Gia fell in love with Linter and the two started a romance that became the talk of the fashion business. "She sent flowers to me, and she really sort of courted me, which I thought was adorable. Eventually I did go out with her. She's the type of person at that time, and anyone who knew her at the time can tell you, if she showed up on your doorsteps and you opened the door and she got in your apartment she was there, that's it," Sandy explained. To Gia's disappointment, her romance with Sandy sputtered on and off again for months until it had nowhere else to go.
In January of 1980, Gia's mentor and agent, 40-year old Wilhelmina Cooper, was diagnosed with lung-cancer. Gia was devastated and as a result, turned to drugs. A month later in a photo shoot in the Caribbean, fashion editor Sean Byrnes, detected Gia's drug abuse: "In the rough ocean everything is splashing and crashing around on this little boat and cabin cruiser and I find this little package on the floor, I look at it and I say 'uhmm, not good,' so I throw it overboard and then the poopoo hits the fan on the island because she doesn't have her drugs." Gia ended up crying and very upset to the point where Scavullo literally had to lay on the bed with her until she fell asleep. On the right is snapshot of Gia on the boat on the way to the Caribbean.
One month after Gia returned to New York, Wilhelmina died. At the funeral, agents approached Gia with new contract deals. In the Spring of 1980, Gia found the perfect escape to deal with Wilhelmina's death. Heroin. Gia loved heroin so much because it made her forget her problems. She quickly fell into this dangerous routine which was becoming common among fashion insiders because being beautiful and of the moment meant having whatever she pleased. The fashion social scene offered easy temptations to ward off unhappiness. It was a time when drugs were taking people to very dark places and some of them didn't come out of it.
Photographers began suspecting Gia's behavior was due to drug abuse. "We all were aware that Gia was on drugs, it wasn't a secret, but nobody discussed it, I never discussed it with her," said photographer Francesco Scavullo in his ABC interview. Truth is that a lot of the people in the business were taking drugs, the whole era was out of control. And as an out-of-control drug user, Gia was going to galleries to shoot heroin. Photographer Michael Tighe remembers, "My impression of Gia as a person was spoiled, very aloof, she had this really wild energy. She was on some levels disrespectful to me." According to Tighe, shooting heroin was still considered very taboo at that time and you had to keep quiet about it. But in Gia's case, the problem was becoming more obvious. She'd walk out on shoots, show up late, stoned, or not at all and they would put up with her if they thought they could get that photograph out of her. The November 1980 issue of Vogue shows how far Gia's addiction had gone. The issue features photos of Gia sporting track marks in? her arm. The layout is called The Start Of Something Pretty... and was shot by Scavullo with makeup by Sandy Linter (Sandra according to Vogue). In some pictures the track marks in her arms are clearly visible. The following quote is from Stephen Fried's book, "In a number of the shots - which were of bathing suits and summerwear - there were visible, red bumps in the crooks of her elbows, track marks." "I remember when those pictures came in," remembers an insider. "There was a big scene in the art department." The shots were edited and airbrushed to minimize the obvious, ..."
Within a few months, all the money Gia made modeling was being spent on drugs. The addiction, however, didn't stop her from becoming fashion's latest "it girl." During the Summer of 1980, Gia graced the covers of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, but behind the scenes, she'd explode with unpredictable temper tantrums, walk out in the middle of a photo shoots and sometimes even sleep in front of the camera. She was more concerned about getting her daily heroin fix than posing in front of the camera.
Gia was consuming nearly four bags of the drug at a time, she wouldn't listen to friends and was very resistant to treatment. Elite agent Monique Pillard told Oprah in her appearance in the talk show: "I tried personally to reform her many, many times and I was never successful. You can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink, you have got to make her want it."
In November of 1980, Gia left the Wilhelmina Agency and signed with Eileen Ford. But Ford didn't tolerate Gia's erratic behavior and after three weeks they dropped Gia.
Not long after, in February of 1981, Gia vanished from the New York fashion industry with the hope of getting her life back together and get clean. Karen Karuza remembers that time, "I was in a night club with a boyfriend of mine and somebody had a cropped down neck and I looked over and this woman had her head down with this hair and she lifted her head up and it was Gia. She was just so strung out totally, and she didn't recognize me but I recognized her and it was really unpleasant."
