Margaux Hemingway gained success as a supermodel in the mid-1970s, appearing on the covers of magazines including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and Time.
20 Facts About Margaux Hemingway
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Margaux Hemingway signed a million-dollar contract with Faberge Inc as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume.
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Margot Louise Hemingway was born February 16,1954, in Portland, Oregon, the second of three daughters born to Byra Louise and Jack Hemingway.
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Margaux Hemingway had two sisters, actress Mariel Hemingway, and Joan.
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Margaux Hemingway attended the Catlin Gabel School in Portland for her junior year.
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Margaux Hemingway struggled with a variety of disorders beginning in her teenage years, including alcoholism, depression, bulimia, and epilepsy.
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Margaux Hemingway was 6 feet tall and had success as a model, including her million-dollar contract with Faberge as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume in the 1970s.
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Margaux Hemingway 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".
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Selig and Margaux Hemingway spent time with the Margaux Hemingway family at their property in Ketchum adjacent to Sun Valley, where they studied Solar Kundalini, yoga, and meditation together.
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Margaux Hemingway continued using these relaxation skills for the rest of her life.
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Margaux Hemingway followed this with a supporting role in the Italian horror film Killer Fish, opposite Lee Majors and Karen Black.
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In 1984, Margaux Hemingway had a supporting part in Over the Brooklyn Bridge, opposite Elliott Gould and Shelley Winters.
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Margaux Hemingway continued to support herself by appearing in a small number of direct-to-video films into the 1990s, autographing her nude photos from Playboy, and endorsing a psychic telephone hotline owned by her cousin, Adiel Margaux Hemingway.
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Revson, a scion of the Revson family that created Revlon cosmetics, declined Selig's offer for Margaux Hemingway to endorse Revlon, whereas later Faberge signed her on with the largest salary of its day.
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On New Year's Eve 1979, Margaux Hemingway married French filmmaker Bernard Faucher in and they lived in Paris for a year.
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Margaux Hemingway had a tense relationship with her mother, though they reconciled prior to Byra's death from cancer in 1988.
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Margaux Hemingway competed with her younger sister Mariel, who received greater accolades for her acting.
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On July 1,1996, Margaux Hemingway was found dead in her studio apartment in Santa Monica.
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Margaux Hemingway had taken an overdose of phenobarbital, according to the Los Angeles County coroner's toxicology report one month later, although her family had difficulty accepting the fact of her suicide.
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Margaux Hemingway was interred at the Margaux Hemingway family plot at Ketchum Cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho.