Sandy Linter, a makeup artist who has worked with everyone from Christie Brinkley to Brooke Shields, opens up in her own words about Gia Carangi, their surprise romance and how Carangi would feel ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

On the 30th anniversary of Gia Carangi's death, revisit her life via the sizzling HBO drama starring Angelina Jolie.

THING OF BEAUTY: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia. By Stephen Fried. Pocket Books. $22. 392 pp. Before the modeling world had a Cindy Crawford, there was Gia Maria Carangi, whose meteoric rise as a su… ...

“Gia” from 1998 is a biographical film about the tragic life of supermodel Gia Marie Carangi, America’s first supermodel. Gia, played by Angelina Jolie, was very beautiful. She loved that ...