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Wilhelmina Gertrud Frieda Cooper (née Behmenburg; 11 May 1939 – 1 March 1980) was a Dutch-American model who began with Ford Models, and at the peak of her success, founded her own agency, Wilhelmina Models, in New York City in 1967.
Wilhelmina International Inc. was founded in 1967 by Dutch-American model Wilhelmina Cooper and husband Victor Bruce Cooper, as well as minority partners Bill Weinberg and Fran Rothchild. As of 1997, the company is one of the oldest and largest full-service model management companies in the world. [3]
After her agent, mentor and friend Wilhelmina Cooper, died of lung cancer in March 1980, a devastated Carangi began using drugs and developed an addiction to heroin. [ 16 ] [ 17 ] Carangi's addiction soon began to affect her work; she had violent temper tantrums, walked out of photo shoots to buy drugs, and fell asleep in front of the camera.
Gia Carangi is a Philadelphia native who moves to New York City to become a fashion model and immediately catches the attention of the powerful agent Wilhelmina Cooper. Gia's attitude and beauty help her rise quickly to the forefront of the modeling industry.
Due to the death of Wilhelmina Cooper, models were in a panic bouncing from agency to agency. Even the highest paid black model at the time Beverly Johnson left Elite for Ford, only to return to Elite a week later. [9] Models such as Christie Brinkley and Anna Andersen sued Elite after they exited. In 1981, Elite Models formed a partnership ...
In a 2022 interview with GRAZIA, Ponton said she signed with Wilhelmina Models during a 2020 spring break trip to N.Y.C. — just two weeks before the COVID-19 quarantine began.Because work was ...
She played an unglamorous alcoholic in 1987’s “Barfly” and won a Golden Globe for playing modeling agency founder Wilhelmina Cooper opposite a young Angelina Jolie in HBO's “Gia.” ...
This list of Vogue cover models/celebs 1929–present is a catalog of cover models who have appeared on the ... Wilhelmina Cooper: Karen Radkai February 1: Wilhelmina ...