Margaux Hemingway

Margaux Hemingway
Hemingway in 1976
Born	Margot Louise Hemingway (1954-02-16)February 16, 1954 Portland, Oregon, U.S.
Died	July 1, 1996(1996-07-01) (aged 42) Los Angeles, California, U.S.
Cause of death	Suicide by drug overdose
Resting place	Ketchum Cemetery, Ketchum, Idaho, U.S.
Occupation	Model, actress
Height	6 ft 0 in (1.83 m)
Spouse(s)	Erroll Wetanson (m. 1975; div. 1978) Bernard Faucher (m. 1979; div. 1985)
Parent(s)	Jack Hemingway Byra Louise Whittlesey
Relatives	Mariel Hemingway (sister) Ernest Hemingway (grandfather)

Margaux Louise Hemingway (February 16, 1954 – July 1, 1996) was an American fashion model and actress. The statuesque Hemingway experienced success as a supermodel in the mid-1970s appearing on the covers of Cosmopolitan, Elle, Harper's Bazaar, Vogue, and TIME. She signed a million-dollar contract for Fabergé as the spokesmodel for Babe perfume. The granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway, her later life was marred by highly publicized addiction and depression. She died of suicide by drug overdose in 1996 at the age of 42.

Born Margot Louise Hemingway in Portland, Oregon, she was the older sister of actress Mariel Hemingway and the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. When she learned that she was named after the wine, Château Margaux, which her parents, Byra Louise (née Whittlesey) and Jack Hemingway (eldest son of Ernest), were drinking the night she was conceived, she changed the original spelling from "Margot" to "Margaux" to match.

In addition to Mariel, she had another sister, Joan (nicknamed Muffet). During Hemingway's childhood, the family relocated from Oregon to Cuba, where her grandfather had lived, then to San Francisco, and later to Idaho, where they lived on her grandfather's farm in Ketchum. The family would take trips each summer back to stay in Oregon with the daughters' godmother, who had a farm in Salem. Margaux struggled with a variety of disorders beginning in her teenage years, including alcoholism, depression, bulimia, and epilepsy. She allowed a video recording to be made of a therapy session related to her bulimia, and it was broadcast on television. Hemingway also suffered from dyslexia.