Tuesday, December 5, 2017

Christine Keeler, former model at heart of Profumo affair, dies at 75


A fully-clad Christine Keeler in 1990, back in the chair made famous in 1963. Photograph: Terry O'Neill/


Christine Keeler, former model at heart of Profumo affair, dies at 75


Showgirl’s affairs with Russian diplomat and British MP John Profumo caused one of UK’s biggest scandals of 20th century

Caroline Davies
Tue 5 Dec 2017


Christine Keeler, the former model at the centre of the Profumo affair that shook British politics in the 1960s, has died aged 75, her family and a close friend have said.
Keeler, then a teenage model and showgirl, became famous for her role in the 1963 scandal that rocked the establishment when she had an affair with the Tory cabinet minister John Profumo and a Russian diplomat at the same time at the height of the cold war. Profumo was eventually forced to resign after lying to parliament about the affair.
Keeler’s son, Seymour Platt, 46, told the Guardian she died on Monday at the Princess Royal university hospital in Farnborough: “My mother passed away last night at about 11.30pm,” he said on Tuesday. 


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