Margaux Hemingway’s Death – Cause and Date

The movie actress Margaux Hemingway died at the age of 42. Here is all you want to know, and more!

Biography - A Short Wiki

Model and actress who appeared in Lipstick, Inner Sanctum, Killer Fish, They Call Me Bruce?, Deadly Rivals, and Bad Love.

She was the granddaughter of writer Ernest Hemingway. At the time of her death, she is survived by her two sisters Mariel Hemingway and Joan Hemingway.

She married Bernard Fauchier in 1979, and the couple divorced six years later.

Her later years were marred by highly publicized episodes of addiction and depression which would culminate in her tragic death.

How did Margaux Hemingway die?

On July 1, 1996, Hemingway was found dead in her studio apartment in Santa Monica. Though her body was found reportedly badly decomposed on July 1, the official autopsy and California death records list it as her date of death.

She had taken an overdose of phenobarbital, according to the Los Angeles County coroner’s toxicology report one month later,  although her family had difficulty accepting the fact of her suicide.

Mariel Hemingway’s husband told People Magazine in 1996 that, “This [year] was the best I’d seen [Margaux] in years. She had gotten herself back together”, but in a December 2005 episode of Larry King Live, Mariel said she now accepted her sister’s death as a suicide.

Quotes

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“I am not a Hemingway aficionado.” (Margaux Hemingway)

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“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.” (Margaux Hemingway)

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“For me, becoming a celebrity was like being in the eye of a hurricane. Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness. They wanted to rub elbows with me or brush up against me.” (Margaux Hemingway)

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“I remember being really poor until I got my first $250,000 check from Faberge. That was pretty nice; I put it in the bank, and from that moment on, there seemed to be a lot of champagne and limousines in my life.” (Margaux Hemingway)

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“My name? Of course it helps. If you’ve got it, use it. I’m proud of it, for sure.” (Margaux Hemingway)