10 Facts About Julia Phillips

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Julia Phillips was an American film producer and author.

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In 1991, Phillips published an infamous tell-all memoir of her years as a Hollywood producer, titled You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again, which became a bestseller.

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Julia Phillips was born Julia Miller to a Polish-Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Tanya and Adolph Miller.

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Julia Phillips's father was a chemical engineer who worked on the Manhattan Project; her mother was a writer who became addicted to prescription drugs.

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Julia Phillips grew up in Brooklyn; Great Neck, New York; and Milwaukee.

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Julia Phillips was a notorious drug user, which she chronicled in detail in her memoirs.

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In 1991, Julia Phillips published You'll Never Eat Lunch in This Town Again about her experiences in Hollywood.

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Julia Phillips died from cancer at her home in West Hollywood, California, on New Year's Day 2002, at the age of 57, and was interred in the Hillside Memorial Park Cemetery in Culver City, California.

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Julia Phillips had one daughter, Kate Phillips-Wiczyk, who is married to Modi Wiczyk, co-founder of independent film and television studio Media Rights Capital.

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Julia Phillips was a producer in all films unless otherwise noted.