'He stole some Warhols, but he also took the sterling silver Elsa Peretti candlesticks on the table,' Gaines told Vanity Fair. Despite this Hugo stole from Halston to feed his drug habit. Indeed he continue to fund his lifestyle after they broke up, paying for his housing. The couple eventually stopped sleeping together but Halston struggled to make a clean break from Hugo. The pair enjoyed hosting after-parties at Halston's New York townhouseĪs someone else put it: 'Victor had the keys to the safe with the cocaine'. Lavish lifestyle: Halston, left, and Victor Hugo at a gala at the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York in 1980. The couple became regulars at Studio 54 and hosted after-parties at Halston's Upper East Side townhouse that reportedly featured 'man-on-man orgies late into the night Warhol enjoyed photographing from the sidelines.' Over the next 10 years, Halston followed Hugo down a path of drug-fuelled destruction and funded his lavish tastes. The call-boy, then 24, told the designer his name was Victor Hugo, in reference to his manhood. 'One night in 1972, the young man who showed up at Halston’s apartment from the call-boy service changed his life.' 'Joe Eula, the fashion illustrator and one of Halston’s closest confidants, took to calling this practice “dial-a-steak, dial-a-d**k,” which Halston thought was hysterically funny. Steven Gaines, author of biography Simply Halston, on which the Netflix show is based, recalls: 'He would perhaps order them both a steak and a baked potato delivered up, then take them to bed and show them the door. The pair met in 1972 through a call-boy service Halston used following the breakdown of his relationship with menswear buyer Ed Austin. Venezuelan sex worker Victor Hugo was Halston's on-off boyfriend of over a decade. Call-boy: The pair met in 1972 through a call-boy service Halston used following the breakdown of his relationship with Ed Austin.