Who is PR icon Kelly Cutrone?

I've been fascinated with Kelly Cutrone, fashion PR extraordinaire, since first meeting her berating Lauren Conrad on The Hills. Since then she's made frequent appearances on Whitney Port-vehicle The City as well, always playing a supporting but vital role.

Now she has her own show on Bravo, chronicling the inner-workings of her PR firm People's Revolution. Fashionista.com called Kell On Earth the most realistic depiction of the fashion industry to be seen on reality TV yet, which is perhaps why a few people I've talked to didn't like it. They were expecting glamour and instead were faced with Kelly, in her unwashed hair, disheveled clothing, no make-up glory.

The revelation on the show that Cutrone has a daughter made me realize that (a) she's not the Power Lesbian I always assumed she was and (b) there's a lot I don't know about her. And so the googling began...

• She came to New York at 21 from Syracuse, where she was raised.
• She immediately met writer Anthony Haden-Guest and moved into his apartment. Through Haden-Guest, she was hired as the assistant of famous publicist Susan Blond.
• At 22, she married Andy Warhol protege Ronnie Cutrone. He described her at that age as "wild, ambitious, volatile, sexual. Sex and the City looks like a ridiculous joke compared to what Kelly was!"
• By her 20s, she was one-half of the successful PR company Cutrone & Weinberg. Her partner Jason Weinberg was a former Blond intern and now is a prominent talent manager in LA.
• She was unhappy with the company, and used drugs to keep up with her lifestyle. She sold her half of the biz to Weinberg and moved west.
• For a year and a half, she was a tarot card reader on Venice Beach. No joke.
• She had a short-lived record deal with Atlantic based on a demo of her chanting over a friend's band's "groove"
• She was married a second time, to an actor.
• The father of her 7-year-old daughter Ava is Ilario Calvo, an Italian she met in Paris. They broke up three months into her pregnancy.
• For several years, she's been dating music producer Jimmy Boyle, who lives in LA.
• At the time of the article I found, an Argentinean male model she discovered in Mexico City was living with her and her daughter in Soho, along with a 7-year-old Native-American girl who is the granddaughter of former boyfriend and Native-American activisit John Trudell (who also happened to be dating Angelina Jolie's mother at the time of her death). What an odd household!
• She meditates daily and consults a yogi every Saturday at midnight.

Suffice to say, she's lived quite an interesting life.

Source: "Dark Angel of the Hills"