The Untold Tragedy Of Supermodel Doomed By Her Last Name - Margaux Hemingway

In 1975 she signed a one-million-dollar contract with Fabergé — the first any model had ever been offered. She was 19, six feet tall, and carried the most famous surname in American literature. Time magazine put her on the cover. Vogue followed. She dated a diner-chain heir. She partied at Studio 54 with Warhol. Dino De Laurentiis hand-picked her to be a movie star. Then almost every part of her life collapsed. Her little sister Mariel stole the movie career she was supposed to have. Fabergé dropped her. The alcoholism, the bulimia, the epilepsy she had lived with since childhood took over. By her forties she was broke, alone, and mostly forgotten. On July 1, 1996 — one day before the 35th anniversary of her grandfather's suicide — she was found decomposing in a Santa Monica studio apartment. She was the fifth Hemingway in three generations to end her own life. This is the story of the first million-dollar model and the family curse that killed her.