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 ...

PHILADELPHIA (WPVI) -- Philadelphia-born supermodel Gia Carangi was one of the first women to die of AIDS. On this World AIDS Day, Action News spoke to renowned makeup artist Sandy Linter, who recalls ...

Gia was a 1998 biopic about the life of supermodel Gia Carangi. Jolie ended up playing Gia, who experienced massive success in her modeling career before tragedy struck. Gia was a film that dealt with ...

At 17, Gia Carangi was working at her father’s luncheonette; at 20, she was one of the top models in the world; at 26, she was dead. Stephen Fried tells her story in “Thing of Beauty” (Pocket Books).

Gia Marie Carangi (1960–1986) was an American fashion model, considered possibly the first super model. A biography of Carangi by Stephen Fried called Thing of Beauty (a reference to the famous John ...