 Known as "Modì" (which plays on the French word 'maudit', meaning 'cursed') by many Parisians, but as "Dedo" to his family and friends, Modigliani was a handsome man, and attracted much female attention.Women came and went until Beatrice Hastings entered his life.She stayed with him for almost two years, was the subject of several of his portraits, including "Madame Pompadour", and the object of much of his drunken wrath.