Editing Margaux Hemingway

{{Short description|American fashion model and actress (1954–1996)}}
{{Use mdy dates|date=September 2015}}

{{Infobox person
| image = Worldwide famous model Margot Hemingway was a guest of the IDF Shekem Company (FL62419504) (cropped2).jpg
| caption = Hemingway in 1976
| name = Margaux Hemingway
| birth_name = Margot Louise Hemingway
| birth_date = {{Birth date|1954|2|16}}
| birth_place = [[Portland, Oregon]], U.S.
| death_date ={{Death date and age|1996|7|1|1954|2|16}}
| death_place = [[Santa Monica, California]], U.S.
| height=  {{convert|6|ft|0|in|abbr=on}}<ref name=Marano/> 
| resting_place = Ketchum Cemetery, [[Ketchum, Idaho]], U.S.
| resting_place_coordinates = {{coord|43.686806|-114.366668|display=inline}}
| occupation = {{hlist|Model|actress}}
| years_active = 1972–1996
| spouse = {{plainlist|
* {{marriage|Erroll Wetanson<br>|1975|1978|end=div}}
* {{marriage|Bernard Faucher<br>|1979|1985|end=div}}
}}
| father = [[Jack Hemingway]]
| relatives  = [[Mariel Hemingway]] (sister)<br>[[Ernest Hemingway]] <br>(paternal grandfather)<br>[[Hadley Richardson]] <br>(paternal grandmother)
}}
'''Margaux Louise Hemingway''' (born '''Margot Louise Hemingway'''; February 16, 1954 – July 1, 1996){{efn|name=date|Hemingway's date of birth appears in her California death record, where she is named as Margot Louise Hemingway, born in the state of Oregon.<ref>[https://www.familysearch.org/search/collection/2015582 California, Death Index, 1940-1997], [[FamilySearch]]. Accessed December 9, 2024.</ref> The date also appears on her headstone.<ref>[https://fr.findagrave.com/memorial/2185/margaux_louise-hemingway "Margaux Louise Hemingway"], Find a Grave. Accessed December 9, 2024.</ref><ref>Deborah Kade, [https://www.beyondarizona.com/post/it-s-another-sunny-day-in-sun-valley "It's another sunny day in Sun Valley"] ''Beyond Arizona'', January 10, 2021. Accessed December 9, 2024.</ref> The birthdate given by ''The New York Times'' — February 19, 1955 — is incorrect.<ref name=nyt>{{cite news |last=Holloway |first=Lynette |title=Margaux Hemingway Is Dead; Model and Actress Was 41 |url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/arts/margaux-hemingway-is-dead-model-and-actress-was-41.html |newspaper=[[The New York Times]] |date=July 3, 1996 |url-access=subscription}}</ref>  Hemingway's body was badly decomposed<ref>James Rainey, [https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-08-21-me-36349-story.html "Margaux Hemingway’s Death Ruled a Suicide"] ''[[Los Angeles Times]]'', August 21, 1996. Accessed December 9, 2024.</ref><ref>Lynette Holloway, [https://www.nytimes.com/1996/07/03/arts/margaux-hemingway-is-dead-model-and-actress-was-41.html "Margaux Hemingway Is Dead; Model and Actress Was 41"] ''[[The New York Times|New York Times]]'', July 3, 1996. Accessed December 9, 2024.</ref> and her precise date of death is not known. Some sources suggest June 28<ref>{{cite encyclopedia|url=https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hemingway-margaux|encyclopedia=[[Encyclopedia.com]]|title=Hemingway, Margaux|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220217043110/https://www.encyclopedia.com/humanities/encyclopedias-almanacs-transcripts-and-maps/hemingway-margaux|archive-date=February 17, 2022}}</ref> or June 29, 1996.<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/margaux-hemingway/cast/1000196413/|work=[[TV Guide]]|title=Margaux Hemingway Biography|url-status=live|archive-url=https://archive.today/20220217043549/https://www.tvguide.com/tvshows/margaux-hemingway/cast/1000196413/|archive-date=February 17, 2022}}</ref> For official purposes, however, California records her date of death as July 1, 1996, the date on which her body was discovered.}} was an American fashion model and actress. The granddaughter of writer [[Ernest Hemingway]], she gained independent fame as a [[supermodel]] in the 1970s, appearing on the covers of magazines including ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', and ''[[Time (magazine)|Time]]''. 

