"Too beautiful to die. Too wild to live."
Gia Carangi meteorically rises to modeling fame in the late 1970s but becomes overconsumed by persistent loneliness and drug addiction.
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Social & External
The people behind it
Angelina Jolie
Gia
Elizabeth Mitchell
Linda
Eric Michael Cole
T.J.
Kylie Travis
Stephanie
Louis Giambalvo
Joe Carangi
John Considine
Bruce Cooper
Scott Cohen
Mike Mansfield
Edmund Genest
Francesco
Mercedes Ruehl
Kathleen Carangi
Faye Dunaway
Wilhelmina Cooper
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