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Chelsea Girl.

Edie Sedgwick embodied several of the dominant cultural obsessions of the 1960s: glamour, celebrity, and self-destructiveness. She made a name for herself as one of the personalities that gathered around pop artist Andy Warhol and his arts Factory. As one of Warhol's "superstars" she was featured in several of his unusual films of the time, including the epic-length Chelsea Girls. At the same time she was a successful model, appearing in Vogue and Life magazines. A child of privilege, Sedgwick became absorbed in the often frantic social scene of the decade. She died in obscurity of a drug overdose in 1971.

A Child of Privilege.

Edie Sedgwick came from a background of wealth on both sides of her family. She was born in 1943, the sixth of eight children. Her father was a gentleman rancher who added to his inherited fortune considerably when oil was discovered on his...