Margaux Hemingway

Born

1954-02-16

Died

1996-07-01

Birthplace

Portland, Oregon, USA

Biography

Margaux Louise Hemingway was an American fashion model and actress. She earned success as a supermodel in the mid-1970s, appearing on the covers of magazines including Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue and Time. She signed a million-dollar contract for Fabergé as the spokes-model for Babe perfume. She was the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. Her later years were marred by highly publicized episodes of addiction and depression, before her suicide from a drug overdose on July 1, 1996, at the age of 42. Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaux Hemingway, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.