-great-great grandfather, William Ellery, was a signatory of the United States Declaration of Independence.[10] She was a cousin of the actress Kyra Sedgwick - Kyra's father and Edie were 1st cousins. In March 1965, Sedgwick met artist and avant-garde filmmaker Andy Warhol at Lester Persky's apartment. She began going to The Factory regularly in March of 1965 with her friend, Chuck Wein. During one of those visits, Warhol was filming his interpretation of the novel, A Clockwork Orange, ...