Viva (I)

Viva was born Janet Susan Mary Hoffman, the first child of a devout Catholic family. Her father, a well-to-do lawyer, and her mother had eight more children. She told her mentor, Andy Warhol, that her father was a religious fanatic and her mother worshiped the Irish-Catholic Witch-Finder General Joseph McCarthy, insisting that the children watch the televised Army-McCarthy hearings of 1954... See full bio »