 In her 2014 biography , Valerie Solanas , Breanne Fahs argues that it is unlikely that Solanas appeared at the Chelsea Hotel looking for Girodias . Fahs states that Girodias may have fabricated the account in order to boost sales of the SCUM Manifesto , which he had published . Fahs states that " the more likely story ... places Valerie at the Actor 's Studio at 432 West Forty @-@ Fourth Street early that morning . " Actress Sylvia Miles states that Solanas appeared at the Actor 's Studio looking for Lee Strasberg , asking to leave her play for him . Miles said that Solanas " had a different look , a bit tousled , like somebody whose appearance is the last thing on her mind . " Miles told Solanas that Strasberg would not be in until the afternoon . Miles said that she accepted a copy of the play from Solanas and then " ... shut the door because I knew she was trouble . I didn 't know what sort of trouble , but I knew she was trouble . " 
