Margaux Hemingway

Margaux Hemingway met her first husband, Errol Wetson, an entrepreneur, at the age of 19 when she was with her father in New York for a business trip. She moved to Wetson’s apartment in Manhattan four months after meeting him and it was he who introduced her to several people from the Hollywood industry including the ‘Farbege’ folks.

Margaux and Wetson got married in 1975 but the marriage lasted only three years and ended in a divorce in 1978

In 1979 Margaux Hemingway married Venezuelan film director. Bernard Foucher. This relationship too didn’t last long and ended in divorce in 1985.

Margaux Hemingway was born on February 6, 1954 in Portland, Oregon, to Byra Louise and Jack Hemingway. She had two siblings, Mariel and Joan, and grew up in a farm in Ketchum, Idaho.

She graduated from the Catlin Gabel School in Portland before moving to New York to pursue her career in modeling.

She changed the spelling of her name from ‘Margot’ to ‘Margaux’ after learning that her parents had conceived her after drinking wine from the famous French vineyard Chateau Margaux.

The tall and striking, Margaux Hemingway entered the fashion scene in 1974. She achieved success quite early when she bagged a million dollar contract with Farbege fragrance ‘Babe’ and soon became one of Hollywood’s premier models.

She appeared as the cover girl in various magazines like ‘Elle’, ‘Cosmopolitan’, and ‘Harper’s Bazaar’. In 1975, a ‘TIME’ issue deemed her as one of the ‘New Beauties’ followed by an ‘American Vogue’ issue the same year which titled her as ‘New York’s New Supermodel.’

Using her fabulous and budding career in modeling, Margaux Hemingway entered the Hollywood at the age of 21 and debuted in Lamont Johnson’s rape film ‘Lipstick’. Her younger sister, Mariel, was also cast alongside in a supporting role based on Margaux’s recommendation. The film failed to impress the Hollywood critics and the Margaux was panned for her performance.

Despite her unimpressive film career, Hemingway continued to work in low budget films. While persistently appearing as a model for several brands, in 1979, she starred opposite Lee Majors and Karen Black in ‘Killer Fish’, a minimal budget horror film.

Hemingway’s strange trajectory in the film industry continued in the 1980s with failed films like ‘Over the Brooklyn Bridge’, ‘A Fistful of Chopsticks’ and ‘Killing Machine’. The actress also tried her luck at comedy in the film titled ‘They Call me Bruce?’ in 1982.

At the tender age of 20, Margaux Hemingway was the first model to sign a then record-breaking one million dollar contract with brand ‘Farbege’ for their new perfume ‘Babe’ in 1975.