Margaux Hemingway Biography

Fast Facts

• Named for the wine Château Margaux, which her parents had imbibed before her conception, and later changed her first name from Margot to Margaux
• The face of Fabergé cosmetics in the mid-1970s, her $1 million contract was the largest ever given a female model at the time
• Starred in the 1976 rape drama Lipstick, which also featured her younger sister, Mariel
• Posed nude for Playboy in 1990
• Died of an overdose of phenobarbital in 1996