Ivy Nicholson

[8] Nicholson moved to Italy and worked for fashion designers such as Irene Galitzine, Fernanda Gattinoni, the Sorelle Fontana, Simonetta, Alberto Fabiani and Emilio Pucci.

[3] In 1954, director Howard Hawks tested her to play the lead female role of Princess Nellifer in his movie Land of the Pharaohs.

Instructed to nip at the hand of actor Jack Hawkins in her screen test, Nicholson bit him “to the bone,” and Hawks decided to go with Joan Collins instead.

At the time of the Look article she was living in Paris, the wife of French writer and actor, Count Regis Ruyneau St. Georges de Poleon.

"[2] In a caption to a 1966 photo he took of her, Billy Name, a photographer associated with Andy Warhol's Factory recorded "...the glamorous model Ivy Nicholson who had recently arrived in New York from Europe".

[5] The San Francisco Chronicle reported that in the early 1980s Ivy Nicholson was "living the low life in the Tenderloin.

"[2] Prior to 2014 Ivy and her son Gunther lived together in a small apartment at the North Shore of Staten Island.