How often do Octagenarians jump out of buildings? Totally serious question.
The building she jumped from was the former home of Gloria Vanderbilt and the location where her son Carter Vanderbilt Cooper also leaped to his death
She was Katrina Vanden Heuvel’s mother.
According to Wikipedia, her father was Dr. Jules Stein, founder of the eye institute at UCLA that bears his name, and her daughter is the editor of The Nation.
Worked with George Plimpton at Paris Review and on books. Interviewed (and reportedly had an affair with William Faulkner). Ex-wife of Bill vanden Heuvel who worked for Bobby Kennedy.
Her father did business with Reagan. Her daughter is to the left of the left.
Thank goodness Anderson Cooper will keep the family name alive! Oh, wait...
She was 83 years old, and couldn’t get her hands on some pills to do it peacefully? I’m not buying it.
“A famous author, who penned biographies for Bobby Kennedy and Edie Sedgwick, leaped to her death from a Manhattan high rise on Sunday.”
Uh-huh. She ‘leaped’.
Makes me wonder if she was writing a book on Bill & Hillary Clinton...I hear that kind of thing can cause spontaneous suicidal impulses.
“Rapid Deceleration Trauma”. Actually a real technical term.
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I think that was also George Plimpton's book. If it's the one I'm thinking of, I enjoyed it too, even though Edie Sedgwick herself didn't seem so interesting.
I have never even heard of Edie Sedgwick. Had to look that one up.
I have never even heard of Edie Sedgwick. Had to look that one up.
You know the old saying, the older they are the harder they fall.
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What an odd headline to tell us she’s a “famous author” but not give her name. How famous could she be?
I don’t really care if these people are libs, or even out and out commies, suicide is a great tragedy that I’ve suffered in my own family. I don’t think suicide in the elderly is uncommon as they can often suffer from depression. I read about this woman’s death in the Post, but I don’t think it said who she was. My sympathies to her family and to Anderson Cooper also, I never heard about his brother killing himself.
It’s just a brutal thing.
I have that book also. She certainly had a privileged and interesting life. Probably a big lib. Perhaps a Trump presidency was more than she could bear.
“I’ve gone out the window.” - a line from a woody Allen movie.
She felt deserted and sought death in an attention grabbing manner.