A new Vanity Fair article explores the combustible and brief relationship between Andy Warhol and Edie Sedgwick, the actress who starred in several of Warhol’s movies in 1965. Meeting Sedgwick inspired Warhol to retire from painting and focus his efforts on filmmaking, with Sedgwick as his Marilyn Monroe superstar. For a year the pair dressed alike and wore their hair alike. The romance, though far from the strict definition of one, was alternately loving and hateful, and usually drug-fueled. Sedgwick, who suffered tragedy after tragedy up until she died of a barbiturate overdose in 1971, left Warhol’s Factory for Bob Dylan’s circle at the end of 1965. Lili Anolik’s article takes us from the Tennessee Williams birthday party where the two met to their separate tragic demises.
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