1971 (top)
Kain met the Russian ballet
icon Rudolf Nureyev when
they danced together in
The Sleeping Beauty. “Even
though I was too tall for him,
he handled me superbly,” she
says. “I was brave with him.
He’d give me a charge and
I’d charge him right back.”1980 (bottom)
After a performance of Swan
Lake at the Met, Nureyev
invited Kain to a party at the
Shah of Iran’s New York apart-
ment. They mingled with
dozens of celebrities, includ-
ing Kiss’s Gene Simmons in
ghoulish makeup. The party
was also the first time she
met Andy Warhol—“He
was weird,” she says. One
Sunday afternoon, she went
down to Warhol’s Factory
Studio so he could photo-
graph her for one of his
iconic portraits. “He was
walking round and round
me and muttering things
I couldn’t understand,” she
says. “I had so many extra-
ordinary experiences just
because Rudolf would drag
me along to everything.”reader’s digest
70 may 2020