Dylan's Sedgwick clan battle

Jan 2, 2007, 13:50 GMT

Bob Dylan REUTERS/Lee Celano

Bob Dylan will have to battle Edie Sedgwick's family if he insists on suing the producers of 'Factory Girl' for allegedly portraying him as responsible for her death.

The Weinstein Company, the producers of the film, have a video testimony from Edie's brother, Jonathan Sedgwick, stating that his sister was madly in love with Dylan and that she never fully recovered from her decision to abort his baby or the end of their relationship.

According to the New York Post newspaper, Jonathan says on the tape: "One day, she called me up, and she said, 'I've met someone. He's a folk singer. He's fabulously talented, and he's full of conviction.' Later on, Edie explained to me it was Bob Dylan.

"She told me she was totally in love with him. She also explained she lost a child which she claims was Bob Dylan's. She had gotten into an insane asylum, and she was so wacked out on drugs that they aborted the baby because the child would've been strung out. She said that was the saddest moment of her life.

"Her biggest joy was with Bob Dylan, and her saddest time was with Bob Dylan, losing the child. And Edie was changed by that experience, very much so."

Dylan's lawyer wrote a letter to the Weinstein Company last month demanding to see the biopic about his former muse before its release and has threatened to sue if he considers it to be defamatory.

The film stars Sienna Miller as Edie, Guy Pearce as Andy Warhol and Hayden Christensen as a folk-singer who is not called Dylan, but performs in the singer's trademark harmonica brace and fishing cap.

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