- Penelope Tree
Penelope Tree (born
1950 ) is an Anglo-Americansupermodel .Penelope was born to Anglo-American
bisexual journalist ,investor and MPRonald Tree (grandson of retailerMarshall Field ); and socialite/Democratic political activist motherMarietta Peabody Tree (granddaughter of Rev. Endicott Peabody).Her family objected to her career as a model, and when she was first photographed at the age of thirteen by
Diane Arbus , her father vowed he would sue if the pictures were published. [ [http://www.findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1316/is_n1_v30/ai_20239566#continue No Regrets: The Life of Marietta Tree. - book reviews | Washington Monthly | Find Articles at BNET.com ] ]Cecil Beaton also photographed Tree's elfin face, one that made "The Tree" a match for "The Twig" in the 1960s. By the timeDiana Vreeland sent her toRichard Avedon , she was seventeen and her father had relented. David Bailey described Penelope as 'an EgyptianJimminy Cricket ". In 1967, she moved into Bailey's flat in London's Primose Hill neighbourhood. It became a hang-out for spaced-out hippies during the "Swinging Sixties" who, Bailey recalled, would be "smoking joints I had paid for and calling me a capitalist pig!" In another famous quote, John Lennon, asked to encapsulate Tree in three words, called her, "Hot, Hot, Hot, Smart, Smart, Smart!" She has been extensively compared toThe Beatles for inspiring the swinging 60's movement and for galvanizing a generation of young American females.In 1974, Bailey and Tree split up and she moved to
Sydney, Australia , to remove herself from the focus of thefashion photographer 's camera. She appeared in the British comedy film "The Rutles " in 1978. [ [http://msn-uk.imdb.com/name/nm0871686 Penelope Tree ] ] She is the half-sister of US authorFrances FitzGerald and the niece of former Massachusetts governorEndicott Peabody .A long time resident of
Australia , she has been married twice, once to theSouth African rock musicianRicky Fataar (who was a member ofThe Rutles and theBeach Boys ). She has two children, Michael, and Paloma Fataar (a graduate ofBard College and a student ofTibetan Buddhism and music).References
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