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Scottish Sun
22-04-2025
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- Scottish Sun
Singer and Mick Jagger's ex Marianne Faithfull left just £35k behind after she died aged 78 without writing will
Marianne passed away surrounded by her family LAST GIFT Singer and Mick Jagger's ex Marianne Faithfull left just £35k behind after she died aged 78 without writing will SWINGING sixties icon Marianne Faithfull left just £35,000, newly released documents show. The singer and actress, who died aged 78 in January, had no will. Advertisement 9 Singer and actress Marianne Faithful died aged 78 in January Credit: Redferns 9 Marianne with Mick Jagger Credit: Rex Features 9 The couple shared a four-year romance Credit: PA:Empics Sport Her only child, Nicholas Dunbar, has been appointed to administer her estate worth £43,000 gross and £35,000 after expenses. Documents show her registered address was a residential home in London for members of the theatrical profession. Faithfull was known for hits like As Tears Go By, which reached the UK top 10 in 1964. She also had starring roles in films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle. Advertisement Faithfull was famously the girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger in the 1960s. She inspired songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. When she died the Rolling Stones legend led tributes to her saying: "I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull. "She was so much part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. Advertisement "She will always be remembered." Bandmate Keith Richards added he was "so sad" following Faithfull's death saying that he "will miss her". After a period of heroin addiction in the 70s she resurrected her career with the classic album Broken English. In recent years, she teamed up with songwriters like PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, who each cited her as an inspiration. Advertisement In 2009 she received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women's World Awards. She was made a commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. 9 Marianne passed away in London Credit: Getty - Contributor 9 The actress on the set of The Girl on a Motorcycle Credit: Getty Advertisement 9 The singer with composer and friend Warren Ellis 9 Marianne Faithfull during the filming of Thank Your Lucky Stars TV show in May 1965 Credit: Redferns 9 The singer snapped at Granada Offices in Soho Credit: PA 9 Marianne with supermodel Kate Moss Credit: Reuters
The Irish Sun
22-04-2025
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- The Irish Sun
Singer and Mick Jagger's ex Marianne Faithfull left just £35k behind after she died aged 78 without writing will
SWINGING sixties icon Marianne Faithfull left just £35,000, newly released documents show. The singer and actress, who 9 Singer and actress Marianne Faithful died aged 78 in January Credit: Redferns 9 Marianne with Mick Jagger Credit: Rex Features 9 The couple shared a four-year romance Credit: PA:Empics Sport Her only child, Nicholas Dunbar, has been appointed to administer her estate worth £43,000 gross and £35,000 after expenses. Documents show her registered address was a residential home in London for members of the theatrical profession. Faithfull was known for hits like As Tears Go By, which reached the UK top 10 in 1964. She also had starring roles in films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle. Read more Showbiz News Faithfull was famously the girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger in the 1960s. She inspired songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. When she died the Rolling Stones legend led tributes to her saying: "I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull. "She was so much part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. Most read in Showbiz "She will always be remembered." Bandmate After a period of heroin addiction in the 70s she resurrected her career with the classic album Broken English. In recent years, she teamed up with songwriters like PJ Harvey and In 2009 she received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women's World Awards. She was made a commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. 9 Marianne passed away in London Credit: Getty - Contributor 9 The actress on the set of The Girl on a Motorcycle Credit: Getty 9 The singer with composer and friend Warren Ellis 9 Marianne Faithfull during the filming of Thank Your Lucky Stars TV show in May 1965 Credit: Redferns 9 The singer snapped at Granada Offices in Soho Credit: PA 9 Marianne with supermodel Kate Moss Credit: Reuters
The Sun
22-04-2025
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- The Sun
Singer and Mick Jagger's ex Marianne Faithfull left just £35k behind after she died aged 78 without writing will
