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Edie Sedgwick was the original "it girl" and "superstar" of Andy Warhol in 1965.
She was 5'5 skinny and was the girl who made chandelier earrings and leotards the
height of fashion in the 60's. She was known for being famous an heiress and of course
the story is being told today in the movie "Factory Girl" with Sienna MIller. She was
institutionalized for anorexia in 1962 when she weighed 90lbs...Andy Warhol was often
blamed for Edie Sedgwick's descent into drug addiction and mental illness. However,
before meeting Warhol, Edie had been in mental hospitals twice and came from a family
with a history of mental illness. She was only close to Warhol for about a year, from
approximately March 1965 to February 1966.
Another fallacy was that Warhol ditched Edie after using her up whereas the truth was
that it was Edie's decision to leave the Factory, lured by promises of stardom by Bob
Dylan and his manager, leaving Andy feeling slightly betrayed.
ANOREXIA
Edie was first institutionalized in the autumn of 1962 after suffering from anorexia and,
like her brother, attended the Silver Hill mental hospital. Her anorexia continued until
she weighed only ninety pounds at which time she was transferred to Bloomingdale, the
Westchester Division of New York Hospital. (EDIE115) Whereas Silver Hill was fairly
liberal, Bloomingdale was very strict. Near the end of her stay there, she became
pregnant while on a hospital pass and had to have an abortion. (EDIE115/7).
After leaving Andy's crowd, Edie, still in a relationship with Bob Neuwirth, tried modeling,
appearing in Vogue on March 15, 1966. During her Factory days, she had appeared in
Vogue in August 1965 as a "youthquaker" and also in a fashion layout for Life magazine
in the September 1965 issue.
She never became part of "the family at Vogue" because, according to senior editor
Gloria Schiff: "she was identified in the gossip columns with the drug scene, and back
then there was a certain apprehension about being involved in that scene... people
were really terrified by it... drugs had done so much damage to young, creative, brilliant
people that we were just anti that scene as a policy". (EDIE302).
Edie also auditioned for Norman Mailer's play The Deer Park, but Mailer thought she
"wasn't very good... She used so much of herself with every line that we knew she'd be
immolated after three performances" (EDIE314).
CIAO! MANHATTAN
The shooting for Edie's final film, Ciao! Manhattan, started on Easter Sunday, 1967.
According to Robert Margouleff, the film's producer, "Everybody on the set needed a
poke [of speed] - first once a day, then twice. We actually set up a charge account at Dr.
Roberts office.... Shooting got so unpredictable. There was one scene in which Paul
America was supposed to drop off Jane Holzer at the heliport at the Pan Am building. We
filmed him driving up up and letting her out and then driving off. He was supposed to
drive around the block and be available for more footage to the scene. But he just kept
on going. We didn't hear from Paul again for about eight months until finally David
tracked him down in Allegan, Michigan where he was in jail. We had to get permission
from the Governor to film him in jail and try to integrate that into the footage." (EDIE
321/3)
On October 24, 1967. Edie's father died. Toward the end of his life, one of his brother's
heard him say: "You know, my children all believe that their difficulties stem from me.
And I agree. I think they do." (EDIE356)
Edie was in Gracie Square Hospital at the time of her father's death. When she came out,
she moved in with L.M. Kit Carson who had written a film he wanted Edie to be in. They
had an affair and moved into the Warwick hotel posing as man and wife. Unable to cope
with her drug addiction and erratic behaviour, Carson moved out. Several days later
Edie was committed to Bellevue Hospital. After contacting her private physician she was
let out of Bellevue, but was later committed to the Manhattan State Hospital after a drug
overdose. (EDIE363)
Her brother, Jonathan, describes her state when Edie's mother finally took her out of
the the hospital and back to the ranch in Santa Barbara in the late fall of 1968: "She
couldn't walk. She'd just fall over... like she had no motor control left at all. The doctor
did a dye test of some sort and it showed the blood wasn't reaching certain parts of the
brain... She couldn't talk. I'd say, "Edie, goddamn it, get your head together... She'd say,
'I... I... I... know... know... know... I... I... can but it's ha... ha... hard...' " (EDIE370)
Eventually she was well enough to live in town and got an apartment in Isla Vista near
U.C. Santa Barbara. She was hospitalized again in August of 1969 in the psychiatric ward
of Cottage Hospital after being busted for drugs by the local police. While in hospital
she met another patient, Michael Post, who she would later marry. (EDIE371/76)
When Edie got out of the hospital, she hung around with a group of bikers called the
Vikings. One of the bikers, Preacher Ewing, remembered her as "a little larger than life
in her capacity to hit the depths... I used to call her Princess, because that's what she
thought she was...She'd say her parents were so fantastically upper-class... she was
condescending. It was really ludicrous, because she'd ball half the dudes in town for a
snort of junk." (EDIE387)
Edie was in the hospital again in the summer of 1970 but was let out under the
supervision of two nurses to finish Ciao! Manhattan. (EDIE388)
For the shock treatment segment in the film, a real clinic was used and Edie knew
exactly how the gag should be placed and how the airway went in. The segments of her
in her "apartment" were actually filmed at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in Los
Angeles. (EDIE390)
Soon afterwards, suffering from the DT's, Edie was admitted to the same clinic they used
to film the shock treatment in Ciao Manhattan, where she had real shock treatments.
