Gia was only 19 years old when she rose to international fashion fame, gracing her first cover of Cosmopolitan Italy. Her career lasted less than five years, but she became the world's first ...

Eight years after author Stephen Fried first chronicled the short, sad life of '70s model Gia Carangi in "Thing of Beauty: The Tragedy of Supermodel Gia," two networks are featuring dueling ...

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 ...

Kathleen Carangi. Gia’s mother, ended her marriage with husband Joe Carangi who was accusing her of being unfaithful and she had enough of his emotional and physical abuse for years. ... However, she ...

Gia Carangi, credited as being the world’s first ‘supermodel,’ would have turned 57 today. The US fashion model, who died in 1986 at the age of 26 from complications resulting from AIDS, had ...