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Former restaurateur Keith McNally has recalled Patti Smith and her former partner, Robert Mapplethorpe's alleged behavior towards the restaurant staff in the 70s.

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Patti Smith and Robert Mapplethorpe met ... years of her relationship with Mapplethorpe as a time of creative intensity. “He really felt a calling within him to be an artist.