“I became fascinated by both of them.” Corbis via Getty Images “When I saw her, I saw what she had, because Warhol made it absolutely evident how alive and vital and fascinating she was,” says sister Alice Sedgwick Wohl of Edie and Andy.

Now, she hopes to “set the record straight.” Her new book, “ As It Turns Out: Thinking About Edie and Andy” (Farrar, Straus and Giroux, out now), reconsiders Edie’s life and partnership with the artist Andy Warhol, who crowned her the princess of his silver Factory and leading lady of underground film, and was later blamed for her drug-fueled descent. “When I saw her, I saw what she had, because Warhol made it absolutely evident how alive and vital and fascinating she was,” Wohl said. Then, in 2017 - 46 years after Edie’s death of a drug overdose at the age of 28 - Wohl happened upon a 1966 Andy Warhol film, “ Outer and Inner Space.” The experimental short features Edie, expressive and wide-eyed, reacting to footage of herself playing on a TV screen behind her. Redferns Before she took Manhattan’s art scene by storm: A young Edie with Skunk the Pony. “I didn’t understand who she was or what she represented.” Edie Sedgwick sits at the Velvet Underground guest table at a 1966 dinner hosted by the New York Society for Clinical Psychiatry at the Delmonico Hotel. … I just couldn’t see the point,” she added. (She said as much in Jean Stein’s and George Plimpton’s monumental oral history, “ Edie: An American Biography,” published in 1982.) “I’d been working in East Harlem, I was extremely upset and worried about the Civil Rights Movement, and then there was the Vietnam War coming up.

While Edie gallivanted around Manhattan in her signature black tights and chandelier earrings, burning through her $80,000 inheritance in six months, Wohl - 12 years her senior - was dealing with a brand new baby and grieving two brothers, who had recently died within ten months of each other.īy comparison, Edie seemed like a “silly, spoiled child,” the now-91-year-old Wohl recalled.

“Oh, I thought that she was impossible,” Wohl told The Post. Alice Sedgwick Wohl didn’t think much of her little sister Edie Sedgwick - the incandescent Warhol superstar and pop art icon who set 1960s New York ablaze with her gamine beauty, silver-haired mane and reckless extravagance.

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