![]() ![]() “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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