when she was introduced to artist Andy Warhol in 1964. British interior designer Nicky Haslam brought Warhol to a dinner party at Holzer's Park Avenue apartment in New York, where he also met Rolling Stones musician Mick Jagger for the first time. Holzer later ran into Warhol on Madison Avenue and he asked to make films with him. Warhol recalled in his memoir Popism (1980): "She was such a gorgeous girl—great skin and hair. And so much enthusiasm—she wanted to do everything. I asked her if she wanted to be in a movie and she got excited: 'Sure! Anything beats being a Park Avenue housewife!"
In 1964, Holzer created a stir by attending the couture fashion shows in Paris. Known for her mane of teased hair, she was highlighted in Vogue magazine's October 1964 issue. As Diana Vreeland, editor of Vogue, put it, she was "the most contemporary girl I know." The November 1964 edition of British Vogue featured her on the cover.
Movies she appeared in included Andy Warhol's Soap Opera (1964), Couch (1964), Batman Dracula (1964), and Camp (1965).
In 1966, Holzer was named one of the "fashion revolutionaries" in New York by Women's Wear Daily, alongside Edie Sedgwick, Tiger Morse, Pierre Cardin, Paco Rabanne, Rudi Gernreich, André Courrèges, Emanuel Ungaro, Yves Saint Laurent, and Mary Quant.
In 1967, she played herself at a New York party in the Television pilot of the short-lived TV series, Coronet Blue.
She released the single "Rapunzel"/"Nowhere" in 1967 on Atco Records, produced by Al Kasha and arranged by Barry Goldberg.
Holzer appeared in the independently produced Ciao! Manhattan (1972). She co-produced the 1985 film Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Holzer became a prominent modern art collector and a real estate tycoon. She lived in a six-story townhouse in New York, surrounded by her collection of art which includes Warhol, Keith Haring, and Jean-Michel Basquiat.
She now resides in Palm Beach, Florida. Holzer also owns a significant amount of Palm Beach real estate, notably the restaurant Le Bilboquet, where she and Philippe Delgrange are business partners.
In 2014, Holzer was the subject of an exhibition titled "To Jane, Love Andy" at the Norton Museum of Art in West Palm Beach.
She was one of the attendants at the wedding of Mary McFadden and Philip Harari in 1964.Charlotte Curtis, "Mary McFadden Married to Philip Harari at St. Bartholomew's; Former Dior Aide is Wed to Director in De Beers Group", The New York Times, September 26, 1964.
Her son Charles Holzer was born in 1969. He competed for the United States Virgin Islands at the 1992 Summer Olympics in show jumping, and his wife Ashley Holzer is a dressage rider who won a bronze medal for Canada at the 1988 Summer Olympics.
Holzer was parodied as Baby Jane Towser in the 1967 Batman episode "Pop/Flop Goes the Joker", where she was played by Diana Ivarson. p. 259 Spigel, Lynn TV by Design: Modern Art and the Rise of Network Television University of Chicago Press, 2008
She is referenced twice (as Baby Jane) in the 1972 Roxy Music single "Virginia Plain".
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