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 ...

Pocket Books. $22. 392 pp. Before the modeling world had a Cindy Crawford, there was Gia Maria Carangi, whose meteoric rise as a supermodel during the late ’70s was almost as quick as her ...

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 ...

At 17, Gia Carangi was working at her father’s luncheonette ... A: This was the late ’70s, when a lot of people were using them. She started out with recreational drugs like cocaine, which ...

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 ...

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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 ...

Angelina Jolie was the perfect choice to play tragic model Gia Carangi in this made-for-TV movie. Exploding onto the modelling scene in the late 70s, Gia was credited with being the first true ...

Gia's story is a cautionary tale—one of heartbreak and regret—and it only ends in tragedy. Factinate Media Group Posted: February 3, 2025 | Last updated: February 3, 2025 ...

At age 10, Ukraine-born Mila Kunis landed a small role in the 1995 short movie “Make a Wish, Molly” about a Russian Jewish girl newly arrived in the U.S. Kunis also played small parts in mid ...