Editing Valerie Solanas (section)

=== Shooting ===
{{main|Attempted assassination of Andy Warhol}}
[[File:Andy Warhol by Jack Mitchell.jpg|thumb|[[Andy Warhol]] and his dachshund [[Archie Warhol]], 1973]]
On June 3, 1968, Valerie Solanas arrived at the [[Hotel Chelsea]] and asked for Girodias, who was unavailable. She stayed there for three hours before heading to the [[Grove Press]], where she asked for [[Barney Rosset]], who was also not available.<ref name="KaufmanRosset2004C-p202-3">{{harvp|Kaufman|Ortenberg|Rosset|2004|pp=202–203}}.</ref> In her 2014 biography of Solanas, Breanne Fahs argues that it is unlikely that she appeared at the Hotel Chelsea looking for Girodias, speculating that Girodias may have fabricated the account to boost sales for the ''SCUM Manifesto''.<ref name="Fahs_133">{{harvp|Fahs|2014|p=133}}.</ref> Instead, is believed to have been at the Actors Studio in Manhattan early that morning. Actress [[Sylvia Miles]] claimed Solanas arrived at the Actors Studio looking for [[Lee Strasberg]], asking to leave a copy of ''Up Your Ass''.<ref name="Fahs_133" /> Miles informed Solanas that Strasberg would not be in until the afternoon, accepted the script, and then shut the door because she knew Solanas was trouble.<ref name="Fahs_133" />

Solanas then visited producer [[Margo Feiden]] (then Margo Eden) in Brooklyn to convince her to produce ''Up Your Ass''. Feiden repeatedly refused to produce the play, so Solanas pulled out her gun and she promised to shoot Andy Warhol to make her and the play famous. As she left Feiden's residence, she handed her a partial copy of an earlier draft of the play and other personal papers.<ref>{{harvp|Fahs|2014|at=[https://books.google.com/books?id=h9ZWAwAAQBAJ&pg=PT323 footnote 198]}}.</ref><ref>{{harvp|Fahs|2014|pp=134–137}}.</ref> Feiden reported the incident to her local police precinct, but they responded with reluctance, stating that arresting someone because they believed she was going to kill Warhol was impossible.<ref name="Fahs_137">{{harvp|Fahs|2014|p=137}}.</ref> 

Solanas went to the Factory and waited outside for Andy to get money. Morrissey arrived and tried to get rid of her by telling her Warhol wouldn't be in that day.<ref name="KaufmanRosset2004C-p203">{{harvp|Kaufman|Ortenberg|Rosset|2004|p=203}}.</ref> She left but later entered the building with Warhol and Factory assistant [[Jed Johnson (designer)|Jed Johnson]].<ref>{{Cite web |last=Member |first=Samuel Spencer Newsweek Is A. Trust Project |date=2022-03-10 |title=When and Why Andy Warhol Was Shot |url=https://www.newsweek.com/andy-warhol-diaries-when-why-shot-valerie-solanas-netflix-1686744 |access-date=2025-04-22 |website=Newsweek |language=en}}</ref> While Warhol was on the phone, Solanas fired at him three times. Her first two shots missed, but the third went through his [[spleen]], [[stomach]], [[liver]], [[esophagus]], and [[lung|lungs]].<ref name="KaufmanRosset2004C-p202-3" /> She then also shot art critic [[Mario Amaya]].<ref name="Harding2010C">{{harvp|Harding|2010|pp=151–173}}.</ref> Warhol was taken to [[Cabrini Medical Center|Columbus–Mother Cabrini Hospital]] in critical condition, where he underwent a successful five-hour operation.<ref name="KaufmanRosset2004C-p202-3" /><ref>{{harvp|Dillenberger|2001|p=31}}.</ref>

Later that day, Solanas turned herself in to police, gave up her gun, and confessed to the shooting,<ref>{{harvp|Baer|1996|p=53}}.</ref> telling an officer that Warhol "had too much control in my life".<ref name="Harding2010B">{{harvp|Harding|2010|p=152}}.</ref> She was fingerprinted and charged with [[felonious assault]] and possession of a deadly weapon.<ref name="KaufmanRosset2004C-p204">{{harvp|Kaufman|Ortenberg|Rosset|2004|p=204}}.</ref> The next morning, the New York ''[[New York Daily News|Daily News]]'' ran the front-page headline: "Actress Shoots Andy Warhol". Solanas demanded a retraction of the statement that she was an actress. The ''Daily News'' changed the headline in its later edition and added a quote from Solanas stating, "I'm a writer, not an actress."<ref name="Harding2010B" />