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Domino Harvey Biography

Domino's mother was a Vogue cover girl who embodied Swinging London in the 1960s.

Laurence Harvey died of stomach cancer in 1973, when Domino was 4. He left a sizable inheritance, ensuring that she would be financially well off. It did not fill the void created by her father's death. By her teens, Harvey had been kicked out of four elite boarding schools.

At 16, she settled down at the Dartington Hall School in southwestern England and cultivated a skill that would prove useful later. "I spent my time making canoes and studying martial arts," she told London's Mail on Sunday newspaper in 1994. "It was really relaxed."

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In the early '80s, her mother married Peter Morton, founder of the Hard Rock Café and Hotel chain, and moved to Los Angeles. Harvey, a teenager at the time, stayed behind, moving into an apartment in London's Notting Hill Gate neighborhood.

A mythology grew up that like her mother, Domino was a model and that, unlike her mother, she had turned her back on the glamour of the runway for a fringe existence. But according to several family members and friends, Harvey never worked as a model.

She did show an entrepreneurial spirit, designing a funky clothing line and selling it at the Kensington Market. "She also ran one of the first clubs in London to do with the dance music scene," said Michael John Galvin, a British attorney who was a friend of Harvey from her London days and now lives in L.A.

Even then she was battling drug addiction. At 17, she visited her uncle and aunt in Israel, seeking to get to know members of her father's family. While there, she sneaked away to score drugs, recalled Nachshon Sneh, an Israeli cousin.

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