Edith Minturn "Edie" Sedgwick (April 20 1943 – November 16 1971) was an American actress, socialite, and heiress who starred in many of Andy Warhol's short films in the 1960s.
Edie Sedgwick was born at the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara, California to Alice Delano de Forest (1908–1988) and Francis Minturn Sedgwick, (1904–1967) a sculptor, philanthropist and rancher. She was named after her father's aunt (his mother's older sister).
Sedgwick's family was long established in Massachusetts history, with members having been painted by the artist John Singer Sargent.Edie's seventh-great grandfather, Robert Sedgwick, was the first Major General of the Massachusetts Bay Colony settling in Charlestown, Massachusetts in 1635. Edie's family later originated from Stockbridge, Massachusetts where her great-great-great grandfather Judge Theodore Sedgwick had settled after the American Revolution. Theodore Sedgwick was the first to plead and win a case for the freedom of a...
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