Frederick Hughes; Andy Warhol’s Business Manager

Frederick Hughes, 57, longtime business manager for the late artist Andy Warhol. In addition to serving as the colorful Warhol’s business manager from the late 1960s until the pop artist’s death in 1987, Hughes was executor of Warhol’s will. Hughes is considered the driving force behind the 1994 creation of the Andy Warhol Museum in Warhol’s native Pittsburgh. Brought up in Texas, Hughes studied art history, and met Warhol on a trip to New York City, quickly relocating there to work for him. After Warhol’s death, Hughes masterminded the highly publicized 1988 Sotheby’s auction of some of the artist’s personal effects, which netted more than $20 million. On Jan. 13 in New York of complications from multiple sclerosis.