SWINGING sixties icon Marianne Faithfull left just £35,000, newly released documents show. The singer and actress, who died aged 78 in January, had no will. 9 9 Her only child, Nicholas Dunbar, has been appointed to administer her estate worth £43,000 gross and £35,000 after expenses. Documents show her registered address was a residential home in London for members of the theatrical profession. Faithfull was known for hits like As Tears Go By, which reached the UK top 10 in 1964. She also had starring roles in films including 1968's The Girl On A Motorcycle. Faithfull was famously the girlfriend of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger in the 1960s. She inspired songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. When she died the Rolling Stones legend led tributes to her saying: "I am so saddened to hear of the death of Marianne Faithfull. "She was so much part of my life for so long. She was a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress. "She will always be remembered." Bandmate Keith Richards added he was "so sad" following Faithfull's death saying that he "will miss her". After a period of heroin addiction in the 70s she resurrected her career with the classic album Broken English. In recent years, she teamed up with songwriters like PJ Harvey and Nick Cave, who each cited her as an inspiration. In 2009 she received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women's World Awards. She was made a commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. 9 9 9 9 9 9
Daily Mail
22-04-2025
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- Daily Mail
EXCLUSIVE Twist in death of Marianne Faithfull as records show pop icon and Rolling Stones muse died without a will and left tiny estate to her family
Singer and actress Marianne Faithfull who was the lover of Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger for four years in the 1960s left an estate worth just £35,000. Faithfull who died aged 78 on January 30 this year became the ultimate rock chick, inspiring Stones songs such as Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You Want. She also had flings with two other Stones – Keith Richards and Brian Jones – as well as David Bowie, but she resisted the advances of Bob Dylan and Jimi Hendrix. Her life spiralled out of control due to heroin addiction and homelessness in the early 1970s before she resurrected her career with a string of new albums including Broken English in 1979. Probate records revealed today that Faithfull who was married and divorced three times died intestate without leaving a will. Under intestacy rules, her entire estate of £43,000, reduced to a net figure of £35,000 after deduction of liabilities, will be inherited by her only son Nicholas Dunbar. Faithfull died after years of suffering multiple health problems, including bulimia, breast cancer and emphysema caused by decades of smoking. She was hospitalised for 22 days when she contracted Covid-19 in 2020 and was not expected to survive, but she pulled through, releasing her 21st album, She Walks in Beauty, a year later. Faithfull's grant of probate revealed she was living at the time of her death in the Denville Hall care home for members of the theatrical profession in Northwood, north west London. She reportedly moved into care in 2022. The singer was born in Hampstead, north London, on December 29, 1946, little more than a year after the Second World War. Her mother Eva was a Hungarian, half-Jewish baroness and former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis, while her father Major Robert Glynn Faithfull was a colourful character who had been a MI6 agent before becoming a professor of Italian literature. It was often suggested that Faithfull's free spirit came from her childhood at a country house called Braziers Park, in Oxfordshire, which her father turned into a commune where promiscuity reigned. Her mother later moved with her to a terraced house in Reading and sent her to a Roman Catholic boarding school. It was during this time that she started pursuing a singing career, performing in coffee bars in Reading. Her big break came in 1964 when she was just 17 and attended a Rolling Stones party where she was spotted by the band's producer Andrew Loog Oldham who helped her to release her haunting debut single As Tears Go By in the same year. The wistful ballad had been written by Jagger and his songwriting partner Keith Richards, but Oldham gave it to her because he did not think it was suitable for the Stones. Faithfull went on to release a string of captivating singles including Come Stay With Me, This Little Bird, Summer Nights and a cover of The Beatles' Yesterday. Despite having turned down Bob Dylan when he came to London in 1965, she began a high-profile four-year relationship with Jagger in 1966. One of the Rolling Stones' most famous songs, Sympathy For The Devil, was inspired