Edie Sedgwick
Edie Sedgwick
Sedgwick in 1966
Born
Edith Minturn Sedgwick
April 20, 1943(1943-04-20)
Santa Barbara, California
Died
November 16, 1971 (aged 28)
Santa Barbara, California
Occupation Actress, socialite, model
Years
active
1965-1971
Spouse(s) Michael Post (July 24, 1971 -
November 16, 1971)
Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (April 20,
1943 – November 16, 1971) was an American
actress, socialite, model, and heiress. She is
best known for being one of Andy Warhol’s
Muses. Sedgwick became known as "The Girl
of Year" in 1965 after starring in several of
Andy Warhol’s short films in the 1960s.[1]
Family
Edie Sedgwick was born in Santa Barbara,
California,
to Alice Delano de Forest
(1908–1988)[2] and Francis Minturn Sedg-
wick, (1904–1967)[3] a philanthropist, ranch-
er, and sculptor. She was named after her
father’s
aunt, Edith Minturn,
famously
painted, with her husband, Isaac Newton
Phelps-Stokes, by John Singer Sargent.
Sedgwick’s family was long established in
Massachusetts history. Her seventh-great
grandfather,
English-born Robert
Sedg-
wick,[4] was the first Major General of the
Massachusetts Bay Colony settling in Char-
lestown, Massachusetts in 1635.[5] Edie’s
family
later originated from Stockbridge,
Massachusetts where her great-great-great
grandfather Judge Theodore Sedgwick had
settled after
the American Revolution.
Theodore married Pamela Dwight who was
the daughter of Abigail (Williams) Dwight,
which means that Ephraim Williams, the
founder of Williams College, was her fifth-
great grandfather.[6] Theodore Sedgwick was
the first to plead and win a case for the
freedom of a black woman, Elizabeth Free-
man, under the Massachusetts Bill of Rights
that declared all men to be born free and
equal.[7] Sedgwick’s mother was the daugh-
ter of Henry Wheeler de Forest (President
and Chairman of the Board of the Southern
Pacific Railroad, and a direct descendant of
Jesse de Forest whose Dutch West India
Company helped to settle New Amster-
dam.)[8] Jesse de Forest was also Edie’s
seventh-great grandfather.