“For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me. As a child I had seen Lauren Hut-ton on a magazine cover, and I thought that the fast lane was as exhilarating as racing down a mountain on skis. I was meeting famous people and constantly traveling all over the world. I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Fabergé That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank and from that moment on there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life. Being on the cover of TIME was another high for me. I lost my passport in Spain, and that cover got me through customs.”- Margaux Hemingway for People Magazine(1988)
“I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.”
The film intended to launch the movie career of supermodel Margaux, but it did the exact opposite. She attracted the brunt of vicious critical attacks for starring in a film which centred around rape, misogyny and dark subject matter.
Margaux only made two more movies over the next seven years, became heavily involved with substance abuse, and the modelling industry shunned her because she gained weight.
She was found dead in her apartment at the age of 41, her death being ruled as a suicide. Her younger sister Mariel has always maintained that she was not suicidal, and attributes her death to drugs.
