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Born in Portland, Oregon, she grew up in on a farm in Ketchum, Idaho. But dad was Jack Hemingway, son of the Nobel prize-winning author Ernest Hemingway and, with that heritage, fame was almost foreordained. By the time she was 21, after the lead in the rape melodrama Lipstick (1976), she had a budding movie career, a $1 million promotional contract with Faberge perfume, and her face on magazine covers around the world. But, within the decade, it was all lost. Her sister Mariel Hemingway, whose role in Lipstick (1976) had been suggested by Margaux, was a much greater success. Margaux had started drinking heavily; two marriages had failed. In 1988, she checked herself into the Betty Ford Center for rehabilitation. Attempts to parley her recovery from alcohol into a revived career failed and, by the time she was 41, almost nothing was left. She lived alone in a studio apartment, no children, no lover, few friends. Neighbors informed police that she had not been seen for days and, on July 1, they entered through a 2nd-floor window. Dental records had to be used to confirm her identity.

For a time, I was living the life of Ernest Hemingway.

Having the last name Hemingway isn&#39;t enough.

I think it&#39;s a celebration of my rebirth, I think it&#39;s one of the most
positive things I&#39;ve ever done. (After posing nude for Playboy in 1990)

I loved to dance and went to Studio 54 at least twice a week. But I
always felt nervous around the people there. I was in awe of that whole
Halston-Liza Minnelli crowd. To me, they were the real celebrities and
I was just a girl from Idaho. So I drank to loosen up. I never thought
then that alcohol would become a problem. In my grandfather&#39;s time it
was a virtue to be able to drink a lot and never show it. And like him,
I wanted to live life to the fullest, with gusto. (People Magazine
interview, 1988)

I am not a Hemingway aficionado. (On admitting her limited knowledge of
Ernest Hemingway&#39;s literature)

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Margaux Hemingway

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