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There, Babitz found the ideal milieu for her free-form libertinism, sharing pitchers of Schlitz at Barney’s Beanery with the emergent artists of the decade — Ed Ruscha, Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell — and famously posed nude while playing chess with Marcel Duchamp at a local art museum in 1963.

"I had sent nude photos with my face in them," she said.

A police affidavit from that investigation appeared to show that Torres was being blackmailed by a 21-year-old Chicago man he had shared nude photos and explicit text conversations with, the Spotlight reported.

The gallery owner said nude images were always shown in her gallery and she "didn't think anything of it".

The gallery walls are now adorned with 50 images of naked men and women from 30 artists, including a full-frontal male nude which has been placed in the window.