Laurie Sagalyn/WWD/Penske Media via Getty; Eric Liebowitz/Citadel Ent/Kobal/Shutterstock Gia Carangi (L); Angelina Jolie in Gia (1998) It's been 25 years since Angelina Jolie starred as Gia Carangi in ...

Gia Carangi, credited as being the world’s first ‘supermodel,’ would have turned 57 today. The US fashion model, who died in 1986 at the age of 26 from complications resulting from AIDS, had a short ...

The meteoric rise and bottomless fall of late-'70s/early-'80s supermodel Gia Carangi -- already the subject of Michael Cristofer's widely seen 1998 HBO telepic "Gia," starring Angelina Jolie -- comes ...

For fashion model Gia Carangi, life was as short and hot as a burning fuse. That’s how she lived it. And according to a poem she wrote, that’s how she wanted it. She hit this town at age 18 as a ...

Fashion director Jade Hobson took her customary position at the Vogue photo shoot — directly behind the photographer Francesco Scavullo, in front of the models and using her trusty binoculars to zoom ...

Denis Piel, Gia Bathtime 10, New York, 1980. c print print size is 14x17 inches, Edition 3/50. Signed and dated. Gia Marie Carangi (January 29, 1960 – November 18, 1986) was an American fashion model, ...

Considered by many to be the first supermodel, Gia Carangi was only 26 years old when she died of AIDS-related complications in 1986 It's been 25 years since Angelina Jolie starred as Gia Carangi in ...