New film to lay Warhol and Dupont twins bare

Andy Warhol is to be immortalised once more in film. According to reports in America, a movie based on the experiences of the Dupont twins, a pair of chancers who fleetingly joined the pop artist's entourage back in the Seventies, will go into production later this year. The flick, as yet untitled, promises some fascinating insights into Warhol's life and working practices.

Richard and Robert Dupont - their real name was Lasko, but that was quickly dropped in favour of the classier French handle - were introduced to Warhol in 1977 when they were ripe 17-year-olds. The artist, then in his late 40s, took to the twins immediately. Richard told New York magazine last October: "He would kiss me, and yes he touched me. He would sometimes jerk me off."

According to the brothers, sexual favours were traded for cocaine and money. The lads would often receive $100 from Warhol at the end of the night, or, if they were really lucky, a Chairman Mao silk screen might be handed over. (Hopefully they took him up on the offer - they now sell for £10m-plus).

The Dupont boys, or rather men - the twins are now touching 50 - were also used by Warhol to tout for work at the legendary nightclub Studio 54, haunt of Mick Jagger, Truman Capote and Salvador Dali (of whom more later). Richard says: "He would say, 'Can we get one of those rich men you're sleeping with to buy a portrait?' And later it was more like, 'Why don't you go sleep with that one, and then talk him into getting a portrait.' We did that a lot."

Back to Dali. "Sometimes we'd be in the back of the limo," says Richard, "and Dalí would say, 'Pull it out, pull it out'... One time I did it for Andy and Dali together. We were in a black limousine, going uptown on Park Avenue South. I don't know why Andy grabbed me; maybe he was trying to get Dali turned on, or maybe he just wanted to show that he had control." The film - if it happens - won't be one for the kids, then.