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Paul America (Paul Johnson) was born on 7 September, 1945 in New Jersey, USA, is an actor. Discover Paul America's Biography, Age, Height, Physical Stats, Dating/Affairs, Family and career updates. Learn How rich is he in this year and how he spends money? Also learn how he earned most of networth at the age of 37 years old?

Popular As Paul Johnson
Occupation actor
Age 37 years old
Zodiac Sign Virgo
Born 7 September 1945
Birthday 7 September
Birthplace New Jersey, USA
Date of death 19 October, 1982
Died Place Florida, USA
Nationality United States

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Paul America Height, Weight & Measurements

At 37 years old, Paul America height is 6' (1.83 m) .

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Height 6' (1.83 m)
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Dating & Relationship status

He is currently single. He is not dating anyone. We don't have much information about He's past relationship and any previous engaged. According to our Database, He has no children.

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Paul America Net Worth

His net worth has been growing significantly in 2023-2024. So, how much is Paul America worth at the age of 37 years old? Paul America’s income source is mostly from being a successful Actor. He is from United States. We have estimated Paul America's net worth, money, salary, income, and assets.

Net Worth in 2024 $1 Million - $5 Million
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Net Worth in 2023 Pending
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Timeline

1946

Warhol crowned him "Paul America," likely because of his having lived at the funky America Hotel on West 46th St.

1965

Paul Johnson, a strapping blonde young man from New Jersey, was reportedly discovered in mid-1965 by theatrical producer Lester Persky at the discotheque Ondine and brought to the attention of Andy Warhol at Warhol's "Factory" (work-living space). According to Warhol, "Paul was unbelievably good-looking - like a comic-strip drawing of Mr. America, clean-cut, handsome, very symmetrical. He seemed to be exactly six feet tall and weigh some nice round number. " He immediately moved into The Factory and became a part of the Warhol family of superstars, factotums and hangers-on, his contributions classed mostly in the latter category.

America wound up living at The Factory from 1965 to 1968, where Warhol only talked to him through intermediaries (even in his presence) as he believed Johnson to be a "fool. " According to Warhol superstar Ondine, "Paul America was everybody's lover. . . . He was the personification of total sexual satisfaction. Without a brain in his head. Just beautifully vapid. He was a wonderful creature. Anybody who wanted anything from Paul could get it. He was there to satisfy. And he did.

"The handsome youth was cast in the starring role of Warhol's 1965 film "My Hustler," his most famous role. A heavy user of LSD, America claimed that he didn't even remember the shoot, and was barely conscious that he was in a movie. The anti-romantic film, which consists of two 33-minute long takes (the length of a 1,200-ft. reel of 16-mm film, which Warhol, the cameraman/director, exposed continuously) is considered a landmark of gay cinema and ranks, with his "Chelsea Girls," as the most financially successful of Warhol's early narrative films. The film made America a gay icon. He appeared in two unreleased Warhol sequels, ('My Hustler: In Apartment' and 'My Hustler: Ingrid'), as well as Dan Williams' silent film 'Harold Stevenson. 'America and Edie Sedgwick -- another Factory regular -- became lovers, united in their common lust for drugs, and they lived together for a brief time at New York's Chelsea Hotel. They indulged heavily in speed as classic co-dependents. According to Sedgwick, "I'm not sure what attracted me to him unless it was a kind of admiration brought about by the drugs which I was so heavily inundated by. "However, while they were together, America kept Sedgwick from being exploited. Their relationship was an on-again/off-again affair, as America continually left New York for the country (his brother owned a farm in Indiana). Eventually, friction over control issues forced them apart. Years later, America appeared with Sedgwick in the long-gestated film "Ciao Manhattan," his second and last film role. In the movie, he played a drug dealer ingeniously named "Paul America. " In a scene in which he chauffeured a character to the Pan Am building, America drove off the set and vanished. The filmmakers finally found him in a Michigan jail as he had been busted driving back to his brother's farm in Indiana. The filmmakers had to finish filming his scenes in jail. America eventually became a violent sociopath, and was banished from the Warhol fold for good.

1977

America and a cohort robbed art curator Henry Geldzahler's apartment, and stole Warhol alumnus Billy Name's collection of Warhol paintings in 1977.

1980

Geldzahler reported that by the early 1980s, America "was a wasted creature after they [Warhol's crowd] had finished with him. They finally washed their hands of him and let him float away. He's a poor burned-out thing living in a commune in Indiana and trying to pull himself together.

1982

Died after being hit by a car while returning from a dental appointment on October 19, 1982 in Florida.