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| Anita Pallenberg | |
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| Born | 25 January 1944 Rome, Italy |
| Residence | London, England[1] |
| Occupation | Fashion designer; artist; former model |
Anita Pallenberg (born 25 January 1944) is a model, actress and fashion designer. She was the romantic partner of Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards from 1967 to 1979.
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Pallenberg was born in Rome, the daughter of an Italian artist and a German secretary. At an early age she became fluent in four languages and studied medicine, picture restoration and graphic design.[2] Before settling in London, she lived in Germany, Rome and New York City, where she was involved with the Living Theater, starring in the play Paradise Now, which featured on-stage nudity,[citation needed] and Andy Warhol's Factory.[1]
Pallenberg is known for her romantic involvement with Rolling Stones band members Brian Jones, whom she met in 1965 in Munich where she was working on a modelling assignment [3], and Keith Richards, for whom she left Jones in 1967 while on holiday in Morocco.[4] There were rumours that she also had a brief affair with Mick Jagger during the filming of Performance, although Pallenberg denied the affair in March 2007 when Performance was released on DVD. [5]
Pallenberg and Richards had three children: son Marlon (born 10 August 1969), Angela (née Dandelion; born 17 April 1972) and a second son, Tara (b. 1976 - d.1976), who died in his crib only 10 weeks after his birth.
Author A. E. Hotchner mentions Pallenberg's influence on the development and presentation of the Rolling Stones from the late 1960s and through the 1970s.[6][page needed] She played an unusual role in the male-dominated world of rock music in the late 1960s, acting as much more than just a groupie or partner of a band member.[citation needed] Jagger respected her opinion enough that tracks on Beggars Banquet were remixed when Pallenberg criticised them.[7][page needed] In the 2002 compilation release of Forty Licks, Pallenberg is credited as singing background vocals on "Sympathy for the Devil".
Throughout the decade that she was Richards' companion, her interest in the occult was a featured style component that marked the Stones concerts and public presentation.[dubious ].[citation needed] Tony Sanchez's account of his time as Richards' bodyguard and drug dealer mentions Pallenberg's strange spiritual practices: "She was obsessed with black magic and began to carry a string of garlic with her everywhere — even to bed—to ward off vampires. She also had a strange mysterious old shaker for holy water which she used for some of her rituals. Her ceremonies became increasingly secret, and she warned me never to interrupt her when she was working on a spell."[8]
She shared Richards' drug addiction[citation needed] and was charged first in the 1977 Toronto heroin arrest that almost destroyed the Rolling Stones.[citation needed] A warrant for her arrest was the reason police came to search Richards and Pallenberg's hotel rooms; she pled guilty to marijuana possession and was fined, several weeks after Richards' headline-grabbing arrest. [9] Richards and Pallenberg separated on the advice of Richards' lawyers, who believed that if they stayed together, they would end up in more serious trouble.[citation needed] Richards stated that he still loved Anita and saw her as much as he ever did, despite his relationship with his future wife Patti Hansen.[10] In a 1985 Rolling Stone interview, Mick Jagger claimed that Pallenberg "nearly killed me",[11] when he was asked whether the Rolling Stones had any responsibility for the personal drug addictions of people close to the band.
Singer Marianne Faithfull, Jagger's girlfriend in the late 1960s, remains a great friend of Pallenberg's.[citation needed] They appeared together in the fourth series (2001) of the BBC-TV/Comedy Central/ Saunders and French production of Absolutely Fabulous in episode four, "Donkey", with Faithfull playing "God" and Pallenberg "The Devil" in a dream sequence experienced by Jennifer Saunders' character Edina Monsoon.
In 1979 a 17-year-old boy, Scott Cantrell, shot himself in the head in Pallenberg's bed with a gun owned by Keith Richards in the home shared by Richards and Pallenberg in South Salem, New York. The youth had been employed as a part-time groundskeeper at the estate and was involved with Pallenberg in an intimate relationship. Richards was in Paris recording with the Rolling Stones, but his son was present in the home when the teenager killed himself. Pallenberg was arrested but the death was ruled a suicide in 1980, despite rumours that Pallenberg and Cantrell had been playing a game of Russian roulette with the gun. The police investigation confirmed that Pallenberg was not in the room or on the same floor of the home when the fatal shot was fired. [12][page needed]
Pallenberg has appeared in more than a dozen films over a forty year span. Most notably, she appeared as The Great Tyrant in Roger Vadim's cult-classic sci-fi film Barbarella, the sleeper wife of Michel Piccoli in the film Dillinger Is Dead, directed by Marco Ferreri. She had a small part in Micheal Kohlhass - der Rebell which was filmed in Morocco in 1969 and the 1970 avant-garde Performance in which she played the role of Pherber (actually filmed in 1968 but not released for two years). She appeared in a 1968 documentary about the Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil, directed by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard. In a March 2007 interview Anita related her encounters in Rome in 1960, while La Dolce Vita was happening,[clarification needed] with legendary Italian filmakers such as Federico Fellini, Alberto Moravia, Luchino Visconti and Pier Paolo Pasolini.[13] In 1985 for the video of "Wild Boys" Duran Duran used the clip of Pallenberg from Barbarella.
Pallenberg has been portrayed in popular film and television. Monet Mazur played a young Pallenberg in the 2005 film Stoned, a biographical film about the last year of Brian Jones' life. In 2006 the NBC television show Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip included a story arc in which the character Harriet Hayes was hired to play Pallenberg in a film.
Pallenberg became a fashion designer during the 1990s, after four years at London's St. Martins School of Art and Design. [1] She now divides her time between New York City and Europe, and sporadically appears in public as a party DJ.[citation needed]
