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Edie Sedgwick: Bob Dylan
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Kyra's cousin, Edie Sedgwick, appeared in many of Andy Warhol's films. She was said to be the inspiration for Bob Dylan's "Just Like A Woman", and died of a drug overdose at the age of 28. She has two brothers, Nicco Sedgwick and Rob Sedgwick (... an actor).
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The life of socialite and legendary muse, Edie Sedgwick, comes to the big screen when Factory Girl is released next month (assuming the film finishes reshooting some scenes). Sedgwick inspired Andy Warhol and a slew of other artists, including Bob Dylan.
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[A]ccording to Edie Sedgwick's personal medical records and oral life-history tape recorded less than a year before her death for her final film, Ciao! Manhattan, there is credible evidence that the only abortion she underwent in her lifetime was at age 20 in 1963. Throughout most of 1966, Sedgwick was involved in an intensely private yet tumultuous relationship not with Bob Dylan, but with Dylan's closest friend, Bob Neuwirth. During this period, she became increasingly dependent on barbiturates. Although she experimented with illegal substances including opiates, there is no evidence that Sedgwick ever became a heroin addict. In early 1967, Neuwirth, unable to cope with Sedgwick's drug abuse and erratic behavior, broke off their relationship.
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When Edie meets folk singer Billy Quinn (a character based on Bob Dylan and played by Hayden Christensen), she begins seeing the Factory scene differently. Billy tells her that Andy and his followers are vampires who steal ideas and souls. Andy, jealous of Edie and Billy’s romantic involvement, gives Edie the silent treatment. The other Factory members follow his lead, and collectively ban Edie from the Factory’s hallowed inner circle. Unfortunately Edie has no coping skills or support system to deal with the boot from Andy and her life spirals out of control. Meanwhile, Andy obsessively watches her Factory movies AND goes to confession and talks about her to a priest!
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Following her departure from Warhol's circle, Sedgwick began living at the Chelsea Hotel, where she became close to Bob Dylan. She is rumoured to have been one of the inspirations behind Dylan's seminal 1966 opus Blonde on Blonde, and the raucous stomper "Leopard-Skin Pill-Box Hat". It was ... claimed that the phrase "your debutante" on the track "Stuck Inside of Mobile with the Memphis Blues Again" referred to her. Dylan's friends eventually convinced Sedgwick to sign up with Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager. Sedgwick and Dylan's relationship ended when Sedgwick found out that Dylan had married Sara Lownds in a secret ceremony – something that she apparently found out from Warhol during an argument at the Gingerman Restaurant in February 1966.
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Before she overdosed at age 28, Edith Minturn Sedgwick changed the way Americans conceived celebrity. She wasn't famous for anything, really, other than being rich, friendly with Andy Warhol, sleeping with Lou Reed and Mick Jagger, and maybe inspiring Dylan's Blonde on Blonde. But without the anti-fame mold she created, there'd arguably be no famous Paris Hilton. No famous Nicole Ritchie. No Kim Kardashian, Lauren Conrad or any of the host of Inside Edition starlets that have helped shape America's cultural awareness.
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