Who is edie sedgwick

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She was Edie's troubles began long before she was born. Her distinguished New England lineage a Sedgwick was Speaker of the House of Representatives under George Washington, another edited the Atlantic Monthly for a generation was also distinguished by hereditary madness, as far back as the Speaker's wife.

Edie's father whose own father had moved his family to southern California had two nervous breakdowns soon after leaving university, and his wife was told by her doctors that she must never have children. But the rich do not like being told what to do, and the Sedgwicks were rich-rich not only had Edie's family inherited millions; oil was discovered on their property, enough to sink 17 wells.

Mrs Sedgwick defied doctors and fate and had eight children, two of whom died before Edie - one hanged himself, the other rode his motorcycle into a bus. As a father, Francis Minturn "Duke" Sedgwick was larger than life and much more terrible. A career as a monumental sculptor and owner of a ranch that was his own little dukedom the children were tutored at home, and seldom left it did not exhaust his energies.

He seduced, or at least made advances to, his wife's friends, his children's friends and, Edie said, to her. When Edie left California for Radcliffe, the women's college of Harvard the Sedgwick alma mater , she had already spent time in mental hospitals, suffered from anorexia and had an abortion.

What men saw, however, was a delicate beauty and an appealingly vulnerable quality. The less high-minded boys flocked to Edie for other reasons - even at wealthy Harvard, there were not too many students who drove their own Mercedes, or were so uninhibited.

At one boy's Sunday family lunch, she left the table, walked out on to the lawn, stripped to her knickers and lay down to sunbathe. Bored in Boston, Edie decided to swap the role of college girl for party girl and moved to New York, into the room Park Avenue apartment of her obliging grandmother. At 21, she came into money of her own and got a flat - and clothes, clothes, clothes. Her stick figure, huge eyes and chopped-off hair suited the style of the early Sixties - Jean Seberg in the movies, Twiggy in the glossies- and Edie was, briefly, on the fashion pages.

Life magazine said she was "doing more for black tights than anybody since Hamlet". The Vogue empress Diana Vreeland praised her "anthracite-black eyes and legs to swoon over She is shown here arabesquing on her leather rhino to a record of The Kinks. In , Edie met an impresario who was more her style: Andy Warhol. Warhol and Edie were, horribly, made for each other. The Pittsburgh boy, son of Polish immigrants, wanted the Wasp heiress's company more fervently than any straight man wanted her body; the neglected daughter craved the obsessive attention of a famous man who demanded nothing from her in return.

Edie introduced Warhol to her real father, but their one meeting was not a success. The artist thought Duke Sedgwick the most handsome older man he had ever seen, but the rancher said afterwards: "Why, the guy's a screaming fag! Warhol's clothes became smarter under Edie's influence, and she dyed her hair silver to match his.

She took him to parties where everyone else was listed in the Social Register; he stage-managed her appearances, pushing Edie to the cameras and the microphones, where she was white with fear but loved every minute. Some left the place in limousines, some in ambulances, a regular said. Flash-bulbs popped and crowds on the wrong side of the rope screamed when Edie turned up in leotards and her grandmother's leopard coat.

Warhol put her in a movie called Horse, which, contrary to what one might have expected from the title, was actually about a horse. The actors, in cowboy gear, were brought together with the stallion and a placard was held up that read: "Approach the horse sexually, everybody. Edie appeared in Beauty Part II, her nervous radiance apparent from the first.

According to Paul Morrissey , a Factory regular, Edie realized that "maybe [Dylan] hadn't been truthful. They also argued over money. Edie had always picked up the tab when the Factory regulars hit the town, and she attacked Warhol over his failure to pay her money from the films she had been in. Warhol claimed that the films were unprofitable and told her to be patient. Edie's last known film with Warhol was "Lupe. In February , Edie decided to part ways with Warhol. According to Gerard Malanga , a Factory regular, "Edie disappeared and that was the end of it.

She never came back. Manhattan," she admitted that she had become addicted to her affair with Neuwirth. While they were together, she was consumed by lust, but when they were apart, she turned to pills for comfort. She tried modeling again and appeared in the March 15, edition of "Vogue.

She then turned back to acting, auditioning for Norman Mailer's staging of "The Deer Park," but Mailer turned her down. Edie "wasn't very good," Mailer remembered. A typical breakfast in this period was a saucer filled with speed. To support her habit, she stole antiques and art from her grandmother's apartment, and sold them for money. She also turned to dealing but got busted, was briefly incarcerated, and was put on probation for five years.

Then, in October , Edie's apartment on East 63rd St. She suffered burns on her arms, legs and back and was treated at Lenox Hill Hospital. In , Edie returned home to California, where she was committed to a mental hospital. After she was discharged, she moved back to New York and took a room at the Chelsea Hotel, where her drug addiction worsened. By early , her drugged-fueled behavior was so erratic, Neuwirth broke up with her.

