It’s been a bad week all around, and on the personal front there is the shocking news of the death of Jacques Silberstein, a puckish French fashion photographer and later, Los Angeles-based painter. I first met Jacques while researching Model, and he remained a friend (he’s pictured at the Unreal Estate book party at the Doheny family’s Greystone estate in Beverly Hills). Jacques’ father, a Parisian real estate executive, backed a model agency there, and his young son worked at Christa Models, fell in love with one of its faces, the future actress Lorraine Bracco, and eventually ran the agency with his brother Dominique Silberstein. As an eyewitness to both the excitement and egregious excess of the modeling milieu in the 1970s, Silberstein was a vital–and on the record–source for me, and appears in a look back at some of the worst behavior of those times that’s about to be published in the spring issue of Park Magazine, previewed today by Richard Johnson in the Daily News (hit read more to see the second item in the column). Condolences to Jacques’ wife, Princess Francesca Drommi Partillo.