She signed a million-dollar contract with [[Fabergé (cosmetics)|Fabergé Inc.]] as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume. Her later years were marred by highly publicized episodes of addiction and depression, before her [[suicide]] from a drug overdose around July 1, 1996, at the age of 42.

== Early life ==
Margot Louise Hemingway was born February 16, 1954, in [[Portland, Oregon]], the second of three daughters born to Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) and [[Jack Hemingway]] (eldest child of writer Ernest Hemingway). When she learned that she was named after the wine [[Château Margaux]], which her parents drank on the night she was conceived, she changed the spelling from "Margot" to "Margaux" to match.<ref name=nyt/> She had two sisters, actress [[Mariel Hemingway]] and Joan (nicknamed Muffet).

During her childhood, the family relocated from Oregon to [[Cuba]], where her grandfather had lived,<ref name=nyt/> then to [[San Francisco]], and later to [[Idaho]], where they lived on her grandfather's farm in [[Ketchum, Idaho|Ketchum]], adjacent to {{nowrap|[[Sun Valley, Idaho|Sun Valley]].}} The family took trips each summer back to Oregon with the daughters' godmother, who owned a farm in [[Salem, Oregon|Salem]].<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.oregonhomemagazine.com/home-style/1058-mariel-hemingway-in-portland| journal=Oregon Home Magazine| title=Mariel Hemingway in Portland| date=September 10, 2012| access-date=2016-04-02| last=McInerny| first=Vivian| archive-date=August 5, 2018| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180805112700/http://www.oregonhomemagazine.com/home-style/1058-mariel-hemingway-in-portland| url-status=dead}}</ref> She attended the [[Catlin Gabel School]] in Portland for her junior year.<ref>{{cite journal| journal=[[People (magazine)|People]]| title=Papa Hemingway's Granddaughter, Margaux, Is Fashion's Golden Girl| last=Wohlfert| first=Lee| date=December 23, 1974| access-date=2018-04-04| volume=2| issue=26| url=http://people.com/archive/papa-hemingways-granddaughter-margaux-is-fashions-golden-girl-vol-2-no-26}}</ref>

Margaux struggled with several disorders beginning in her teenage years, including alcoholism, depression, [[bulimia]], and [[epilepsy]]. With her permission, a video recording was made of her therapy session related to her bulimia, and it was broadcast on television. She also had [[dyslexia]]. In the 1990s, Margaux reported that she had been sexually abused by her father as a child.<ref>{{cite book| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=oAhC4mVpw6MC&pg=PA95| title=Reading by the Colors| last=Irlen| first=Helen| year=1991| access-date=2021-02-03| page=95| publisher=Penguin| isbn=978-0-3995-3156-9}}</ref><ref name=Eclipsed>{{cite web| url=https://people.com/archive/cover-story-a-life-eclipsed-vol-46-no-3/| title=A Life Eclipsed| first=Karen S.| last=Schneider| work=People| date=July 15, 1996| volume=46| issue=3| access-date=2014-10-25}}</ref> In 2013, her younger sister Mariel said in the documentary ''[[Running from Crazy]]'' that both Margaux and their older sister Muffet had been sexually abused by their father.<ref>{{cite journal| last1=Tapley| first1=Kristophe| title=Mariel Hemingway opens up about suicide, molestation and her family's curse in 'Running from Crazy'| journal=[[HitFix]]| url=http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/mariel-hemingway-opens-up-about-suicide-molestation-and-her-familys-curse-in-runnning-from-crazy| access-date=2015-02-16| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150216053235/http://www.hitfix.com/in-contention/mariel-hemingway-opens-up-about-suicide-molestation-and-her-familys-curse-in-runnning-from-crazy| archive-date=2015-02-16}}</ref>

