By Daniel Bates UPDATED: 07:43 EST, 11 August 2011 One of the world’s most acclaimed artists has admitted to having an ‘non platonic’ affair with a former Vogue writer, even though both of them are married and even though she has denied it. Abstract painter Brice Marden, 72, admitted to trysts with Helen Lee Schifter, who is 18 years his junior, behind the back of his wife, also called Helen. The affair is said to have gone on for more than a year and culminated in an extraordinary fight at an exclusive Manhattan restaurant between the two Helens. Man in the middle: Painter Brice Marden has admitted to a year-long affair with Helen Lee Schifter, left
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Helen Lee Schifter claims relationship with Brice Marden was merely artist and muse
The row has apparently been common knowledge among @placeholder's art world cognoscenti for some time, but was only now burst into the open.