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Carangi's final photo shoot was for German mail-order clothing company Otto GmbH in Tunisia; [27] she was sent home during the shoot for using heroin. She left New York for the final time in early 1983.
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...
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.
After being addicted to heroin, Carangi’s modeling career rapidly declined. She died of AIDS-related complications in 1986 at the age of 26, becoming one of the first famous women to die of the disease. Her life was dramatized in the television film Gia, starring Angelina Jolie, which debuted on HBO in 1998.
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.
Philadelphia-born Carangi died at 26 of HIV-related complications, most likely after sharing needles while injecting heroin. The melancholic bisexual, a Vogue and Cosmopolitan cover girl between...
Carangi models a spring look in a bright yellow fuzzy sweater and plain white trousers. Lensed in 1986, the year she died, this is one of the last modeling photos of Carangi. Her look for the image is quintessential ‘80s in a power suit and voluminous hair.
On November 18, 1986, Gia Carangi passed away from AIDS-related complications. She was only 26 years old. In fact, she was one of the first famous women to ever succumb to the disease. Her family held a small service in her hometown of Philadelphia.
Photo by Getty Images. Besides the tremendous success at such a young age, Gia Carangi was also quick to face her own downfall. Hooked on drugs, meddled in one scandal after another, she became someone whom nobody was willing to work with. No rehab program was able to help her in the end.
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. Born to a middle class family in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where her father owned a string of hoagie shops, she was especially close to her mother, Kathleen.