They were totally clueless when they appropriated Adam Purple's name just to sell burgers and cocktails. The Gerber Group might want to rename the Mr Purple bar the Purple Pedophile. Being abused as a child does not excuse anything, and not everyone who was abused goes on to have orgies with their own children. The Villager almost tries to rationalize Adam's behavior by saying he was sexually abused as a child. It's not OK, as his children have revealed their pain and scars last a lifetime. Adam Purple is not much different, but will people now rush to defend the good things he did while ignoring the bad? To say he was complicated is to say it's OK to dismiss child abuse if you later do things that the clueless public - who knows nothing about you - thinks are cool. If they didn't have so much talent, fame and money I doubt anyone would rush to defend their offenses. Look at how society treats predators like Roman Polanski, Woody Allen and, until recently, Bill Cosby. We often try to overlook or minimize the sins of very talented people, as if the crimes of untalented people are somehow worse. What he did to his daughters was horrific, and his work building a few community gardens hardly makes up for the fact he was a convicted pedophile. The Adam Purple bubble has officially burst. Purple continue efforts to be part of the LES neighborhood (25 comments) Purple (23 comments)Īs the Hotel Indigo and Mr. The Gerber Group responds to criticism over Mr. The upscale hotel bar with a pool named for the late environmentalist Adam Purple (44 comments) Hopefully, the two narratives can somehow coexist and inform: on the one hand, the story of a family that finally healed from domestic sexual abuse, and, on the other, a man who built a new life for himself - and a glorious garden - on the Lower East Side and left a lasting legacy of environmental consciousness. and that his mother was also a victim of "generational sexual abuse." One of the daughters, Jenean, told The Villager that Purple himself was sexually abused by his mother as a child. (In a letter dated from March 1967, Purple proclaimed his innocence to the children’s maternal grandparents, "asserting that his second wife was not a fit guardian for his daughters.") I read ‘The Kinsey Report’ when I was age 10.”Īccording to Australian court documents obtained by The Villager, Purple served a two-year prison sentence for the molestation charges at Long Bay Penitentiary in Sydney. He trained us, with pornography magazines, films, comics.
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31 titled "The dark side of Purple." Editor Lincoln Anderson puts together the activist's past through a series of phone conversations and an exchange of documents and letters with Purple's two daughters, step-sisters Jenean and Lenore, who say that their father sexually abused them while growing up in Australia in the 1960s.Īsked what specifically Purple did to them or had them do, said, “Oh, everything - that’s what we were about - our purpose. He and I were not close, but this is horrifying and I've been sick to my stomach for the last 24 hours over it."ģ) There's a lengthy investigation in the current issue of The Villager dated Dec.
28, Mason wrote, "I only found out about this travesty. However, a fancy hotel bar is not the right vehicle. Believe me, I would love for David’s legacy to be memorialized, and I’m happy that he achieved notoriety enough to be considered for exploitation by a midtown corporate property development committee. 28, BoweryBoogie posted an op-ed written by Purple's grandson, Steve Mason. Purple, whose birth name was David Wilkie, in 1977. “The gentrification, the consumerism, it’s the opposite of everything he stood for,” said the photographer Harvey Wang, who began documenting Mr. Purple - a dedicated ascetic who lived in an abandoned tenement, got water from a hydrant, read by candlelight and kept warm with a wood-burning stove - is an odd symbol for a 24-story hotel with “spalike bathrooms” and a terrace swimming pool. 26, The New York Times published an article titled " Meant as Homage, Bar’s Naming for Downtown Squatter Is Perceived as a Slight."īy nearly any measure, Mr. Purple, aka David Wilkie, was an environmentalist and activist known for his elaborate Garden of Eden on the Lower East Side. There were three articles published during the last week of 2015 related to Adam Purple's legacy, including the new bar operated by the Gerber Group that bears his name at the Hotel Indigo on Ludlow Street.
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