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Within Warhol's career, he has painted many world famous people and created a lot of celebrities for the time. One woman who came out into the spotlight was socialite and heiress Edie Sedgwick. Edie's family had an impact since the American Revolution with her great great great grandfather being a signer of the American Declaration of Independence.

Edie met Andy in March of 1965 and became a regular at Warhol's Manhattan studio named The Factory. The infamous studio were anyone within Warhol's circle would hang out , was known nationwide and was the setting for many if not all of Warhol's underground films which Edie became a star in. Some of her films are Face, Vinyl, and one of more famous ones Poor Little Rich Girl. Her last film was Ciao! Manhattan, produced by John Palmer and David Weisman, before her death in 1971 and was release posthumously.

Lupe is thought to be Sedgwick's last Warhol film, but Sedgwick filmed The Andy Warhol Story in 1966, almost a year after she filmed Lupe. The Andy Warhol Story was an unreleased film that was only screened once at The Factory. The film featured Sedgwick, along with Rene Ricard, satirically pretending to be Andy Warhol. It is thought to be either lost or destroyed. It was then, after their relationship had become almost non-existent, that Edie left Warhol and his circle.

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.

Edie's life was something of a regular life during the Pop Art movement with parties that invovled drugs and sex and her health deteoriateing from the use of barbituates. This use would lead to her death in 1971.

Though her death was at a young age (28 years old ), Edie's name is still famous today with recently Sienna Miller playing her the 2006 movie Factory Girl.

Taken within the photobooth at The Factory
 

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