![]() ![]() A sly personification of a charm bracelet, she winks with tossed away bon mots, “darling’s” and the occasional four letter word. “I'd rob a grave, I'd steal two-bits off a dead man's eyes if I thought it would contribute to the day's enjoyment-but unto thyself honest,” she philosophizes. Indelibly linked to the iconic albeit sanitized image of Audrey Hepburn, the novel’s Holly was written as a slim girl, just shy of 19, piquant, breezy, and mercenary in her pursuit of a good time. Starting as early as the novella’s 1958 publication, “half the women he knew and a few he did not claimed to be the model for his wacky heroine,” biographer Gerald Clarke wrote in his definitive biography of the author. ![]() ![]() Littman may be the last of the would-be Holly’s, but, in fact, she has a few sisters who can also lay claim to the Golightly name. ![]() However, most tributes farewelled her with the curious send-off that she had been the inspiration for Holly Golightly in Truman Capote’s Breakfast at Tiffany’s. When the London residing hostess, Marguerite Littman, died late this year, she left behind a storied life filled with acquaintances both notable and quotable. ![]()
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