Tired and ill, Gia enrolled in a 21-day heroin detox program. That Winter, she fell into a relationship with a 20-year old heroin addicted college student. It's been said that the girlfriend was even more heavily into drugs than Gia was. "I always suspected that "Rochelle" was into heroin, she even offered me some at one state and I said 'not for me.' That was a very wild on and off relationship for years," Michael Carangi told E!. Under Rochelle's influence, Gia slipped even further away from recovery. In the Spring of 1981, 21-year old Gia was arrested for drunk-driving and later she was caught stealing from family and friends. In June, Gia left her mom's house and moved in with friends. Once again, Gia enrolled into a drug detox program. But her attempt at sobriety was cut short by news that close friend photographer Chris Von Wangenheim, was killed in a car accident. It was the excuse Gia was looking for to go on a binge; she locked herself in her bathroom and spent hours shooting heroin.
After years of drug abuse, Gia's hand was scarred by an ugly abscess, her arms were covered with track marks and her back was covered with cists. In the fall of 1981, Gia was struggling with another drug-treatment program and putting on weight. Still, she was determined to beat her heroin addiction and return to New York. Gia contacted Monique Pillard: "She was sitting in my chair and I said, 'Gia, I want to represent you so badly and everything, but I hear a lot of negative stories about you.' And I remember I asked her 'well, why are you wearing such a long shirt? Can I see your arms?' And she said 'No!' And she held on to her shirt and she said to me, 'Do you want to represent me or not?'"
Despite her worries, Monique signed Gia, who worked hard to convince the skeptics by continuing her drug treatment program in Philadelphia and commuting to New York only when jobs were available. Still, getting a gig was tough so Gia turned to friend photographer Francesco Scavullo. He gave her a Cosmo cover. Shot in the winter of 1982 that, April issue of Cosmo would be Gia's last magazine cover. "It made me very sad, I had a tough time that day because I really wanted it to be her best cover and it wasn't; it just couldn't be. No matter how hard I tried it just couldn't happen. That wonderful spirit she had was gone, ' says Scavullo. It was said that Gia's arms were tucked behind her back in order to conceal the track marks, Scavullo denies the rumors saying that she sat in that position to hide a little bit of the weight she had gained.
Gia's condition was evident behind the scenes of an appearance on a 1982 "20/20" story about supermodels. She said she wasn't using drugs, but how she looked and sounded proved otherwise. She was offered $10.000/week to do catalog work abroad, but soon no one wanted to work with her. Monique Pillard remembers: "One instance when she was working in New York at a studio and the photographer called me up and said 'Come and get her, I am throwing her out of the studio. She fell asleep in front of the set and she burned her chest with the cigarette.'" Finally, in the Spring of 1983, Gia was caught with drugs on a shoot in North Africa and sent packing. Gia's career was over.
Gia moved to Atlantic City where she shared an apartment with Rochelle. The relationship was turbulent and Gia was more and more into heroin. "It was difficult to recognize her, I didn't at first but when she opened her mouth and started to speak, she had a very distinctive voice, I immediately knew who it was and that was shocking as well," said Karen of a second encounter with Gia.
After pressure from her family, Gia entered a rehab program at Eagleville Hospital in Montgomery County. She declared herself indigent and was on welfare. At Eagleville, a fellow patient named Rob Fay became an important new friend to Gia. "The relationships that you start there, you start bare naked and it's a whole brand new life there. She was really the only person I was real close to at the time. I remember one time we saw an old couple holding hands, it really touched her that those people had spent their whole lives together and still loved each other and cared about each other. She would pick up on things like that."
