Diana Rigg

Since 1989 she has hosted the PBS television series Mystery!, taking over from Vincent Price. "Like a Rolling Stone" and "Leapord-Skin Pillbox Hat", both songs by Bob Dylan, were purportedly written about Sedgwick. By Stirling she has a daughter, Rachael Atlanta Stirling (born 1977), who is also now an actress. The Velvet Underground song Femme Fatale (on the album The Velvet Underground and Nico) is also reported to be about Sedgwick. She was married to Menahem Gueffen, an Israeli painter, from 1973-76, and to Archibald Stirling (a.k.a. Archibald Hugh Stirling of Keir), a theatrical producer, former officer in the Scots Guards, and a member of one of Scotland's grandest families, from 1982-90.
The Cult wrote a song about her life called "Edie (Ciao Baby)" which was on their "Sonic Temple" album released in 1989. Dame Diana was born in Doncaster in Yorkshire and lived in India between the ages of two and eight. Her death was ruled a suicide/ drug overdose.

Rigg was created CBE in 1987 and knighted in 1994. Sedgwick died in November 1971 from barbituate poisoning. On television, she has appeared as Mrs Danvers in Rebecca and as the amateur detective Mrs Bradley in a series of mysteries. Shooting resumed on Ciao! Manhattan in 1970 and was completed in 1971. In the 1990s she had triumphs with roles at the Almeida Theatre in Islington (north London), including Medea in 1993, Mother Courage in 1995, and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? in 1996. Electroconvulsive therapy treatments were administered extensively and several efforts at drug rehabilitation were made. Her other films include The Assassination Bureau (1969), Theatre of Blood (1973), and A Little Night Music (1977). In August 1969, she was admitted to the Cottage Hospital in Santa Barbara where she met Mike Post whom she married.

Her character, to date, is the only girl to officially marry James Bond. Sedgwick’s rapidly degenrating health saw her return to family in California and spend time in several different psychiatric institutions. On the big screen, she became a Bond girl in On Her Majesty's Secret Service (1969) playing Tracy Bond. After shooting some footage in New York, work on the film was abandoned due to budget and legal problems. In 1986, she took a leading role in the West End production of Stephen Sondheim's musical, Follies. In April 1967 Sedgwick began shooting on Ciao! Manhattan an underground movie in which she was to star. A nude scene with Keith Michell in Abelard and Heloise led to a notorious description of her as 'built like a brick basilica with too few flying buttresses'. The relationship ended in 1967.

After leaving The Avengers she returned to the stage, including playing two Stoppard leads, Ruth Carson in Night and Day and Dorothy Moore in Jumpers. During this relationship she became dependent on heroin and barbituates. Her professional debut was in The Caucasian Chalk Circle in 1955. In 1966, Sedgwick began a tumultuous relationship with Bob Neuwirth. Her career in film, television and the theatre has been wide-ranging, including roles in the Royal Shakespeare Company between 1959 and 1964. While involved with Dylan, Sedgwick was introduced to LSD. She is particularly known for her role in the British 1960s television series The Avengers, where she played the sexy secret agent Emma Peel. Following her departure from Warhol’s circles, Sedgwick began living at Hotel Chelsea where she became involved with Bob Dylan. Dylan’s friends convinced Sedgwick to sign up with Albert Grossman, Dylan's manager.

Dame Diana Rigg (born July 20, 1938) is a British actress. The friendship did not last beyond 1966 when Warhol and Sedgwick made an acrimonious public split. During this period the pair would often dress alike and Sedgwick frequently called herself 'Mrs Warhol'. She became Warhol's Girl of the Year during 1965 when she accompanied him everywhere in the New York social scene. It was during this period that Sedgwick began using illegal drugs, particularly amphetamines.

In 1965 she met Andy Warhol and quickly became his favourite 'Warhol superstar', featuring in many of his underground films including Poor Little Rich Girl, Vinyl, Beauty #2, the Chelsea Girls and Diaries, Notes and Sketches. She appeared in TIME, Life and Vogue between 1963 and 1965. In 1964, Sedgwick moved to New York to pursue a career in modelling. As a young woman Sedgwick suffered with clinical depression and anorexia nervosa.

Later in life, Sedgwick claimed to have experienced sexual abuse as a child. She was born in Santa Barbara, California as Edith Sedgwick to a troubled and eccentric establishment family which was seriously blighted by alcoholism and mental illness. Edie Sedgwick (April 20, 1943 - November 15, 1971) is best known as a star of underground films made by artist Andy Warhol in the 1960's. The Philosophy of Andy Warhol.

Andy Warhol. American Girl. Jean Stein: Edie. Jean Stein: Edie an America Biography.

Film Factory. Michael Opray: Andy Warhol. Victor Bockris: Andy Warhol. All Movie Guide (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll/).

Edie Sedgwick fan site (http://www.rams.demon.co.uk/esmain.htm/). Ciao! Manhattan (1972). Diaries, Notes and Sketches (1970). The Chelsea Girls (1967).

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Restaurant (1965). Vinyl (1965). Screen Test #2 (1965). Space 1965.