The family lived for several years on Ernest Hemingway’s farm in Cuba before relocating to San Francisco, where her father worked as a stockbroker. In 1967, they moved again—this time to the mountainous town of Ketchum, Idaho, the very place where Ernest Hemingway had taken his own life six years prior.
At just 21, Margaux exploded onto the modeling scene. With her tall frame and unforgettable face, she made history by signing the world’s first-ever million-dollar contract with Fabergé for their Babe perfume in 1975. Time magazine dubbed her “The New Beauty.” Vogue, Elle, and Cosmopolitan couldn’t get enough of her.
“Suddenly, I was an international cover girl. Everybody was lapping up my Hemingwayness,” Margaux later recalled. “It sounds glamorous, and it was. I was having a lot of fun. But I was also very naive when I came on the scene. I genuinely thought that people liked me for myself — for my humor and good qualities. I never expected to meet so many professional leeches.”
