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Twig lit

I t's almost 50 years since I became Twiggy's first ghostwriter. Of course it was Justin who brokered the deal.

Justin de Villeneuve (né Nigel John Davies from Edmonton) was no longer her Svengali/boyfriend, but he was still running ‘Twiggy Enterprises’.

Her autobiography would be a slim volume, we joked. All royalties would go to Twiggy Enterprises (sadly for me, as the book, Twiggy by Twiggy, 1975, did rather well).

She was three years younger than me and three stone lighter. We knew the same London suburbs,

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