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#MALE SOCIALITE STOCK PHOTO SERIES#

He was taken up by a series of wealthy male and female patrons.

Fouts left for Manhattan, working for a time as a stock boy and attracting a good deal of attention for his looks, which were described as 'thin as a hieroglyph, he had dark hair, light brown eyes, and a cleft chin.' Writer Glenway Wescott considered him 'absolutely enchanting and ridiculously good-looking.' Later he was sent north by his father to Washington, D.C., having asked a relative, who was the president of Safeway Inc., to give him a job. In his teens, Fouts worked as a clerk at an ice-cream company in Jacksonville. In 1926, 12-year-old Fouts submitted a letter to Time magazine, protesting the abuse of animals in the making of movies. He had two siblings, Ellen (born 1916) and Frederic (1918–1994). He was allegedly a lover of Prince Paul of Greece and French actor Jean Marais.įrom Jacksonville, Florida, he was born Louis Denham Fouts, a son of Yale graduate Edwin Fouts, who was the president of a broom factory, and his wife, the former Mary E. He served as the inspiration for characters by Truman Capote, Gore Vidal, Christopher Isherwood, and Gavin Lambert. Male prostitute, socialite, literary museĭenham 'Denny' Fouts (– Decem) was an American male prostitute, socialite, and literary muse.

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