== Career ==
===1972–1975: modeling===
Hemingway was {{convert|6|ft|m}} tall and had success as a model, including her million-dollar contract with [[House of Fabergé|Fabergé]] as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume in the 1970s.<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://ew.com/article/2001/06/29/papas-little-girl/| magazine=[[Entertainment Weekly]]| title=Papa's Little Girl| first=Nicholas| last=Fonseca| date=June 29, 2001| access-date=2021-02-03}}</ref> This was the first million-dollar contract ever awarded to a fashion model.<ref name=Marano>{{cite news| url=https://www.psychologytoday.com/us/articles/199612/what-killed-margaux-hemingway| work=Psychology Today| title=What Killed Margaux Hemingway?| last=Estroff Marano| first=Hara|date= 1 December 1996|access-date= 27 Aug 2022}}</ref> She also appeared on the covers of ''[[Cosmopolitan (magazine)|Cosmopolitan]]'', ''[[Elle (magazine)|Elle]]'', ''[[Harper's Bazaar]]'', and ''[[Vogue (magazine)|Vogue]]'', as well as on the June 16, 1975, cover of ''[[Time (magazine)|TIME]]'', which dubbed her one of the "new beauties".<ref>{{cite news| url=http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19750616,00.html| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080314080528/http://www.time.com/time/covers/0,16641,19750616,00.html| url-status=dead| archive-date=March 14, 2008| magazine=TIME| date=June 16, 1975| title=Margaux Hemingway (cover)}}</ref> The September 1, 1975, cover issue of ''Vogue'' called Hemingway "New York's New Supermodel".<ref>{{cite magazine| magazine=Vogue Timeline| title=Margaux Hemingway (cover)| issue=September 1975 |url=http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/margaux-hemingway| url-status=dead| archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150906115609/http://www.vogue.co.uk/person/margaux-hemingway| archive-date=September 6, 2015| df=mdy-all}}</ref>

During the height of her modeling career in the mid- to late 1970s, Hemingway was a regular attendee of New York City's exclusive [[discothèque]] [[Studio 54]], often in the company of such celebrities as [[Halston]], [[Bianca Jagger]], [[Liza Minnelli]], [[Grace Jones]], and [[Andy Warhol]]. At such social mixers, she began to use alcohol and drugs.<ref name=Marano/>

===1976–1996: film career===
[[File:Cary Grant and Margaux Hemingway, 1976.jpg|right|thumb|upright|[[Cary Grant]] and Margaux Hemingway, 1976]]

Hemingway made her film debut in the [[Lamont Johnson]]-directed [[rape and revenge film]] ''[[Lipstick (1976 film)|Lipstick]]'' (1976), alongside her 14-year-old sister Mariel, and [[Anne Bancroft]]. In it, she plays a fashion model who is terrorized by a rapist. The film's violent depiction of rape led it to be labeled an [[exploitation film]], though in later years it had success as a [[cult film]].<ref>{{cite journal| url=http://www.slantmagazine.com/film/review/lipstick| journal=[[Slant Magazine]]| title=Lipstick: Film Review| last=Henderson| first=Eric| date=October 12, 2003| access-date=April 15, 2016}}</ref>

She followed this with a supporting role in the Italian horror film ''[[Killer Fish]]'' (1979), opposite [[Lee Majors]] and [[Karen Black]]. Her following project was the comedy ''[[They Call Me Bruce?]]'' in 1982. In 1984, Hemingway had a supporting part in ''[[Over the Brooklyn Bridge]]'', opposite [[Elliott Gould]] and [[Shelley Winters]]. After a skiing accident in 1984, Hemingway gained {{convert|75|lb}}, ending up at nearly {{cvt|200|lbs}}, and became increasingly depressed. In 1987, she checked into the [[Betty Ford Center]].<ref>{{cite news| title=Obituary: Margot Hemingway| first=Tony| last=Sloman| url=https://www.independent.co.uk/incoming/obituary-margot-hemingway-5609688.html| date=September 18, 2011| newspaper=[[The Independent]]| location=London}}</ref>