After six months of treatment Gia left Eagleville Hospital and stayed in suburban Philadelphia. She got a job selling jeans at the King of Prussia Mall mall and worked as a cashier in a local supermarket. She took courses at a community college and developed an interest in photography and cinematography. However, three months after leaving rehab, Gia vanished once again. "She disappeared and nobody could find her," says Rob. "I hadn't seen her for three weeks and usually when somebody disappears, they've either gone back to their old addictions, which is real com
เกียได้ล้มลงในความรัก ด้วย Linter และทั้งสองเริ่มรักที่กลายเป็นทอล์คของธุรกิจแฟชั่น "เธอส่งดอกไม้ให้ฉัน และเธอ courted จริง ๆ จัดเรียงของฉัน ซึ่งฉันคิดว่า ไม่น่ารัก ในที่สุดผมไม่ได้ไปเที่ยวกับเธอ เธอเป็นชนิดของบุคคลในขณะที่ และใครก็ตามที่เธอรู้ในเวลาสามารถบอกคุณ ถ้าเธอปรากฏตัวบนนี่ของคุณและคุณเปิดประตูและเธอได้ในอพาร์ทเมนท์ของเธออยู่นั่น ที่เป็น แซนดี้อธิบาย การผิดหวังของเกีย รักของเธอกับแซนดี้ sputtered และปิดอีกเดือนจนกว่าจะมีเด็กไป ในเดือน 1980 มกราคม เกียของที่ปรึกษาและตัวแทน คูเปอร์วิลเฮลมินา 40 - ปี ถูกวินิจฉัยกับโรคมะเร็งปอด เกียถูกทำลาย และเป็นผลให้ กลายเป็นยาเสพติด เดือนต่อไปในการถ่ายภาพในแคริบเบียน บรรณาธิการแฟชั่นฌอน Byrnes ตรวจพบของเกียเสพ: "ในมหาสมุทรหยาบ จึงสาด และ crashing รอบนี้เรือลำน้อยครุยเซอร์เคบินและค้นหาแพคเกจนี้น้อยชั้น ขอดูได้ และผมบอกว่า ' อึม ไม่ ดี เพื่อผมโยนมันถูกโยนลงทะเลแล้ว poopoo ฮิตพัดลมบนเกาะเนื่องจากเธอไม่มียาเสพติดของเธอ" เกียจบร้องไห้ และอืดมากไปที่ Scavullo ได้ไปวางบนเตียงนอนกับเธอจนเธอล้มลงหลับอย่างแท้จริง ด้านขวาเป็นสแนปช็อตของเกียบนเรือให้คาริเบียน หนึ่งเดือนหลังจากเกียกลับไปนิวยอร์ก วิลเฮลมินาเสียชีวิต ในงานศพ บริษัทตัวแทนประดับเกีย ด้วยข้อเสนอสัญญาใหม่ ในฤดูใบไม้ผลิของปี 1980 เกียพบสะดวกในการจัดการกับความตายของวิลเฮลมินา เฮโรอีน เกียรักเฮโรอีนมากเนื่องจากมันทำให้เธอลืมปัญหาของเธอ เธอล้มลงอย่างรวดเร็วเป็นประจำอันตรายนี้ได้กลายเป็นระหว่างบุคคลภายในแฟชั่นทั่วไปเนื่องจากมีความสวยงาม และของขณะนั้นหมายถึง มีสิ่งที่เธอยินดี ฉากสังคมแฟชั่นนำเสนอเทมป์เทชันส์ง่ายไล่ทุกข์ มันเป็นเวลาเมื่อยาถูกนำคนไปยังสถานที่มืดมาก และบางส่วนของพวกเขาไม่ได้มาจากมัน Photographers began suspecting Gia's behavior was due to drug abuse. "We all were aware that Gia was on drugs, it wasn't a secret, but nobody discussed it, I never discussed it with her," said photographer Francesco Scavullo in his ABC interview. Truth is that a lot of the people in the business were taking drugs, the whole era was out of control. And as an out-of-control drug user, Gia was going to galleries to shoot heroin. Photographer Michael Tighe remembers, "My impression of Gia as a person was spoiled, very aloof, she had this really wild energy. She was on some levels disrespectful to me." According to Tighe, shooting heroin was still considered very taboo at that time and you had to keep quiet about it. But in Gia's case, the problem was becoming more obvious. She'd walk out on shoots, show up late, stoned, or not at all and they would put up with her if they thought they could get that photograph out of her. The November 1980 issue of Vogue shows how far Gia's addiction had gone. The issue features photos of Gia sporting track marks in? her arm. The layout is called The Start Of Something Pretty... and was shot by Scavullo with makeup by Sandy Linter (Sandra according to Vogue). In some pictures the track marks in her arms are clearly visible. The following quote is from Stephen Fried's book, "In a number of the shots - which were of bathing suits and summerwear - there were visible, red bumps in the crooks of her elbows, track marks." "I remember when those pictures came in," remembers an insider. "There was a big scene in the art department." The shots were edited and airbrushed to minimize the obvious, ..." Within a few months, all the money Gia made modeling was being spent on drugs. The addiction, however, didn't stop her from becoming fashion's latest "it girl." During the Summer of 1980, Gia graced the covers of Vogue and Cosmopolitan, but behind the scenes, she'd explode with unpredictable temper tantrums, walk out in the middle of a photo shoots and sometimes even sleep in front of the camera. She was more concerned about getting her daily heroin fix than posing in front of the camera. Gia was consuming nearly four bags of the drug at a time, she wouldn't listen to friends and was very resistant to treatment. Elite agent Monique Pillard told Oprah in her appearance in the talk show: "I tried personally to reform her many, many times and I was never successful. You can take a horse to water but you cannot make him drink, you have got to make her want it." In November of 1980, Gia left the Wilhelmina Agency and signed with Eileen Ford. But Ford didn't tolerate Gia's erratic behavior and after three weeks they dropped Gia. Not long after, in February of 1981, Gia vanished from the New York fashion industry with the hope of getting her life back together and get clean. Karen Karuza remembers that time, "I was in a night club with a boyfriend of mine and somebody had a cropped down neck and I looked over and this woman had her