Nikos Papatakis & Nico

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Nico and Nico Papatakis  
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Nikos Papatakis and Nico dated from 1960 to August, 1962.

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French Director Nikos Papatakis was born on 19th July, 1918 in Addis Ababa, Ethiopian Empire and passed away on 17th Dec 2010 Paris, France aged 92. He is most remembered for Oi voskoi (1967), I fotografia (1987) and Gloria mundi (1976).. His zodiac sign is Cancer.

German Actress Nico was born Christa Päffgen on 16th October, 1938 in Cologne, Germany and passed away on 18th Jul 1988 Ibiza, Spain aged 49. She is most remembered for Singer, model, actress, Andy Warhol superstar, cameo in "La Dolce Vita. Her zodiac sign is Libra.

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Relationship Statistics

StatusDurationLength
Dating1960 - Aug 1962 2 years, 7 months
Total 1960 - Aug 1962 2 years, 7 months


Info from "Nico: The Life and Lies of an Icon" by Richard Witts. Chapter 4 (1960-1964), pages 68, 69, 70
Nico Papatakis says: "It was 1960, I was living at the time in New York, though I also had an apartment in Paris. [...] We were sat around this big table - [Dick] Avedon, [China] Machado, the models, me - and all of a sudden China called to me, "Nico!" At that moment the girl next to me at the table turned and stared at me. "Nico?" I said yes. "You live in Paris?" Yes. "Did you have a nightclub?" I did. She replied, "My name`s Nico too, because of you". From that moment we were never separated. For two years we chose to live together, Nico and Nico. Until that business with Delon".
Nico Papatakis was then 42, an allurgingly handsome man whom Nico would have wished to seduce, however weak her opening line.
[...]
"We lived together, Nico and Nico," Papatakis recalled. "Whenever anybody called out "Nico!" we`d both look round. it was strange, certainly, but rather beautiful to have this little game between us". [...] their relationship was "playful and innocent with bouts of rage", according to their friends, "more brother and sister than husband and wife; they were more like siblings than lovers".
[...]
Papatakis accepted the stangeness of Nico because he was overwhelmed by her astonishing physical beauty: "Nico`s looks were sensational. She was never what you could call a classic beauty, but entirely unique. Peculiar. I couldn`t get over how the structure of her face, rhythmically speaking, was so exceptional, and then these huge bones... But she couldn`t rely on this look for her life. I saw that there would have to be a change in her career. Models soon come to an end. It starts in their early twenties, and I wanted Nico to prepare for this. This wasn`t easy because she never even took her modelling seriously, though she was professional. She was ambitious. She wanted to be an artist... it`s not surprising because there were artists all around her throughout her life... somehow an artist.
[In early 1962] Nico Papatakis was still Nico`s partner, but he learned of the pregnancy after all the others. "I was in Paris at the time, dealing with Cassavetes` film, Shadows. If i remember correctly, Nico was in Paris but she telephoned me. She was very strange, it was obviously a hard thing for her to admit. She said, "I`m pregnant and the father is Delon." OK, I said, if you love the man and you want to keep the child, it`s up to you. "I want to keep the baby," she answered. I said, are you sure? "Yes, yes", why? "Because I want to take the baby to Alain Delon and show him and marry him" I was surprised. I said, OK, but we`ll separate. We had to separate because of what she had said, which was dangerous. Then i warned her, I really warned her, "This man has had many affairs, and he couldn`t care less. Please don`t try
any blackmail on Delon. Don`t blackmail him." The whole thing to her was not like something in reality, but like something in a film.
Christian Aaron Päffgen was born on 9 August 1962 in Paris and Nico Papatakis witnessed the birth. Carlos Maldonado-Bostock recalls: "Papatakis was a decent chap. He had integrity in the matter. I think he only wanted to see that Nico was treated right. He had lived with her for two years, and he was kind to her in all that time. I think they had a romantic liaison with very little physical intimacy. He was simply being honourable, unlike Delon".
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Nico left the clinic and stayed with her mother at a fine studio in the Marais that Papatakis had leased for her.

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Name
Nikos Papatakis
Nico
Nikos Papatakis
Nico
Age (at start of relationship)
41
21
Zodiac
Cancer
Libra
Occupation
Director
Actress
Hair Color
Salt and Pepper
Blonde
Nationality
French
German

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