The Self-Destruction of Gia The meteoric rise and bottomless fall of late-'70s/early-'80s supermodel Gia Carangi -- already the subject of Michael Cristofer's widely seen 1998 HBO telepic "Gia ...

Gia Carangi was a supermodel before the term was widely used, pouting bewitchingly from the covers of international fashion magazines in the late '70s. She died of AIDS in 1986, at age 26.

Eight years after author Stephen Fried first chronicled the short, sad life of ‘70s model Gia Carangi in “Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia,” two networks are featuring dueling ...

A “Gia Carangi Shrine” on the Web ... Discovered by a Manhattan photographer at one of those “in-crowd” ’70s discos, she announced herself at the top-dollar Wilhelmina modeling agency ...

But, hang on. Did you catch the name in the middle there: Gia Carangi? Younger readers, unless they have seen the eponymous 1998 film Gia in which Angelina Jolie played Carangi, may need some ...

Considered by many to be the first supermodel, Gia Carangi was only 26 years old when she died of AIDS-related complications in 1986 It's been 25 years since Angelina Jolie starred as Gia Carangi ...

I created it because as I was writing about the fashion industry—and young model Gia Carangi's immersion in ... of Gia's supernova career in the late '70s and early '80s, and remembering a ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- October is LGBTQ History Month. One historic figure was Gia Carangi, who was born in 1960 in Philadelphia's Torresdale neighborhood. Her life was filled with ups ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia-born supermodel Gia Carangi was one of the first women to die of AIDS. On this World AIDS Day, Action News spoke to renowned makeup artist Sandy Linter ...