Cyrinda and Angie
The first time I met Angela Bowie was also the first night I met Steven Arnold. Steven's friend Joanne Fradkin who is still one of my best friends invited me to a huge party that Steven was throwing in Hollywood. She always kept saying "Steven will adore you you have to meet him and be his next muse" When I arrived I couldn't believe my eyes! Nude men everywhere covered from head to toe in gilt serving cocktails. Live models in crazy attire. Just big time eye-candy. There was a huge circus like tent that seemed to be the center of the happening. I walk in and there is Angela Bowie as part of the entertainment doing a fabulous exotic dance of some sort. Anyway I met her and Steven of course and the rest is history.
I do remember that when I finally got home I couldn't sleep. My mind was reeling. I had never whitnessed such decadence and most likely never again.
Angela Bowie (born Mary Angela Barnett in 1949 in Cyprus) is an American citizen who has been a covergirl, model, actress, musician, groupie and, most recently, a best-selling author.
Angela is of English (father) and Greek Cypriot (mother) descent. Her father, Col. G. M. Barnett, was a mining engineer and ran a mill for Cyprus Mines Corporation. Her mother was Helena Marie Galas. Angela has one older brother.
Educated in United States, Switzerland and Kingston Polytechnic (UK), she grew up in the US, where she attended Connecticut College For Women until she was expelled for having a lesbian affair with another student.
Relationship with David Bowie
She met David Bowie in 1969, at the age of 19. According to David Bowie, they met when they were both "fucking the same bloke" (Asian record executive Calvin Mark Lee). She married him one year later, on March 19, 1970 at Bromley Register Office in Beckenham Lane, Kent in England, where she took his stage surname. On 30 May 1971, David and Angie Bowie had a son they named Duncan Zowie Haywood Jones. Zowie later preferred to be known as Joe/Joey, although now he has reverted to the name Duncan Jones.
David Bowie wrote the songs "The Prettiest Star" and "Golden Years" about her.
Angie and David Bowie separated after eight years of marriage and divorced on February 8, 1980, in Switzerland. Angie, later citing it as "a marriage of convenience" for both, settled for £300,000. She then began a long-term relationship with punk musician Drew Blood (real name Andrew Lipka) and on July 24, 1980 gave birth to their daughter, Stacia Larranna Celeste Lipka, in Mendocino, California.
Later life
Angie wrote an autobiographical bestseller, Backstage Passes: Life On the Wild Side with David Bowie, published in 1993 and updated in 2000. It detailed her drug-fueled and openly bisexual lifestyle with her former husband and many other well-known rockers. In the book, she tells of her notorious first-hand encounter seeing David and Mick Jagger naked in bed together, confirming the long-standing rumours of sexual encounters between them.
She released an album, Moon Goddess, on Subterraneans' London based record label The Electric Label in 2002. The UK release of the album contained a duet with Subterraneans' vocalist Jude Rawlins on a version of the Rolling Stones song "The Last Time". She is currently working on her second album, Fancy Footwork.Fictional portrayals
The movie Velvet Goldmine was loosely based on her life with David Bowie. She was fictionalized as a character named "Mandy", portrayed by Toni Collette 
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