As revenge, he estranged her from his inner circle where she used to be the queen.
The Sedgwick children were educated in a private school constructed on the ranch, and given daily vitamin B shots by a local physician.
Eventually, they left the party, went back to their apartment where Michael gave Edie the medication that had been prescribed for her and they both fell asleep.
Suffering serial humiliations and setbacks, he played the game until the point, sometime in the early 1960s, when he had achieved his goal.
While they were together, she was consumed by lust, but when they were apart, she turned to pills for comfort.
Despite the fact that some of the material had been recorded months earlier, the album had been delayed by production problems and, it was later claimed, music industry politics.