The Most Notorious Female Assassins In History

Plenty of female assassins have made it into the history books. Each one their own tale to tell, as they've wielded guns, blades, and other deadly weapons against some high-profile targets. Keep watching to discover the most notorious female assassins of all time.

Born in New Jersey in 1936 and played by Lili Taylor in the film I Shot Andy Warhol, Valerie Solanas was terrifyingly intelligent and fearless from a young age. A rebellious teenager, she thrived in college, enrolling in a master's program in psychology. But she dropped out after a year, drawn to the 1960s New York City art scene. She then started writing. Her SCUM Manifesto extolled the virtues of a world without men, and her play Up Your Ass featured a savvy lesbian sex worker. She tried to convince Andy Warhol to produce her play, but he had other plans. So on June 3, 1968, Solanas waited for Warhol outside his studio, and when he arrived, she joined him in the elevator and shot him.

"She drew her weapon and fired and shot Mr. Warhol, and then with the gun, she exited by way of the elevator, and she's disappeared at the present time."

Warhol survived but had to wear a surgical corset the rest of his life. Afterwards, Solanas wandered around outside, eventually confessing, saying that Warhol had too much control over her life. She was diagnosed as a paranoid schizophrenic, was institutionalized, and served some jail time. Much of her later life was spent homeless, and she died of pneumonia in San Francisco in 1988. Up Your Ass was finally staged posthumously at a San Francisco theater in 2000.

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