Among other things, she inspired Bob Dylan — with whom she’d had an affair — to produce In life, Edie got short-changed her allotted 15 minutes of fame. His long-suffering wife, Alice Delano DeForrest Sedgwick — just as famously — had allergies. Thanks, Lester!
But life, as someone famously famous once said, isn’t fair. At odds were Michael Brett Post, a Santa Barbara postal worker who met Sedgwick at the psych ward of Cottage Hospital and was married to her for just the last three months of her life. Either way, long before there were Kardashians — and even before the invention of “branding” — there was “Edie,” impossibly thin, ridiculously vibrant, and irresistibly outrageous.She also happened to be seriously mentally ill. And a hard-core drug addict. Naturally, the Bible, the Constitution, and even Sir Isaac Newton are stony on such matters. Sedgwick was first introduced to Andy Warhol in 1965. Please note this login is to submit events or press releases. Francis “Duke” Sedgwick moved his family from back East to the Santa Ynez Valley in the late ’40s after he discovered he could not become the railroad tycoon he’d always dreamed of being. He was not remotely discreet. One child would hang himself with a necktie; one would die in a motorcycle crash shortly after being released from a sanitarium. Opposing Post was filmmaker David Weisman, to whom Sedgwick had signed away all publicity rights for the making of Geck’s ruling hinged on a narrow legal question: Was Edie famous before or after she died? Michael Post was born in 1951 in Santa Barbara, California, USA as Michael Brett Post.
Instead he took up ranching, painting, sculpting, and chasing women. (By contrast, Martha Graham danced, Katy Perry sings, and Sam Cunningham integrated college football by running the pigskin for USC into the end zone of an all-white Alabama football team two times on 12 carries in an historic 1970 game in Birmingham.)
He was previously married to Edie Sedgwick. He is an actor and producer, known for Of an Armed Cavalier (2012) and Factory Girl (2006). Sedgwick married Michael Post on July 24, 1971, a fellow patient whom she met while committed to the Cottage Hospital in the summer of 1970. Conventional wisdom holds that Warhol made Sedgwick — the scion of Boston Blue Bloods who would transform themselves into the landed gentry of Santa Barbara — into “Edie.” I think a good case could be made it was the other way around. More than that, he and his wife donated 6,000 acres — 9.2 square miles — of prime ranchland, so big it encompassed two watersheds, to UCSB’s Reserve System for environmental preservation and education.
He is an actor and producer, known for Of an Armed Cavalier (2012) and Factory Girl (2006). During this time, she reportedly stopped abusing alcohol and other drugs for a short time. Instead, it would be left to Andy Warhol — smirking artist, sneering prophet, and high-glam flim-flam man — to deliver this revelation as if he were the second coming of Moses.Very much on Warhol’s mind at the time — the mid-1960s — was a dazzling vortex of doomed beauty named Edie Sedgwick, who nearly 50 years later remains the Santa Barbaran most famously famous for merely being famous. About American Model Edie Sedgwick passed away on … I could say, “But that’s another story.” Except, of course, it’s not. The pair hit it … In fact, she’d get a whole lot more: a best-selling book in 1982 and a Hollywood movie starring Sienna Miller in 2007. As for Edie, history may remember her as just another muse with a short fuse, but that sells her short.
Edie’s death is a hybrid: part suicide, part accident waiting to happen. Duke, famously, would have affairs. In 1989, Post filed legal papers asserting his rights to market his ex-wife’s likeness. Copyright ©2020 Santa Barbara Independent, Inc. Reproduction of material from any Independent.com pages without written permission is strictly prohibited. April 1943 in Santa Barbara, Kalifornien; 16.