by a Russian novel called The Master And Margarita, introduced to Jagger by Faithfull. As a couple, they epitomised the Swinging Sixties and attracted huge interest in the media, including lurid headlines. Faithfull was aged just 20 when police found her wearing nothing but a fur rug during a drugs bust at Richards' luxury Sussex home Redlands in 1967. The raid prompted a less than salubrious rumour that Jagger had been performing a sex act on Faithfull at the time, involving a Mars bar. Faithfull always insisted that the story had been made up, describing it in her autobiography as 'a dirty old man's fantasy'. Her popularity was enhanced by acting roles which starring in the Chekov play Three Sisters alongside Glenda Jackson at London's Royal Court in 1967 Faithfull was credited with being the first person to say 'f***' in a mainstream film, when she appeared in the 1967 film I'll Never Forget What's'isname. Her most famous screen role was in the lead tole of the 1968 film The Girl On A Motorcycle in 1968, which was noted for being America's first X-rated film. But drugs took a toll on her and her relationship with Jagger disintegrated as her pop career hit the buffers. Her decline was documented in the Stones' song Sister Morphine which she co-wrote with Jagger and Richards for the band's 1971 album Sticky Fingers. Faithfull lost custody of her son and went into a coma after a suicide attempt as she remained in the grip of heroin addiction which led to her being effectively homeless and living for two years in a squat in Soho. But her fighting spirit helped her make a musical comeback in 1979 with her album Broken English, and its signature song The Ballad Of Lucy Jordan. Her years of hard living, as well as severe laryngitis and drug abuse had left her voice sounding raspy, cracked and lower in pitch. Critics described her tone as 'whisky soaked', and helping to capture the raw emotions expressed in her music, drawing on jazz and blues in particular. Her other albums included Dangerous Acquaintances in 1981, which ended with the searing song Truth, Bitter Truth. Marianne pictured in 1968 on the set of The Girl On A Motorcycle She also played God in two episodes of the sitcom Absolutely Fabulous, and the devil in William Burroughs' and Tom Waits' musical, The Black Rider. Faithfull's final album She Walks In Beauty in 2021 featured her reciting the works of British romantic poets to music arranged by Warren Ellis, Brian Eno, Nick Cave and Vincent Segal. She received the World Lifetime Achievement Award at the Women's World Awards in 2009, and was also made a Commandeur of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the government of France. Faithfull was first married briefly to artist John Dunbar in 1965, then Ben Brierly of punk band the Vibrators from 1979 to 1986, and actor Giorgio Della Terza from 1988 to 1991 Jagger paid tribute to her after her death, describing her as 'a wonderful friend, a beautiful singer and a great actress', and saying he was 'so saddened' by her loss. Richards also posted that he was 'so sad' following her death while Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood posted pictures on Instagram of himself with her, along with captions saying: 'Farewell dear Marianne', and 'Marianne will be dearly missed. Bless her xx'. Faithfull's long-time friend, the BBC Radio 2 presenter Bob Harris, called her an 'encapsulation of the sixties'. He said that 'people began to see her as an artist, as a creator', although she was initially known as Jagger's girlfriend.
Yahoo
05-02-2025
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- Yahoo
The Many Resurrections of Marianne Faithfull
Marianne Faithfull, who died last week at 78, had her first brush with death in her early 20s. It was 1969, and the English singer had just arrived in Sydney, Australia, with her then-boyfriend, Rolling Stones front man Mick Jagger. Reeling from a recent miscarriage and the gilded chaos of being a muse to the World's Greatest Rock-and-Roll Band, she ingested more than 100 sleeping pills and didn't rise from her coma until six days later. The times ahead brought more trouble: She survived a decade and a half of heroin dependency, homelessness, legal battles over songs she'd helped write, the loss of her son in custody proceedings, and a lover who threw himself from an apartment window on the morning she broke up with him. Life hadn't always been so bleak for Faithfull, and it would brighten in the future. While still a teenager, she had spun her cover of the rueful Jagger-Richards ballad 'As Tears Go By'—about an older person lamenting the passing years—into a modern standard. She would never be a bigger star than she was on the heels of this hit, as a youthful beauty, a songwriting inspiration, and a swingin' London stalwart—but she only became a better artist with age. Faithfull's greatest comebacks were musical, beginning with the glittery sleaze of Broken English in 1979, an album that reintroduced the former starlet as a 32-year-old pop veteran with a croaky, drug-scorched voice. 