Michael Post:
"She was in the clinic from January 17 to June 4... She had shock treatments - I don't
know how many - maybe twenty or more. Dr Mercer told me that she'd had some shock
treatments in the East. He authorized the new ones because he thought Edie could be
close to suicidal." (EDIE398)
According to Warhol biographer, David Bourdon, "Between January and June of 1971,
she received twenty or more shock treatments." (DB316)
CIAO! EDIE
Edie married Michael Post on July 24, 1971. She stopped drinking and taking pills until
October when pain medication was given to her to treat a physical illness. She remained
under the care of Dr. Mercer who prescribed her barbiturates but she would often
demand more pills or say she had lost them in order to get more, often combining them
with alcohol.
On the night of November 15, 1971, Edie went to fashion show at Santa Barbara Museum,
a segment of which was filmed for the television show An American Family, Lance Loud
had already met Edie before on a beach in Isla Vista and she spoke to him in the lobby
"drawn" by the cameras.
After the fashion show Edie attended a party and was verbally attacked by one of the
guests who called her a heroin addict. The guest was so loud that she was asked to
leave. Edie rang Michael who arrived at the party and could see that Edie had been
drinking.
Eventually, they left the party, went back to their apartment where Michael gave Edie the
medication that had been prescribed for her and they both fell asleep. When Michael
woke up the following morning at 7:30, Edie was dead. The coroner registered her death
as Accident/Suicide due to a Barbiturate overdose.
Saucie (Edie's sister):
"Edie was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard, up over the San Marcos Pass. It
used to be a dingy village so small that if you went through it at fifty miles per hour you'd
miss it. It's in the Valley, but it's nothing. A few live-oak trees. No one would ever go
there except to see the veterinarian." (EDIE425)
for the source of this information and more.. .click here.
She was 5'5 skinny and was the girl who made chandelier earrings and leotards the
height of fashion in the 60's. She was known for being famous an heiress and of course
the story is being told today in the movie "Factory Girl" with Sienna MIller. She was
institutionalized for anorexia in 1962 when she weighed 90lbs...Andy Warhol was often
blamed for Edie Sedgwick's descent into drug addiction and mental illness. However,
before meeting Warhol, Edie had been in mental hospitals twice and came from a family
with a history of mental illness. She was only close to Warhol for about a year, from
approximately March 1965 to February 1966.
Another fallacy was that Warhol ditched Edie after using her up whereas the truth was
that it was Edie's decision to leave the Factory, lured by promises of stardom by Bob
Dylan and his manager, leaving Andy feeling slightly betrayed.
ANOREXIA
Edie was first institutionalized in the autumn of 1962 after suffering from anorexia and,
like her brother, attended the Silver Hill mental hospital. Her anorexia continued until
she weighed only ninety pounds at which time she was transferred to Bloomingdale, the
Westchester Division of New York Hospital. (EDIE115) Whereas Silver Hill was fairly
liberal, Bloomingdale was very strict. Near the end of her stay there, she became
pregnant while on a hospital pass and had to have an abortion. (EDIE115/7).
After leaving Andy's crowd, Edie, still in a relationship with Bob Neuwirth, tried modeling,
appearing in Vogue on March 15, 1966. During her Factory days, she had appeared in
Vogue in August 1965 as a "youthquaker" and also in a fashion layout for Life magazine
in the September 1965 issue.
She never became part of "the family at Vogue" because, according to senior editor
Gloria Schiff: "she was identified in the gossip columns with the drug scene, and back
then there was a certain apprehension about being involved in that scene... people
were really terrified by it... drugs had done so much damage to young, creative, brilliant
people that we were just anti that scene as a policy". (EDIE302).
Edie also auditioned for Norman Mailer's play The Deer Park, but Mailer thought she
"wasn't very good... She used so much of herself with every line that we knew she'd be
immolated after three performances" (EDIE314).
CIAO! MANHATTAN
The shooting for Edie's final film, Ciao! Manhattan, started on Easter Sunday, 1967.
According to Robert Margouleff, the film's producer, "Everybody on the set needed a
poke [of speed] - first once a day, then twice. We actually set up a charge account at Dr.
