In 1986, she was admitted to a hospital after being found on a street corner, badly beaten and raped by a homeless man.
We cannot know for sure because Gia died before seeking treatment.
Michelle was the teenage granddaughter who lived with Kathleen and Henry when Gia died.
Sondra contacted her good friend Wilhelmina Cooper and said she had to see this girl.
We think better of drug addicts than we do of the mentally ill.
Bart's Island in the Caribbean for Vogue, hair by Harry King, makeup by Way Bandy, May 1980 Gia Carangi for Vogue Italia, June 1981 Gia Carangi photographed by Andrea Blanch for Harper's Bazaar, Italia, April 1982 Gia Carangi photographed by Andrea Blanch for Harper's Bazaar, Italia, April 1982 Gia Carangi photographed by Andrea Blanch for Harper's Bazaar, Italia, April 1982 Gia Carangi photographed by Andrea Blanch for Harper's Bazaar, Italia, April 1982 Gia Carangi photographed by Andrea Blanch for Vogue, July 1982 Gia Carangi photographed by Scavullo, 1982 Gia Carangi by Linda Fence, circa 1983 One of the last photoshoot of Gia Carangi in 1986.