Attempting to make a comeback, she appeared on the cover of ''[[Playboy]]'' in May 1990, and asked the magazine to hire [[Zachary Selig]] as the creative director for her cover story. It was shot in [[Belize]].<ref name="Playboy"/> Despite her attempts, Hemingway's budding film career began to falter, and she took roles in several B-movies, including ''Killing Machine'' (1984) and ''[[Inner Sanctum (1991 film)|Inner Sanctum]]'' (1991).<ref>{{cite news| title=Video as Drive-in| url=https://chicagotribune.newspapers.com/image/167172718/?terms=VIDEO%20AS%20DRIVE-IN%20FRED%20OLEN%20RAY%20CONTINUES%20THE%20CORMAN%20TRADITION&match=1| date=December 1, 1994| last=Liebenson| first=Donald| newspaper=[[Chicago Tribune]]| access-date=2021-02-03| url-access=subscription}}</ref>

Hemingway continued to support herself by appearing in a small number of [[direct-to-video]] films into the 1990s, autographing her nude photos from ''Playboy'', and endorsing a psychic telephone hotline owned by her cousin, Adiel Hemingway. Shortly before her death, she was set to host the outdoor adventure series ''Wild Guide'' on the [[Discovery Channel]].<ref name=Eclipsed/>

==Personal life==
[[File:Margaux Hemingway with Montes-Bradley.jpg|thumb|left|Hemingway with [[Eduardo Montes-Bradley]] in 1991]]
Hemingway's first marriage, to Errol Wetson (Wetanson), ended in divorce. They met when, at age 19, she accompanied her father to the [[Plaza Hotel]] in New York City on a business trip. Four months later she moved from Idaho to New York City to live with Wetson at 12 [[East 72nd Street]], which was owned by heiress [[Gloria Vanderbilt]].{{citation needed|date=August 2018}}

On New Year's Eve 1979, Hemingway married French filmmaker Bernard Faucher in {{nowrap|Ketchum,}} and they lived in Paris for a year.<ref name=onmoma>{{cite news |url=https://news.google.com/newspapers?id=ssBeAAAAIBAJ&pg=6038%2C504929 |newspaper=[[Lewiston Morning Tribune]] |agency=Associated Press |title=Once more, Margaux |date=January 2, 1980 |page=2B}}</ref> She divorced him in 1985 after {{nowrap|six years.<ref name="Playboy">{{cite news| title=Margaux Hemingway: 'Papa's Girl' (Pictorial)| first=Arny| last=Freytag| journal=[[Playboy]]| volume= 37| issue=5| date=May 1990| pages=126–35}}</ref>}}

Hemingway had strained relationships with members of her family. She had a tense relationship with her mother, though they reconciled prior to Byra's death from cancer in 1988. She also competed with her younger sister Mariel, who received greater accolades for her acting. In the 1990s, Hemingway alleged that her father, Jack, had molested her as a child. Her father and stepmother, Angela, resented the allegations and stopped speaking to her. Angela told ''[[People (magazine)|People]]'' magazine, "Jack and I did not talk to her for two years. She constantly lies. The whole family won't have anything to do with her. She's nothing but an angry woman."<ref name=Eclipsed/>

A 2013 television documentary film ''[[Running from Crazy]]'', in which Margaux's sister Mariel speaks of the Hemingway family history of alcoholism, drug addiction, molestation, and suicide, contains clips filmed by Margaux.<ref name=yahoonews>{{cite news |last=Germain |first=David |agency=[[Associated Press]] |title=Mariel Hemingway runs from crazy at Sundance |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/news/mariel-hemingway-runs-crazy-sundance-163835417.html |access-date=February 27, 2013 |newspaper=[[Yahoo! News]] |date=January 22, 2013 |archive-date=October 29, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131029204840/http://movies.yahoo.com/news/mariel-hemingway-runs-crazy-sundance-163835417.html |url-status=dead }}</ref>

