Background
Foxe was born Kathleen Victoria Hetzekian in Santa Monica, California, to an Armenian family. She grew up as an army brat in an abusive household.
Foxe was born Kathleen Victoria Hetzekian in Santa Monica, California, to an Armenian family. She grew up as an army brat in an abusive household.
She is the mother of Mia Tyler. After graduating high school, she lived in Texas briefly before settling in New York City, where she got a job working as an assistant to Greta Garbo. She later changed her name and began frequenting Max"s Kansas City, the famous nightclub, and became an actress.
Foxe is best known for her role in Andy Warhol"s Bad (1977).
Foxe had an affair with David Bowie, while working as a publicist for MainMan Artistes Limited, Bowie"s management company. She also appeared in the music video for Bowie"s 1973 single, "The Jean Genie".
Foxe was described as being "bright, very magnetic," and having "an effervescence about her." And that "she was very much a character of her own creation."
Foxe grew up idolizing the Rolling Stones. She later became involved with the New York Dolls, a protopunk band often compared to the Stones.
In 1977, after years of dating, Cyrinda married David Johansen, the singer for the New York Dolls.
lieutenant was while Foxe was married to Johansen that she met Aerosmith"s lead singer, Steven Tyler. After less than a year of marriage to Johansen, Foxe left him for Steven Tyler. She raised Mia in Sunapee, New Hampshire and New York City.
In 1997, Foxe"s memoir, Dream On: Livin" on the Edge with Steven Tyler and Aerosmith, co-written with Danny Fields, was published.
In 2000, she launched a web site in which she was selling nude pictures of Tyler, but by the end of the year, the site closed. In 2001, Foxe had a mild stroke.
She received Medicare and food stamps but she had no apartment or place to live. Myra Freidman organized a benefit at CBGB to raise money for Foxe.
David Bowie also donated an acoustic guitar.
Foxe died from an inoperable brain tumor on September 7, 2002.