Meet Edie, My Idol

This, my friends is my idol. Her name is Edie Sedgwick and she was Andy Warhol's "it" girl of 1960's.

During the days working the Factory Studios, she became one of Andy's so called 'toys'. Being as stunning as she is, Andy saw something different about her and used her in videos and many photo shoots for his qwerky shots. The strange thing about Warhol's videos is that they were very confronting and at sometimes uncomfortably sexual. Edie was taken to many exquisite art galleries where the famous pop art designs that Andy had brought to life where exhibited. Edie's popularity grew enormously through the press, obsessing over her unique fashion including black leotards, mini dresses and abnormally large chandler earrings. However, her roles in some of Warhol's films which were rarely shown outside the Factory. Edie cut her hair short, and spray painted it silver, just like some of the wigs that Warhol wore. There are many-a photos of them together during outings.

 Some of the films that Andy filmed where quite edgy and sometimes a little "too far" and classified extremely weird. In 1965, Warhol crowned Edie a "Superstar". However, a few years later, their friendship started to collapse when Edie requested Warhol to stop showing her films.

 Following her departure from Warhol's world she started to live in Chelsea Hotel and became close friends with the musician, Bob Dylan. However, that friendship was destroyed after Dylan kept a secret marriage away from Edie, who found out through an argument with Warhol, which left her heartbroken. A movie was then produced by her brother called Factory Girl which was filmed and claimed that she had an abortion "that was Bob Dylans child" But the baby was then aborted after a motorbike crash, and the hospital declared her baby as possibly injured due to her being extremely underweight and her drug use. 

Edie began having a fling with another guy called Bob N, which the relationship then broke after Bob having enough of her drug use and erratic behavior. August 1969, she was hospitalized in the psychiatric ward of Cottage Hospital after being arrested for drug offenses by the local police. While in the hospital, Sedgwick met another patient, Michael Brett Post, whom she would later marry. Sedgwick was in the hospital again in the summer of 1970, but was let out under the supervision of a psychiatrist, two nurses, and the live-in care of filmmaker John Palmer and his wife Janet. After her marriage with Post it was claimed that she had given up her drug addiction and alcohol abuse. Her sobriety lasted until October, when pain medication was given to her to treat a physical illness. Her doctor prescribed her with high dosage pills but she abused that and she would demand more pills or say she had lost them in order to get more. Sedgwick often combined the medications with alcohol.

Edie attended a lot of fashion shows however, one was to change her life. After the fashion show, she attended a party and was supposedly attacked by a drunken guest who called her a heroin addict. Sedgwick phoned Post (her husband), who arrived at the party and, seeing that she was disturbed by the accusations, took her back to their apartment around one in the morning. On the way home, Sedgwick expressed thoughts of uncertainty about their marriage. Before they both fell asleep, Post gave Sedgwick the medication that had been prescribed for her. Post said that she'd fallen asleep a little "too" quickly and her breathing sounded as if she had a huge hole in her lungs, thinking that it was only her smoking. 

When Post awoke the following morning, Edie Sedgwick was dead. It was claimed to either be undetermined/accident or suicide. We still don't know.