Brigid Emmett Berlin (September 6, 1939 – July 17, 2020) was an American artist and Warhol superstar . September 6, 1939 to December 1, 1952 (randomly chosen). 13 years old 2 mos.

So right around the time of the Korean War she is old enough to get a sense of what these figures are talking about. Nixon, Duke of Windsor, J. Edgar Hoover, etc., In addition to taking the calls and social affaris at Hearst Castle (still active but no new construction) she is a part of the mixers and also collecting letters between these figures and her parents, important cold war information.

In 1975, Brigid Berlin began work as a permanent employee for Andy Warhol’s Interview magazine, a position that she held until well after Warhol’s death. Berlin transcribed interviews as well as knitted under the desk. Patricia Hearst (a close friend of Berlin who began work at Interview in 1988) observed “On my first day at work, I noticed two small pugs who seemed to have the run of the castle. They belonged to a woman who sat behind the front desk every day from 9:00 to 5:00, but who never seemed to answer the phone. Instead, she compulsively knitted, ate bags of candy and tended lovingly to the dogs.” [If I am following this right this is Patty Hearst describing the Hearst Castele with Brigid Berlin taking the phone calls as an employee of Hearst Communications.]

At 23 in 1964 she joins up with Andy Warhol. After several years as a reluctant debutante and a failed marriage, Brigid Berlin met Andy Warhol in 1964 and quickly became a central member of his entourage. After moving to Hotel Chelsea, she took on the nickname Brigid Polk because of her habit of giving out ‘pokes’, injections of Vitamin B and amphetamines. These injections were readily available through the many ‘Doctor Feelgoods’ in New York and perfectly legal

In 1919 he joined the Hearst Corporation, where he stayed until his retirement in 1973. In 1941 William Randolph Hearst personally chose him as successor to his role.[1] In 1942 Berlin became president of the company and after Hearst’s death in 1951 he became chief executive officer.

By the late 1930s the Great Depression and Hearst’s profligacy had brought him to the brink of financial ruin.[82] Debts totaled $126 million.[j][84] He was compelled to cede financial control of the Hearst Corporation, newspapers and radio stations were sold, and much of his art collection was dispersed in a series of sales, often for considerably less than he had paid. Hearst railed against his losses, and the perceived incompetence of the sales agents, Parish-Watson & Co.: “they greatly cheapened them and us, (he) advertises like a bargain basement sale. I am heartbroken”.[85] Construction at Hearst Castle virtually ceased. After Pearl Harbor the castle was closed up and Hearst and Davies moved to Wyntoon which was perceived to be less vulnerable to enemy attack.[86] They returned in 1945 and construction on a limited scale recommenced, finally ending in 1947.[87] In early May of that year, with his health declining, Hearst and Davies left the castle for the last time.[88] The pair settled in at 1007 North Beverly Drive in Beverly Hills.[89] Hearst died in 1951,[k] his death abruptly severing him from Davies, who was excluded from the funeral by Hearst’s family – “For thirty-two years I had him, and they leave me with his empty room”.[91] In 1950 Julia Morgan closed her San Francisco office after a career of forty-two years. Ill health circumscribed her retirement and she died, a virtual recluse, in early 1957.[92]

In 1958 the Hearst Corporation donated Hearst Castle, its gardens, and many of its contents, to the state of California.

No while the daugter of Berlin she did not take pone calls till working for Interview it looks like As a child she answered calls for her parents but not as an employee.

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