2. Edie Sedgwick
Princess of Andy Warhol’s multimedia factory (where the counterculture of the 1960s was produced), the radiant Edie Sedgwick died in 1971 from an overdose of barbiturates. The Independent says about her famous friendship with Warhol: “The neglected daughter craved the obsessive attention of a famous man who demanded nothing from her in return.” Her mental state, like that of her many ancestors, was fragile. She was addicted to drugs, her favorite being a speedball: a shot of amphetamines in one arm and a shot of heroin in the other. She broke herself buying drugs, finally prostituting herself to a biker gang to afford her next fix. She was finally found dead of an overdose by her husband, Michael Post. She was 28.
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