She was innate within Santa Barbara, California, a daughter of Francis Minturn Sedgwick, an overbearing sculptor & gentleman rancher, & his shy, retiring married woman, Alice Delano de Forest, granddaughter of the founder of the Groton School. She was known as for her father's sister, world health organization died at birth. Her agnate grandpa was Henry Dwight Sedgwick III, a historiographer & creator. Sedgwick's personal, yearn established within Massachusetts history and by owning members oftentimes painted per creative person John Singer Sargent, was troubled, eccentric, & seriously spoilt by alcoholism & mental symptoms. Late within life, Sedgwick claimed to own had sexual abuse as a child. As a missy she suffered sustaining clinical depression and anorexia nervosa and was institutionalized briefly.

Within 1964, Sedgwick moved to New York to pursue a career inside modelling. She appeared in Time, LIFE and Vogue between 1963 and 1965. A editor of Vogue, Diana Vreeland, called her an example of the era's youth culture. Inside 1965 Sedgwick met Andy Warhol and quickly became his favourite "Warhol superstar", featuring in several of his underground films including Poor Little Rich Girl, Vinyl, Beauty #2, and Chelsea Girls. It was in the time period of this period that Sedgwick began applying doses, particularly amphetamines.

She became Warhol's Girl of the Season in the period of 1965 when she accompanied him everywhere in the Up to date York social scene. When you took this cycle a pair would typically dress like, & Sedgwick often known as herself Mrs. Warhol. A friendly relationship did non endure beyond 1966 when Warhol and Sedgwick processed an bitter public split.

As a result her departure from either Warhol’s circles, Sedgwick began residing at Hotel Chelsea where she became involved sustaining Bob Dylan. Dylan’s friends convinced Sedgwick to sign higher by owning Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager. Spell taking part using Dylan, Sedgwick was introduced to LSD. She is rumoured to become one of a independent inspirations behind Dylan's germinal 1966 piece of music Blonde on Blonde & songs when celebrated and diverse as a caring ballad Good Such as the Woman & a raucous stamper Leopardskin Pillbox Hat. She too inspired Lay Lady Lay.

Within 1966, Sedgwick began the troubled relationship by using Dylan's longtime crony Bob Neuwirth. When you took this relationship she became depending on heroin and barbituates. A relationship ended around 1967. Around April 1967 Sedgwick began shooting on Ciao! Manhattan an underground movie in which she was to star. Fallowing a bit of footage was shot within New York, work on the film was abandoned due to budget & legal problems.

Sedgwick’s apace degenerating health saw her link to to her personal withwithin California & spend instance in many different psychiatrical institutions. Within August 1969, she was admitted to the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, where she met Michael Post, whom she married on July 24, 1971. Electroconvulsive therapy treatments were administered extensively and many efforts at drug rehabilitation were made.

Shooting resumed in Aloha! Manhattan around 1970 and was completed in 1971.

Sedgwick died around November 1971 from either barbiturate poisoning; her husband of quadruplet months woke to buy her dead within bed beside him. Her demise was ruled the suicide/ drug overdose. the fille by owning an undoubted talent for inspiring the talents withinside others, Sedgwick has been immortalized in a total of rock songs & continues to become an icon far beyond what her actual accomplishment will indicate.

The Cult wrote a song all about her life known as Edie (Ciao Infant) which get on their Sonic Temple album released inside 1989.

Edie Brickell & The New Bohemians wrote a song about her called Little Miss S which was on their Shooting Rubberbands at the Stars album released in 1988.

The Velvet Underground song Femme Fatale (on the album The Velvet Underground and Nico) is reported to have been written astir Edie at Andy Warhol's asking.

A alternative rock band Dramarama used a photo of Edie in their album Cinéma Vérité.

Even as Dylan's Just Like a Woman and Leopard-Skin Pillbox Hat were purportedly write of Sedgwick, a bit of imagine that a song Like a Rolling Stone was also inspired by her, by having Napoleon around Rags existence Andy Warhol.

Sedgwick is to exist as portrayed within Factory Girl, a feature film about her life, which is supposed to begwithin cinematography in 2005; it was originally to star Sienna Miller, but when of Could 2005 she has been dropped from either a lead role & ex-''Dawson's Creek'' star Katie Holmes was cast in her place. Holmes is no hanker tied to the design (even dropping out whenever she began her relationship using Tom Cruise, who was said to use at times disapproved of a drug content), & the lead role has been re-casted to Miller. A cast presently includes Gwen Stefani (as Richie Berlin), her husband Gavin Rossdale (as Gerard Melanga), Guy Pearce (as Warhol), & Peter Bogdanovich.

Sedgwick's niece, Misha Sedgwick, is an actress and producer world health organization recently finished shooting the role around Carlito's Way: The Beginning. Misha might next exist as seen inside Up to date York City starring in the play Hello Superstar! and will before long pop up in the independent film Wanted.

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Filmography

Space (1965) Screen Test #2 (1965) Vinyl (1965) Restaurant (1965) Poor Little Rich Girl (1965) Beauty #2 (1965) Outer and Inner Space (1965) **** aka the 4 Star Movie (1965) The Chelsea Girls (1967) Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1970) Ciao! Manhattan (1972)