On November 18, 1986 at 10 a.m., 26-year-old Gia Carangi died.
Her funeral was held on November 23 at a small funeral home in Philadelphia. Some of her old friends from Philadelphia chose not to attend, most because of their anger at her mother for not allowing anyone to see her. Nobody from the fashion world attended. However, weeks later, Francesco Scavullo sent a Mass card when he heard the news. "We were hysterically crying in the studio when we heard," he recalled. "I loved her. I could cry now, just talking about her.