June 14, 2017
Actress Anita Pallenberg, longtime
girlfriend of guitarist Keith Richards who appeared in films including
"Performance," is dead. She was 73.
The actress died on Tuesday.
Stella Schnabel, daughter of painter Julian Schnabel, reported her
death on Instagram. "Thank you for the most important lessons," wrote
Schnabel, reports Variety.com.
An Italian-German actress, model, and fashion designer, Pallenberg was
known as an icon of 1960s style. She was said to have an important
influence on several Rolling Stones albums, and described herself as "A
vagabond. An adventurer. I am not a person with one specific talent. I
wish I was."
Her film roles included playing the Great Tyrant in Roger Vadim's
"Barbarella," a nurse in cult film "Candy," and in "Performance."
In her later years, she took classes in textiles, designed clothes,
gardened, and painted. She also appeared in an episode of "Absolutely
Fabulous" with Mick Jagger's one-time girlfriend and fellow fashion
inspiration Marianne Faithfull, with whom she remained close.
She met Rolling Stones guitarist Brian Jones while modelling in 1965
and left him in 1967 for Richards after Jones became unstable and
violent.
Pallenberg and Richards remained a couple until 1980, and they had
three children together: Marlon, Angela, and Tara, who died in infancy.
Richards has said that they were both addicted to heroin and Pallenberg
was charged in the 1977 Toronto drug arrest; the pair went to rehab
rather than prison.
She was also said to have had an intimate relationship with singer Mick
Jagger during the production of "Performance".
Pallenberg is survived by her two children and several grandchildren.