Edie Sedgwick - The Ciao Manhattan Tapes

How many different drugs did she take and what kinds?

I think she used everything at least once; I know she had used speed, pot, LSD, cocaine, and heroin, including many varieties of pills. But speed was her drug of choice.

I find the story with the photographer, who drugged her so unbelievably shocking and sad. How can a man do sth. I wish, he went to jail.

Truly one of the most beautiful women of all time. Ciao! Manhattan would have been so much better if they would have just kept to these tapes. The film was a mess.

The photographer Edie mentions as having raped her is most likely Bert Stern, who had a New York studio, was most famous for shooting Marilyn's 'Last Sitting', and who came onto Marilyn during the said photoshoot when she was drunk in bed. He described the situation as being "moments away from erotic pleasure" and said he thought of undressing her upon their first meeting. What's eerie is that I've heard Stern's photography work described as having "implicit rapism and necrophilia" in a book.

I don't think she had enough output for anyone to be able to determine if she had any talent as an artist. She made a few horse sculptures and then wandered off to Manhattan, where she spent her inheritance on drugs and allowed herself to be exploited by Warhol and his crew. She was a screwed-up rich girl who didn't have enough of a center of gravity to remove herself from her situation. That's the primary tragedy here.

I think Edie showed a lot of potential in her sketches which were beautiful, though as you pointed out, her personal talents couldn't be utilised since she didn't have the will to change her situation.

Nobody. Just one of the crew who hung out with Warhol occasionally. Nena was married to Timothy Leary, who I believe was Uma Thurman's godfather. Leary was quite the scenester back in the 60s.