Edie subsequently took up with her fellow Warhol superstar Paul America. He and Edie Sedgwick became lovers, united in their common lust for drugs, and they lived together for a brief time at the Chelsea Hotel and indulged heavily in speed. America later appeared with Edie in the long-gestated film "Ciao! This was supposed to be Edie's breakout role, but the film's execution by Warhol acolytes was amateurish.

Shooting on "Ciao! Manhattan," which would prove to be Edie's final film, commenced in April The shooting was anarchic, with the filmmakers and the actors addicted to speed, which was injected by a physician with whom the production company had set up a charge account.

At one point, America left the set and never returned. After America's departure, Edie wound up in Gracie Square Hospital, where she learned of her father's death, on October 24, After her discharge, Edie shacked up in the Warwick Hotel with the screenwriter L.

Kit Carson , who attracted the fragile Edie with the promise of a screenplay written for her, but ultimately he was unable to deal with the erratic behavior stemming from her drug abuse and left. Edie wound up in Bellevue Hospital, and after being discharged due to the intervention of her personal physician, she overdosed on drugs and was committed to Manhattan State Hospital.

By late , Edie was a physical and emotional wreck: by the time she returned to the family ranch for Christmas, she was barely able to walk and talk, the result of poor blood circulation in her brain. She recovered and moved into an apartment near U.

Santa Barbara in , but by August, she was institutionalized again after a drug bust. She met her future husband, Michael Post, during her stay in the psychiatric ward of Santa Barbara's Cottage Hospital, though upon her discharge, she became the moll of a motorcycle gang in order to obtain drugs. Known as "Princess" by the bikers, she was very promiscuous, sleeping with anyone who would supply her with heroin.

She was institutionalized again in Edie was furloughed from the hospital in the summer of to finish filming "Ciao! Manhattan," the last parts of which feature her clearly in the throes of drug dependency.

Under the supervision of two nurses, she played out her scenes, including a shock treatment scene electro-convulsive therapy filmed in a real clinic.

Ironically, she was soon back at the clinic for real, suffering from delirium tremens, where she received actual shock treatment therapy.

She underwent a minimum of 20 electro-convulsive treatments from January to June Edie married Michael Post on July 24, , managing to stay clean until October. However, that fall, she was prescribed a pain pill to treat a physical debility. In addition, her doctor prescribed barbiturates, possibly to help her sleep, and frequently boosted their effects with alcohol. On the night of November 15, , Edie went to fashion show at the Santa Barbara Museum and was filmed for the last time in her life.

The television documentary "An American Family" was being filmed at the museum that night, and Edie - attracted by the cameras as a moth is to flame - walked over and began talking to Lance Loud , one of the subjects of the documentary.

After the fashion show, Edie went to a party but was asked to leave after her presence caused another guest to rave at her for being a heroin addict.

Back at their apartment, Edie took her prescribed pain medication and they both went to sleep. That morning, when Post awoke at AM, he found Edie dead next to him. Sign In. Edit Edie Sedgwick. Showing all 66 items. Came from a wealthy family in Massachussetts, but was raised on her parents' ranch outside Santa Barbara, California, and privately schooled. First cousin once removed of actress Kyra Sedgwick and actor Robert Sedgwick.

On the last night of her life, Edie attended a fashion show in her home city of Santa Barbara and even managed to get herself on camera one last time when the documentary crew for An American Family showed up to film Lance Loud. Later that night, at a party, a palm reader grabbed her hand and was taken aback by her very short life line - to which Edie sweetly replied, "It's okay - I know.

She burned down at least one more room at that historic residence before management placed her in Room above the lobby - and just down the hall from the same room Sid Vicious would one day allegedly kill his girlfriend, Nancy Spungen.

Was introduced to Andy Warhol by television producer Lester Persky in January of and appeared in Vinyl , her first official Warhol film, in March of Andy Warhol appears in the latter song, as "Napoleon in rags. Spent her entire trust fund from the Sedgwick family fortune in just a few months, promoting Andy Warhol and entertaining his clients and hangers-on. This never seemed to register with Warhol, who continued to deride her as a "poor little rich girl" also the title of one of his movies with her , and wondered out loud when she died if her husband of a few months would "get her money.

She spent it all on you. Her great-great-great grandfather was Judge Theodore Sedgwick. Her husband, Michael Post, woke up on the morning of November 16, to find Edie lying dead next to him in bed. Misha Sedgwick no relation , portrayed her in a off-Broadway play. Is portrayed by Sienna Miller in Factory Girl One of the songs paid tribute to Edie Sedgwick. The song is called "Edie Ciao Baby ". Edie filmed the first part of Ciao Manhattan from April to August of Filming completely fell apart when she spontaneously took off to California to eventually hang out at the infamous "Castle" with Nico and sometimes guest Jim Morrison - among others.

After a brief trip to Boston to film Lulu - a short film by Richard Leacock - she returned to Manhattan essentially homeless and, by early , was repeatedly institutionalized in mental hospitals. Grew up on an isolated ranch in Santa Barbara, California, where she and her siblings had their own private school. They made daily visits to the doctor's office, where they were given Vitamin B injections. At her funeral, her casket was covered with magnolias. Her wedding bouquet had also been made up of magnolias.

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