- She was unapologetic about her heroin addiction. She wrote at length about heroin and advocated this for legal recreational use in the United States, as well as romanticized its effects.
- Wrote a screenplay for a biography of adult film actor John Holmes, which was to have starred Christopher Walken in the lead.
- Best known by the public for her role as Thana, the mute seamstress turned vigilante in Abel Ferrara's cult classic Ms .45 (1981).
- Wrote an early, unused draft of New Rose Hotel (1998), which was eventually filmed by her longtime friend and collaborator Abel Ferrara.
- Briefly attended the Manhattan School of Music; she dropped out after two months.
- She resided and worked under many assumed names such as Vanessa Lancaster and Tamara Tamarind.
- Daughter of sculptor Barbara Lekberg.
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