It all started when Margaux didn’t answer her phone or respond to knocks at the door. Friends then asked a nearby worker to fetch a ladder so they could get into her home through the balcony.
When police found her, the former supermodel had taken a lethal dose of phenobarbital. The toxicology report showed she had swallowed so many pills that her body didn’t even have time to digest them all before she passed.
“You can’t escape the Hemingway curse”
Sadly, officials from the Los Angeles coroner’s office said the body was so decomposed that identifying it right away was difficult. At first, the police could only confirm that the remains belonged to a woman.
It was ruled a suicide. And heartbreakingly, she became the fifth member of the Hemingway family to take their own life.
“You can’t escape the Hemingway curse,” she had once said.
She died just one day before the anniversary of her grandfather Ernest Hemingway’s own suicide — exactly 35 years earlier.
More than her struggles
Margaux’s story is one that still resonates deeply: a woman who seemed to have it all but was quietly battling demons no one could see.
“Margaux was a beautiful, generous, and kind soul,” said her sister Mariel, who is still alive today at 63 years old. “Her struggles were real, and they were many. But she was more than her struggles. She was a person who loved deeply and wanted to be loved.”
Mariel has dedicated herself to advocating for mental health awareness. She contributed to the acclaimed documentary Running from Crazy, which explores her family’s struggles with mental illness.