==Death==
[[File:Margaux Hemingway.jpg|thumb|upright|Margaux Hemingway in 1991]]
On July 1, 1996, Hemingway was found dead in her studio apartment in [[Santa Monica, California|Santa Monica]]. Her body was badly decomposed,<ref>{{cite news|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-08-21-me-36349-story.html|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200805190612/https://latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1996-08-21-me-36349-story.html|url-status=live|archive-date=August 5, 2020|work=[[Los Angeles Times]]|date=August 21, 1996|title=Margaux Hemingway's Death Ruled a Suicide|last=Rainey|access-date=February 27, 2022}}</ref> and the precise date of death could not be determined. The autopsy report and California death records therefore list July 1 as her date of death.{{efn|name=date}} She had taken an overdose of [[phenobarbital]], according to the [[Los Angeles County, California|Los Angeles County]] [[coroner]]'s toxicology report one month later,<ref>{{cite news| url=https://www.nytimes.com/1996/08/21/us/coroner-says-death-of-actress-was-suicide.html| newspaper=The New York Times| title=Coroner Says Death of Actress Was Suicide| date=August 21, 1996}}</ref> although her family had difficulty accepting the fact of her suicide.<ref name=Marano/>

Hemingway was interred at the Hemingway family plot at Ketchum Cemetery in Ketchum, Idaho.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a37609/ernest-hemingway-grave/|title=Visiting Hemingway's Grave|work=[[Esquire (magazine)|Esquire]]|date=September 7, 2015|last=Holmes|first=Baxter|url-status=live|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151230174032/https://www.esquire.com/entertainment/books/a37609/ernest-hemingway-grave/|archive-date=December 30, 2015}}</ref>

Mariel Hemingway's husband told ''People'' in 1996 that, "This [year] was the best I'd seen [Margaux] in years. She had gotten herself back together",<ref>{{cite news| url=https://people.com/archive/last-act-vol-46-no-10/| title=Last Act| magazine=People| date=September 2, 1996| volume=46| issue=10| access-date=September 24, 2008}}</ref> but in a December 2005 episode of ''[[Larry King Live]]'', Mariel said she now accepted her sister's death as a suicide.<ref>{{cite episode| url=http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0512/22/lkl.01.html| title=Surviving Suicide of Loved One| series=[[Larry King Live]]| credits=Presenter: [[Joan Rivers]]| date=December 22, 2005| network=[[CNN]]| access-date=May 24, 2008}}</ref>

== Filmography ==
{| class="wikitable sortable"
|-
! Year 
! Title 
! Role
! class="unsortable" | Notes
|-
| 1976
| ''[[Lipstick (1976 film)|Lipstick]]''
| Christine McCormick
|
|-
| 1979
| ''[[Killer Fish]]''
| Gabrielle
| Alternative title: ''Naked Sun''
|-
| 1982
| ''[[They Call Me Bruce?]]''
| Karmen
|
|-
| 1984
| ''[[Over the Brooklyn Bridge]]''
| Elizabeth Anderson
|
|-
| 1984
| ''Killing Machine''
| Jacqueline
| Alternative title: ''Goma-2''
|-
| 1987
| ''Portami la luna''
|
| Television movie
|-
| 1991
| ''[[Inner Sanctum (1991 film)|Inner Sanctum]]''
|  Anna Rawlins
|
|-
| 1992
| ''La donna di una sera''
| Ellen Foster
| US title: ''Woman's Secret''
|-
| 1992
| ''Bad Love''
| Jackie
|
|-
| 1992
| ''Deadly Rivals''
| Agent Linda Howerton
| Credited as Margot Hemingway
|-
| 1994
| ''Double Obsession''
| Heather Dwyer
| Distributed by [[Sony Pictures Home Entertainment|Columbia TriStar]]. Produced by [[Eduardo Montes-Bradley]]
|-
| 1994
| ''Inner Sanctum II''
| Anna Rawlins
| 
|-
| 1994
| ''Frame-Up II: The Cover-Up''
| Jean Searage
| Alternative title: ''Deadly Conspiracy''
|-
| 1995
| ''Vicious Kiss''
| Lisa
| 
|-
| 1995
| ''A comme acteur''
| 
|
|-
| 1996
| ''Dangerous Cargo''
| Julie
|
|-
| 1996
| ''Backroads to Vegas''
| 
| Television movie
|-
|}

==Notes==
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== References ==
{{Reflist|30em}}

== External links ==
{{Commons category|Margaux Hemingway}}
* {{IMDb name|0000029}}
*{{Find a Grave|2185}}

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