Edith Minturn Sedgwick Post, Andy Warhol’s iconic Factory muse, burst onto the Manhattan art/pop culture scene in the mid 1960’s and soon became what Vanity Fair called “the avatar of Warhol’s desires.” Gorgeous, reed-thin and exceedingly rich from a family that Andy declared went “all the way back to the Pilgrims” she soon began modeling and exploded onto the scene as “Girl of The Year.” Vogue’s Diana Vreeland dubbed her a “Youthquaker,” and in 1965 when Warhol turned from pop art soup can works to film, she became his “Marilyn,” the “It girl” of the era, a status that propelled her onto the cover of Life MagazineĪfter appearing in multiple Warhol avant-garde films like “The Poor Little Rich Girl,” her rumored affair with Bob Dylan, reportedly caused the possessive Andy to turn on her, sending her down a destructive rabbit hole of heroin addiction and back the refuge of her family in Santa Barbara where she met her husband, Michael Post, in rehab.
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