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In 1983, in the wake of the legal battle over ownership of the photos, artist Richard Prince photographed one of Gross' photos of the 10-year-old Shields standing naked in a bathtub. Prince had found the picture in a copy of Gross' self-published book Little Women he then blew it up to 8x10 inch print. Put it in a gold frame, a Prince reproduction of the Gross photo was the sole work displayed in his first "Spiritual America" exhibition at store-front art gallery on the Lower East Side of Manhattan.^[1]

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In 1983, in the wake of the legal battle over ownership of the photos, artist Richard Prince photographed one of Gross' photos of the 10-year-old Shields standing naked in a bathtub. He developed it, put it in a gilding frame and, displayed it without labelling or explanation, in a shopfront in a then rundown street in Lower East Side of Manhattan.^[2] FriendlyFigment (talk) 02:00, 8 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Done — 🪫Volatile ^{📲T | ⌨️C} 03:04, 11 July 2025 (UTC)Reply

Scotch-Irish???

Latest comment: 11 months ago1 comment1 person in discussion

Scotch is a drink not an ethnicity. Ms Shields is part Scots-Irish. Please correct this. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 2001:BB6:B407:29CE:97AF:95A0:76CA:77A7 (talk) 18:51, 31 August 2025 (UTC)Reply

References

↑ "Lot 19. PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION RICHARD PRINCE (B. 1949) Spiritual America". christies.com. Christie's. Retrieved 16 October 2023.
↑ Higgins, Charlotte; Dodd, Vikram (September 30, 2009). "Tate Modern removes naked Brooke Shields picture after police visit". The Guardian.

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first intercourse

Latest comment: 5 months ago3 comments3 people in discussion

The sentence stating that she “did her first sexual intercourse” with Dean Cain seems unnecessarily explicit and potentially inappropriate for a biographical entry.

Per Wikipedia’s policies on Biographies of Living Persons (BLP) and undue weight, intimate sexual details that are not central to a person’s notability may not belong in the article unless there is strong sourcing and clear encyclopedic relevance. I suggest either removing this sentence or rephrasing it in a more neutral and less explicit manner. ~2026-11948-82 (talk) 22:11, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

Yeah, remove this please. I was just struck by how inappropriate this is and came to say exactly this.

There is no reason any actor's intimate details should be included in their Wikipedia entry and in fact I've never seen anything like this before. ~2026-11985-29 (talk) 22:40, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

I agree with you both and have removed it. Schazjmd (talk) 23:00, 22 February 2026 (UTC)Reply

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Change "Brooke Christa Shields" to "Brooke Christa Camille Shields" in the lead section, as her full legal name is Brooke Christa Camille Shields, supported by reliable sources such as Britannica. ~2026-18496-51 (talk) 02:41, 25 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

Not done: please provide reliable sources that support the change you want made. Day Creature (talk) 03:26, 25 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

To clarify for the requester, there is no consensus on whether Encyclopedia Britannica is considered a reliable source, and secondary sources are preferred to tertiary sources like Encyclopedia Britannica, where available. Umby 🌕🐶 (talk) 03:40, 25 March 2026 (UTC)Reply

[Lot_19-1] "Lot 19. PROPERTY FROM A PRIVATE NEW YORK COLLECTION RICHARD PRINCE (B. 1949) Spiritual America". christies.com. Christie's. Retrieved 16 October 2023.

[2] Higgins, Charlotte; Dodd, Vikram (September 30, 2009). "Tate Modern removes naked Brooke Shields picture after police visit". The Guardian.

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