![]() ![]() “Oh, I thought that she was impossible,” Wohl told The Post.Īlice Sedgwick Wohl didn’t think much of her little sister Edie Sedgwick - the incandescent Warhol superstar and pop art icon who set 1960s New York ablaze with her gamine beauty, silver-haired mane and reckless extravagance. Carter Ratcliff (1983): According to a birth certificate reproduced by Jean Stein and George Plimpton in Edie: An American Biography, the artist was born on. While Edie gallivanted around Manhattan in her signature black tights and chandelier earrings, burning through her $80,000 inheritance in six months, Wohl - 12 years her senior - was dealing with a brand new baby and grieving two brothers, who had recently died within ten months of each other.īy comparison, Edie seemed like a “silly, spoiled child,” the now-91-year-old Wohl recalled. ![]() (She said as much in Jean Stein’s and George Plimpton’s monumental oral history, “ Edie: An American Biography,” published in 1982.) “I’d been working in East Harlem, I was extremely upset and worried about the Civil Rights Movement, and then there was the Vietnam War coming up. ![]() … I just couldn’t see the point,” she added. George Ames Plimpton (Ma September 25, 2003) was an American writer. Edie was outrageous, vulnerable and strikingly beautiful.Her childhood was dominated by a brutal but glamorous father. “I didn’t understand who she was or what she represented.” Edie Sedgwick sits at the Velvet Underground guest table at a 1966 dinner hosted by the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry at the Delmonico Hotel. Born into a family of wealthy and patrician New Englanders, Edie Sedgwick became, in the 1960s, bfoth an emblem of, and a memorial to, the doomed world spawned by Andy Warhol. ![]()
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