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    Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American model, considered by many to be the first supermodel. In 2023, Harpers Bazaar ranked her 15th among the greatest supermodels in the 1980s.

  2. Dec 2, 2019 · Gia died at age 26 of AIDS, likely due to her addiction to heroin, on Nov. 18, 1986. She was one of the first well-known cisgender women to be diagnosed with AIDS in the '80s. Back then, people...

  3. Jan 31, 2023 · Model Gia Carangi - whom Angelina Jolie played in 1998's Gia - was only 26 years old when she died of AIDS-related complications in 1986.

  4. Jun 13, 2021 · When Gia Carangi's life is remembered at all, it is remembered as a tragedy. Though she is acknowledged as the world's first true supermodel, her short life and her tragic demise mean that her name isn't as widely known as you'd expect from someone who had achieved such a feat.

  5. Sep 24, 2022 · A revered fashion model plucked out of Philadelphia, Gia Carangi became addicted to heroin and died at 26 years old from AIDS in November 1986. She was edgy, she was fiery, and she was falling apart. America's first supermodel, Gia Carangi died too soon of her own demise.

  6. Sep 14, 2018 · One of her first shoots saw her pose nude behind a chain-link fence with make-up artist Sandy Linter for photographer Chris von Wangenheim. The shoot was her breakout moment, and led to her modelling for labels including Versace and Dior, and legendary photographers like Helmut Newton and Arthur Elgort.

  7. Sep 7, 1997 · ''Gia,'' scheduled to be shown in January, is the story of the young woman who may well have been the precursor of all those haunting images of emaciated, hollow-eyed fashion models, the look...

  8. Gia Marie Carangi. Fashion Model. She was one of the first of the Supermodels, and was portrayed in a television movie, Gia (1998) by actress Angelina Jolie, about her life and death.

  9. Sep 27, 2019 · At the time of her death, Gia had burned many of her bridges with the fashion community. She was shunned by photographers and designers, who were fed up with her drug-fueled aggressive antics – and feared her HIV-positive status.

  10. Sep 12, 2005 · 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....

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