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ANITA Pallenberg, a model and actress who was sometimes called the muse of the Rolling Stones and had affairs with three of the band’s key members, including a decade-long, drug-fuelled relationship with Keith Richards, died on Tuesday at a hospital in Chichester, England. She was believed to be 75.

Richards confirmed her death to the Associated Press through a spokesperson. The cause was not known, although she reportedly had hepatitis and other ailments.

The alluring Pallenberg, who met the Stones by sneaking backstage at a concert in 1965 and offering the band hashish, may have been the ultimate ’60s rock-and-roll “It girl”. She quickly became the lover of one of the band’s guitarists, Brian Jones, then left him for Richards, with whom she had three children and a shared appetite for heroin.

The strikingly beautiful Pallenberg had such a magnetic presence – an “evil glamour”, in the words of Jagger’s onetime paramour, Marianne Faithfull – that she was credited with helping mould the group’s lasting image. dorée

Anita Pallenberg, the alluring muse who brought ‘evil glamour’ to the Rolling Stones, has died.

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