After a short time in jail on Rikers Island he is released on a quarter-million-dollar bail put up by his old friend Frank Stella; Claes Oldenburg gives him shelter in his studio for the time being.
January 1985
Marries Ana Mendieta
In the sixth year of their relationship Andre and Mendieta marry; it is his third marriage — the first two ended in divorce.
8 September 1985
Death of Ana Mendieta and the charge against Andre
After an argument with her husband, Ana Mendieta falls from the window of their 34th-floor apartment in Greenwich Village and dies. The same night Andre is charged with second-degree murder.
1985–1988
Three years of a trial without a jury
He faces three difficult years of proceedings; during the trial he waives a jury and chooses to be tried by a judge alone.
