These gatherings featured a range of celebrities, including Andy Warhol, Danielle Steel, Joan Baez, Eldridge Cleaver,[3] and Frank Sinatra.
Upon moving to San Francisco, Montandon worked during summer, managing a Joseph Magnin clothing store.
[2] Montandon is also the author of numerous non-fiction books, including The New York Times bestseller: How to Be a Party Girl,[6] The Intruders,[7] Whispers from God: A Life Beyond Imaginings,[8] and Oh the Hell of it All.
[9] Other books include Celebrities and Their Angels and Making Friends, the true story of two 11-year-old girls, Katya from Moscow and Star from San Francisco.
She met with 26 world leaders, including China's Premier Zhao Ziyang, Chancellor Helmut Kohl, Pope John Paul II, the late Indira Gandhi, Prime Minister Gro Harlem Brundtland of Norway, former Soviet President Mikhail Gorbachev, and Mother Teresa.
She has collected letters written by schoolchildren urging an end to nuclear proliferation, and has delivered food and supplies to children in Russia and Ethiopia.
[15] In 2014, Dr. Jitu Rajgor founded a women’s health facility in Montandon's honor at his clinic in Ahmedabad, India.