Roberts office.... Shooting got so unpredictable. There was one scene in which Paul
America was supposed to drop off Jane Holzer at the heliport at the Pan Am building. We
filmed him driving up up and letting her out and then driving off. He was supposed to
drive around the block and be available for more footage to the scene. But he just kept
on going. We didn't hear from Paul again for about eight months until finally David
tracked him down in Allegan, Michigan where he was in jail. We had to get permission
from the Governor to film him in jail and try to integrate that into the footage." (EDIE
321/3)
On October 24, 1967. Edie's father died. Toward the end of his life, one of his brother's
heard him say: "You know, my children all believe that their difficulties stem from me.
And I agree. I think they do." (EDIE356)
Edie was in Gracie Square Hospital at the time of her father's death. When she came out,
she moved in with L.M. Kit Carson who had written a film he wanted Edie to be in. They
had an affair and moved into the Warwick hotel posing as man and wife. Unable to cope
with her drug addiction and erratic behaviour, Carson moved out. Several days later
Edie was committed to Bellevue Hospital. After contacting her private physician she was
let out of Bellevue, but was later committed to the Manhattan State Hospital after a drug
overdose. (EDIE363)
Her brother, Jonathan, describes her state when Edie's mother finally took her out of
the the hospital and back to the ranch in Santa Barbara in the late fall of 1968: "She
couldn't walk. She'd just fall over... like she had no motor control left at all. The doctor
did a dye test of some sort and it showed the blood wasn't reaching certain parts of the
brain... She couldn't talk. I'd say, "Edie, goddamn it, get your head together... She'd say,
'I... I... I... know... know... know... I... I... can but it's ha... ha... hard...' " (EDIE370)
Eventually she was well enough to live in town and got an apartment in Isla Vista near
U.C. Santa Barbara. She was hospitalized again in August of 1969 in the psychiatric ward
of Cottage Hospital after being busted for drugs by the local police. While in hospital
she met another patient, Michael Post, who she would later marry. (EDIE371/76)
When Edie got out of the hospital, she hung around with a group of bikers called the
Vikings. One of the bikers, Preacher Ewing, remembered her as "a little larger than life
in her capacity to hit the depths... I used to call her Princess, because that's what she
thought she was...She'd say her parents were so fantastically upper-class... she was
condescending. It was really ludicrous, because she'd ball half the dudes in town for a
snort of junk." (EDIE387)
Edie was in the hospital again in the summer of 1970 but was let out under the
supervision of two nurses to finish Ciao! Manhattan. (EDIE388)
For the shock treatment segment in the film, a real clinic was used and Edie knew
exactly how the gag should be placed and how the airway went in. The segments of her
in her "apartment" were actually filmed at the bottom of an empty swimming pool in Los
Angeles. (EDIE390)
Soon afterwards, suffering from the DT's, Edie was admitted to the same clinic they used
to film the shock treatment in Ciao Manhattan, where she had real shock treatments.
Michael Post:
"She was in the clinic from January 17 to June 4... She had shock treatments - I don't
know how many - maybe twenty or more. Dr Mercer told me that she'd had some shock
treatments in the East. He authorized the new ones because he thought Edie could be
close to suicidal." (EDIE398)
According to Warhol biographer, David Bourdon, "Between January and June of 1971,
she received twenty or more shock treatments." (DB316)
CIAO! EDIE
Edie married Michael Post on July 24, 1971. She stopped drinking and taking pills until
October when pain medication was given to her to treat a physical illness. She remained
under the care of Dr. Mercer who prescribed her barbiturates but she would often
demand more pills or say she had lost them in order to get more, often combining them
with alcohol.
On the night of November 15, 1971, Edie went to fashion show at Santa Barbara Museum,
a segment of which was filmed for the television show An American Family, Lance Loud
had already met Edie before on a beach in Isla Vista and she spoke to him in the lobby
"drawn" by the cameras.
After the fashion show Edie attended a party and was verbally attacked by one of the
guests who called her a heroin addict. The guest was so loud that she was asked to
leave. Edie rang Michael who arrived at the party and could see that Edie had been
drinking.
Eventually, they left the party, went back to their apartment where Michael gave Edie the
medication that had been prescribed for her and they both fell asleep. When Michael
woke up the following morning at 7:30, Edie was dead. The coroner registered her death
as Accident/Suicide due to a Barbiturate overdose.
Saucie (Edie's sister):
"Edie was buried in the Oak Hill Cemetery in Ballard, up over the San Marcos Pass. It
used to be a dingy village so small that if you went through it at fifty miles per hour you'd
miss it. It's in the Valley, but it's nothing. A few live-oak trees. No one would ever go
there except to see the veterinarian." (EDIE425)
for the source of this information and more.. .click here.
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