Nicky Samuel: My Life and Loves

Nicky Samuel was a beautiful heiress who was caught up in the world of Sixties London. She married Nigel Waymouth and attended the Isle of Wight Pop Concert. She was a fashionable hostess and was photographed by Norman Parkinson for Vogue. Her marriage broke up when she became involved in a passionate menage-a-trois with Donald Cammell. In 1974, she married homosexual jewelry designer Kenneth Jay Lane, but her social success led to her attempted suicide in the London Ritz. This memoir is a vivid experience of a vanished world.

Format: Hardback
Length: 328 pages
Publication date: 28 January 2024
Publisher: Troubador Publishing

When the stunning heiress Nicky Samuel (1951-2019) graduated from high school at the age of 16, she was swept up in the vibrant world of Sixties London. Her first position was with Yoko Ono, and she quickly fell in love with Nigel Waymouth, the proprietor of the trendy hippy boutique "Granny Takes a Trip." She later married Nigel and attended the famous Isle of Wight Pop Concert with him. She had encounters with famous people like Andy Warhol, Jane Fonda, Roger Vadim, Bob Dylan, Keith Richards, and Robert Mapplethorpe.

At the age of nineteen, Nicky became a trendy hostess. Norman Parkinson shot her for Vogue, and her close friends included Mick and Bianca Jagger, Christopher Gibbs, David Hockney, Anita Pallenberg, and the eccentric, reclusive heroin addict John Paul Getty Jr. When she became involved in a passionate menage-a-trois with the film director Donald Cammell, her marriage ended.

In 1974, Nicky married homosexual jewelry designer, New York socialite, and fortune-hunter Kenneth Jay Lane. Her social success was such that she was featured as a "New Beauty" by Time Magazine. However, she became so unhappy and drug-addicted that she attempted suicide in the London Ritz.

Nicky's life is precisely the sort of ostentatiously glamorous existence that many star-struck and celebrity-hungry individuals aspire to; this memoir is also a singularly vivid account of a lost world.

Weight: 658g
Dimension: 166 x 241 x 32 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781805140566