head down with this hair and she lifted her head up and it was Gia. She was just so strung out totally, and she didn't recognize me but I recognized her and it was really unpleasant." Tired and ill, Gia enrolled in a 21-day heroin detox program. That Winter, she fell into a relationship with a 20-year old heroin addicted college student. It's been said that the girlfriend was even more heavily into drugs than Gia was. "I always suspected that "Rochelle" was into heroin, she even offered me some at one state and I said 'not for me.' That was a very wild on and off relationship for years," Michael Carangi told E!. Under Rochelle's influence, Gia slipped even further away from recovery. In the Spring of 1981, 21-year old Gia was arrested for drunk-driving and later she was caught stealing from family and friends. In June, Gia left her mom's house and moved in with friends. Once again, Gia enrolled into a drug detox program. But her attempt at sobriety was cut short by news that close friend photographer Chris Von Wangenheim, was killed in a car accident. It was the excuse Gia was looking for to go on a binge; she locked herself in her bathroom and spent hours shooting heroin. After years of drug abuse, Gia's hand was scarred by an ugly abscess, her arms were covered with track marks and her back was covered with cists. In the fall of 1981, Gia was struggling with another drug-treatment program and putting on weight. Still, she was determined to beat her heroin addiction and return to New York. Gia contacted Monique Pillard: "She was sitting in my chair and I said, 'Gia, I want to represent you so badly and everything, but I hear a lot of negative stories about you.' And I remember I asked her 'well, why are you wearing such a long shirt? Can I see your arms?' And she said 'No!' And she held on to her shirt and she said to me, 'Do you want to represent me or not?'" Despite her worries, Monique signed Gia, who worked hard to convince the skeptics by continuing her drug treatment program in Philadelphia and commuting to New York only when jobs were available. Still, getting a gig was tough so Gia turned to friend photographer Francesco Scavullo. He gave her a Cosmo cover. Shot in the winter of 1982 that, April issue of Cosmo would be Gia's last magazine cover. "It made me very sad, I had a tough time that day because I really wanted it to be her best cover and it wasn't; it just couldn't be. No matter how hard I tried it just couldn't happen. That wonderful spirit she had was gone, ' says Scavullo. It was said that Gia's arms were tucked behind her back in order to conceal the track marks, Scavullo denies the rumors saying that she sat in that position to hide a little bit of the weight she had gained. Gia's condition was evident behind the scenes of an appearance on a 1982 "20/20" story about supermodels. She said she wasn't using drugs, but how she looked and sounded proved otherwise. She was offered $10.000/week to do catalog work abroad, but soon no one wanted to work with her. Monique Pillard remembers: "One instance when she was working in New York at a studio and the photographer called me up and said 'Come and get her, I am throwing her out of the studio. She fell asleep in front of the set and she burned her chest with the cigarette.'" Finally, in the Spring of 1983, Gia was caught with drugs on a shoot in North Africa and sent packing. Gia's career was over. Gia moved to Atlantic City where she shared an apartment with Rochelle. The relationship was turbulent and Gia was more and more into heroin. "It was difficult to recognize her, I didn't at first but when she opened her mouth and started to speak, she had a very distinctive voice, I immediately knew who it was and that was shocking as well," said Karen of a second encounter with Gia. After pressure from her family, Gia entered a rehab program at Eagleville Hospital in Montgomery County. She declared herself indigent and was on welfare. At Eagleville, a fellow patient named Rob Fay became an important new friend to Gia. "The relationships that you start there, you start bare naked and it's a whole brand new life there. She was really the only person I was real close to at the time. I remember one time we saw an old couple holding hands, it really touched her that those people had spent their whole lives together and still loved each other and cared about each other. She would pick up on things like that."
After six months of treatment Gia left Eagleville Hospital and stayed in suburban Philadelphia. She got a job selling jeans at the King of Prussia Mall mall and worked as a cashier in a local supermarket. She took courses at a community college and developed an interest in photography and cinematography. However, three months after leaving rehab, Gia vanished once again. "She disappeared and nobody could find her," says Rob. "I hadn't seen her for three weeks and usually when somebody disappears, they've either gone back to their old addictions, which is real com
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