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Faithfull passed away Thursday in London, her music promotion company Republic Media said.
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The blonde, voluptuous Faithfull was a celebrity before turning 17, homeless by her mid-20s and an inspiration to peers and younger artists by her early 30s, when her raw, explicit 香蕉视频直播淏roken English香蕉视频直播� album brought her the kinds of reviews the Stones had received. Over the following decades, her admirers would include Beck, Billy Corgan, Nick Cave and PJ Harvey, although her history would always be closely tied to the Stones and to the years she dated Mick Jagger.
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She and Jagger began seeing each other in 1966 and became one of the most glamorous and notorious couples of 香蕉视频直播淪winging London,香蕉视频直播� with Faithfull once declaring that if LSD 香蕉视频直播渨asn香蕉视频直播檛 meant to happen, it wouldn香蕉视频直播檛 have been invented.香蕉视频直播� Their rejection of conventional values was defined by a widely publicized 1967 drug bust that left Jagger and Richards briefly in jail and Faithfull identified in tabloids as 香蕉视频直播淣aked Girl At Stones Party,香蕉视频直播� a label she would find humiliating and inescapable.
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She had become addicted to heroin in the late 香蕉视频直播�60s, suffered a miscarriage while seven months pregnant and nearly died from an overdose of sleeping pills. (Jagger, meanwhile, had an affair with Pallenberg and had a baby with actor Marsha Hunt). By the early 香蕉视频直播�70s, Faithfull was living in the streets of London and had lost custody of the son, Nicholas, she had with her estranged husband, the gallery owner John Dunbar. She would also battle anorexia and hepatitis, was treated for breast cancer, broke her hip in a fall and was hospitalized with COVID-19 in 2020.
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Her interests extended to theater, film and television. Faithfull began acting in the 1960s, including an appearance in Jean-Luc Godard香蕉视频直播檚 香蕉视频直播淢ade In U.S.A.香蕉视频直播� and stage roles in 香蕉视频直播淗amlet香蕉视频直播� and Chekhov香蕉视频直播檚 香蕉视频直播淭hree Sisters.香蕉视频直播� She would later appear in such films as 香蕉视频直播淭he Girl on a Motorcycle,香蕉视频直播� 香蕉视频直播淢arie Antoinette香蕉视频直播� and 香蕉视频直播淭he Girl from Nagasaki,香蕉视频直播� and the TV series 香蕉视频直播淎bsolutely Fabulous,香蕉视频直播� in which she was cast as 香蕉视频直播� and did not flinch from playing 香蕉视频直播� God.
Faithful was married three times, and in recent years dated her manager, Francois Ravard. Jagger was her most famous lover, but other men in her life included Richards (香蕉视频直播渟o great and memorable,香蕉视频直播� she would say of their one-night stand), David Bowie and the early rock star Gene Pitney. Among the rejected: Bob Dylan, who had been so taken that he was writing a song about her, until Faithfull, pregnant with her son at the time, turned him down.
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Faithfull香蕉视频直播檚 heritage was one of intrigue, decadence and fallen empires. Her father was a British intelligence officer during World War II who helped saved her mother from the Nazis in Vienna. Faithfull香蕉视频直播檚 more distant ancestors included various Austro-Hungarian aristocrats and Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, a 19th century Austrian whose last name and scandalous novel 香蕉视频直播淰enus in Furs香蕉视频直播� helped create the term 香蕉视频直播渕asochism.香蕉视频直播�
Faithfull香蕉视频直播檚 parents separated when she was 6 and her childhood would include time in a convent and in what she would call a 香蕉视频直播渘utty香蕉视频直播� sex-obsessed commune. By her teens, she was reading Simone de Beauvoir, listening to Odetta and Joan Baez and singing in folk clubs. Through the London art scene, she met Dunbar, who introduced her to Paul McCartney and other celebrities. Dunbar also co-founded the Indica Gallery, where John Lennon would say he met Yoko Ono.
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Her future was set in March 1964, when she attended a recording party for one of London香蕉视频直播檚 hot young bands, the Rolling Stones. Scorning the idea that she and Jagger immediately fell for each other, she would regard the Stones as 香蕉视频直播測obby schoolboys香蕉视频直播� and witnessed Jagger fighting with his then-girlfriend, the model Chrissie Shrimpton, so in tears that her false eyelashes were peeling off.
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