Frederick W. Hughes

Frederick W. Hughes (July 29, 1943 – January 14, 2001), known as Fred Hughes, was an American businessman and collector. Best known as the longtime business manager of Pop artist Andy Warhol, Hughes played a key role in managing Warhol's finances, cultivating elite patrons, and professionalizing Warhol's commercial operations in the United States and Europe. He later served as publisher of Interview magazine and, following Warhol's death in 1987, was appointed executor of the artist's estate and founding chairman of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, a position from which he was removed in 1992 after internal disputes with the foundation's president, Archibald L. Gillies, whom Hughes had appointed. He suffered from multiple sclerosis in his later years and died in 2001.