'I feel guilt,' she proclaimed in 'Guilt,' though it sounded like I feel good. Faithfull might have had regrets, but she was not one for redemption narratives or performative apologias. Guilt was just another feeling—pointed, painful, and part of being alive. After Broken English, Faithfull was always making some sort of comeback. The Stones continued to sell out stadiums as their own recorded output grew boring. Faithfull, rounding the bases of midlife in a superficial industry, was forced to repeatedly reclaim her sense of dignity in public. During the '90s, she resurrected classics by Kurt Weill and Bertolt Brecht, ushering a cabaret element into her performances that matched her equally sophisticated and bawdy persona. In the 2007 film Irina Palm, she played a 60-year-old who turns to sex work and finds it liberating. These comebacks bore no taint of compromise, resignation, or shame. Her spirit was proud and transgressive; she retained a sharp edge as many of her male counterparts embarked on toothless adventures in decadence, advertising car insurance and enjoying the perks of knighthood. Faithfull appeared in fashion ads later in life—dancing and ad-libbing to the Staples Singers in a 2002 Gap TV spot, looking elegant and posh in a Saint Laurent print campaign—but these commercial opportunities were at least of a piece with her past reputation as trendsetter who left a mark on '60s couture. As she grew older, Faithfull kept finding ways to be herself in front of the media and her audience. [Read: Was classic rock a sound, or a tribe?] Of all her late-career resurgences, Faithfull's 2014 gem, Give My Love to London, might be the most lasting and unexpected. Made after a fight with cancer and debilitating back and hip problems, London captured a wistful air of retrospection in Faithfull's voice that sounded rollicking, loose, and at times anxious. 'The river's running bloody / The Tower's tumbling down,' she sang on the title track, responding with unease to an era marked by the tumultuous momentum of Brexit. 'Sparrows Will Sing,' written by Roger Waters, imagined a future in which 'the corridors of power will be / walked by thoughtful men,' but Faithfull took Waters's Pollyannaish bent as a provocation: She once claimed that she chose to perform the track because its author had 'a lot more hope than I do.' Throughout London, Faithfull sang with sorrow, but also fervency, and the balance felt wise. She might not have shared Waters's apparently rosy outlook, but still she knew the social purpose of hope: not just a reaction elicited by good fortune, but a feeling that people tap into when prospects look rough. Give My Love to London also reclaimed Faithfull's biography, twisting her life into something theatrical and enigmatic. A stretch in the '70s when she was unhoused and living in an abandoned lot seemed to reappear in the magnificent 'Late Victorian Holocaust' as an image of a couple throwing up in a park, only to sleep sweetly in each other's arms. The song was written by Nick Cave, another gifted songwriter who similarly surfaced from addiction with a more generous take on humanity. Faithfull could write wonderful lyrics, but she was unparalleled at filtering the words of others through her poignantly cracked voice, using a mixture of covers, collaborations, and originals as though to confuse any speculation about whether she was drawing from her life. In 'Mother Wolf,' a collaboration with the songwriter and longtime Madonna associate Patrick Leonard, Faithfull sang about a canine with a cub in its mouth that isn't hers, though still she must protect it from violence. The singer might have been thinking of her son, Nicholas, yet the point of this LP was not memoir. Faithfull seemed to be freeing her life story, shirking the songwriter's prerogative toward confessionalism in order to find more clever ways of describing her experience. One of her best covers came near the album's end: a treatment of Leonard Cohen's elegiac masterwork 'Going Home,' which he had released just two years earlier. The song's first line is 'I love to speak with Leonard'—which, as sung by Cohen himself, was a bit of self-referential solipsism. Performed by Faithfull, the song instead addressed an elderly contemporary and their shared sense of mortality, while reversing the persistent notion that her greatest legacy was as an inspiration for talented men. 'He does say what I tell him … like a sage, a man of vision,' she sang. It was an elegant example of how Faithfull could imbue her mythology with new energy, recovering her life from society's gaze, and reminding us that she and these so-called rock gods were headed to the same place, separately: to the grave. Article originally published at The Atlantic
