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The Paris photographer called to say that he would like to take a family portrait. Wallis Franken Montana, the vivacious American former model popular in the haute world of French fashion and married to designer Claude Montana, thought that meant he wanted her to pose with her two grown daughters from a former liaison and her two grandchildren.

But the photographer had something else in mind, Wallis later confided to a friend.

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He told her that he wanted to shoot her with Claude, Claude's latest boyfriend, and the new young fitting model who Wallis feared might be taking her place with the mercurial designer.

In the three years since she had married the hard-partying and openly gay Montana in a wedding that stunned even the normally blasé fashion world, Wallis Franken had endured terrible physical and emotional abuse from her complicated and unconventional husband.

Friends had begged her to leave him, but she told them that she was "obsessed" with Montana. She had