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School. She went on to earn a degree
from Michigan State University and
attended law school for a year at the
University of Miami. While in law
school, she married a fellow student,
and they relocated to Georgia.
With a love of music and some legal
). experience, Sarko enrolled at the
University of Georgia to study the busi-
ness side of the music industry, where
she hoped to make a career. She land-
ed a behind-the-scenes job at the cam-
pus radio station but — thanks to her
Midwestern accent and low-pitched
voice — soon found herself on the air.
Sarko became radio's "bad girl" in
. Georgia. What set her apart from the
other DJs was her wealth of musical
knowledge. "I didn't realize how much I
knew about music until I got out of
Detroit. I played hard rock like Iggy
Pop and I knew a lot about R&B. Most
women on the radio had really soft taste
whereas I was tough and acted like I
knew what I was doing," Sarko says.
When her marriage ended — and
/-
with the encouragement of her former
brother-in-law, who impressed upon her
the value of her vast musical knowledge
— the 26-year-old headed to the city
that never sleeps.
Shortly after arriving in New York,
she met the famously eccentric artist
Andy Warhol. "I walked into this
restaurant and there was Andy at the
prime table," Sarko recalls. "Everyone
said, 'You have to meet Andy.'
"It was common knowledge that
you were 'somebody' not if you just
knew Andy, but if you were invited to
sit at his table. I came to New York
just to get a job. The irony was that
years later, not only was I asked to sit
at Andy's table, I was asked to sit next
to him. Subsequently, through his
Diaries, I discovered that in fact Andy
was excited to meet me."
Not only did Sarko find her name
in the pages of The Andy Warhol
Diaries, years later, as outlined in his
will, she also provided the music for
Warhol's star-studded New York wake
following his funeral.
In 1979, Sarko began spinning her
own special brand of punk and new
wave music at the Mudd Club, the
venue that would later be billed as the
place Madonna got her start. It wasn't
until 1985, however, when she started
working at the Palladium, that she
met a man who changed her life:
Studio 54 impresario Steve Rubell.
"The first week I worked with him
he taught me more about clubs than I
had learned in seven years," she says.
She remembers him as a caring, Jewish
man who loved his family. A far
stretch from his public persona and
way off the mark from his portrayal in
the recent film 54. "Any sort of a feel-
ing that most people get about this
man is so off the mark," explains
Sarko. " He absolutely worshipped his
family and all of his old friends were
treated like royalty. "
Sarko started her writing career in
1985 for a magazine called New York
Talk. She was prompted to write
when an editor at the magazine told
her "she never shut up — and that
was the first sign of a writer." Since
then she has freelanced for many pub-
lications, including Seventeen, Spin,
Interview and Playboy.
Her current stint as Paper's nightlife
maven started 2 1/2 years ago with an
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