Margaux Hemingway

Margot Louise Hemingway was born February 16, 1954, in Portland, Oregon, the second of three daughters born to Byra Louise "Puck" (née Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway (eldest child of writer Ernest Hemingway). She attended the Catlin Gabel School in Portland for her junior year. Margaux struggled with several disorders beginning in her teenage years, including alcoholism, depression, bulimia, and epilepsy. In 2013, her younger sister Mariel said in the documentary Running from Crazy that both Margaux and their older sister Muffet had been sexually abused by their father. == Career ==

1972–1975: Modeling Hemingway was tall and had success as a model, including her million-dollar contract with Fabergé as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume in the 1970s. This was the first million-dollar contract ever awarded to a fashion model. She also appeared on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Elle, ''Harper's Bazaar, and Vogue, as well as on the June 16, 1975, cover of TIME, which dubbed her one of the "new beauties". The September 1, 1975, cover issue of Vogue'' called Hemingway "New York's New Supermodel". Hemingway's quick rise in the modeling industry, coupled with the public's curiosity with her Hemingway family connection, garnered her the "it girl" label amongst the press and in social circles. During the height of her modeling career in the mid- to late 1970s, Hemingway was a regular attendee of New York City's exclusive discothèque Studio 54, often in the company of such celebrities as Halston, Bianca Jagger, Liza Minnelli, Grace Jones, and Andy Warhol. At such social mixers, she began to use alcohol and drugs. She followed this with a supporting role in the Italian horror film Killer Fish (1979), opposite Lee Majors and Karen Black. Her following project was the comedy They Call Me Bruce? in 1982. In 1984, Hemingway had a supporting part in Over the Brooklyn Bridge, opposite Elliott Gould and Shelley Winters. After a skiing accident in 1984, Hemingway gained , ending up at nearly , and became increasingly depressed. In 1987, she checked into the Betty Ford Center. Attempting to make a comeback, she appeared on the cover of Playboy in May 1990, asking the magazine to hire spiritist Zachary Selig as the creative director for her story. It was shot in Belize, by photographer Arny Freytag. Hemingway continued to act in a string of direct-to-video films and, in 1998, was the subject of the documentary Hemingway: Winner Take Nothing, in which she explored the life of her grandfather to identify parallels between his self-destructive tendencies and her own struggles. Shortly before her death, she was set to host the outdoor adventure series Wild Guide on the Discovery Channel. ==Personal life==

in 1991 In June 1975, Hemingway married entrepreneur Errol Wetson (Wetanson); they divorced in 1978. On New Year's Eve 1979, Hemingway married French filmmaker Bernard Faucher. They divorced in 1985. Hemingway had strained relationships with members of her family. She had a tense relationship with her mother, though they reconciled prior to Byra's death from cancer in 1988. She also competed with her younger sister Mariel, who received greater accolades for her acting. In the 1990s, Hemingway alleged that her father, Jack, had molested her as a child. Her father and stepmother, Angela, resented the allegations and stopped speaking to her. Angela told People magazine, "Jack and I did not talk to her for two years. She constantly lies. The whole family won't have anything to do with her. She's nothing but an angry woman." ==Death==

On July 1, 1996, Hemingway was found dead in her studio apartment in Santa Monica by her friend, Judy Stabile. Stabile and several friends of Hemingway had grown concerned after she failed to answer phone calls during the weekend. and the precise date of death could not be determined. The autopsy report and California death records therefore list July 1 as her date of death. According to the Los Angeles County coroner's toxicology report, she had taken an overdose of phenobarbital. Hemingway was interred at the Hemingway family plot at Ketchum Cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho. Mariel Hemingway's husband told People in 1996 that, "This [year] was the best I'd seen [Margaux] in years. She had gotten herself back together", Her family had difficulty accepting the fact of her suicide, == Filmography ==