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Jean Seberg: Death
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Twenty years after her death, Jean Seberg remains an icon in France and a cult figure the world over. Though her grave has become a place of pilgrimage for many, and her turbulant life a subject of intense scrutiny, it is her enduring screen image that continues to ensure her place in the hearts and minds of those who fall under her spell.
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By the time of her death, Seberg was no longer the corn-belt innocent Preminger had encountered. She was a victim of a rightwing, moralistic government, her public's need for mythology, and her own emotional instability. Maybe this was the payoff for going to France as a "free spirit" and giving up on the American Dream.
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Her depression and drug abuse would continue with Jean trying to kill herself around the anniversary of her daughter's death for the remaining nine years of her life. She eventually succeeded in 1979, aged only 40.
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