Mick Jagger’s love life has garnered almost as much headlines over the years as his music, and is said to have included sex with bandmate Keith Richards’ girlfriend Anita Pallenberg, according to a new book.
Jagger and Pallenberg played a couple in the 1970 film “Performance” and had sex in the film, Bob Spitz writes in his recently released book, “The Rolling Stones: A Biography.”
“There was a lot of very explicit footage of Mick and Anita getting really fucked up, shot by Anita with a handheld movie camera. It was steamy and edited into another adult featurette,” Spitz writes, quoting a Rolling Stones employee.
Jagger was dating actress Marianne Faithful in 1966, when they filmed a love scene.
Pallenberg later confirmed this story in her personal diary, which was quoted in the 2024 documentary Catching Fire.
Meanwhile, Faithfull had previously slept with bandmates Keith Richards and Brian Jones, but after seeing Jagger circling, she changed her mind and declared him a “dancing god,” Spitz writes in the book.
Jagger was living with a model named Chrissy Shrimpton, but when she found out about Faithfull, it is said that she attempted suicide by taking a “lethal dose of sleeping pills”.
While she was recovering in the hospital, Jagger allegedly had the locks on their shared apartment changed and canceled a shopping account he maintained for her.
Shrimpton previously said of her overdose in a 2012 Daily Mail article: “It wasn’t just about getting attention or getting help. I really wanted to die. I thought my life was over.”
Jagger proposed to Faithful in 1968, but she declined.
Around the same time, she fell into serious drug use and was using heroin while pregnant with Jagger’s child. She miscarried at 7 months old.
The following year, Spitz wrote, it was revealed that Jagger had been having a “severe affair” with Marcia Hunt, a 23-year-old actress who was in London starring in a West End production of Hair.
However, when Jagger arrived in Australia to film the film Ned Kelly in 1969, it was Faithful who accompanied him.
While staying at a hotel in Sydney, Faithfull took 150 Twinal (sleeping pills) pills and collapsed, leaving her in a coma for six days.
“It was a touch-and-go for six days,” Spitz wrote, adding that he became even more addicted to drugs after returning to the United States.
“She was caulked up to her eyes and just wired up,” Spitz wrote, noting that Jagger “didn’t want to see her in that condition,” noting that Jagger was said to have been sleeping with female driver and groupie Pamela Miller.
In 1970, the “Satisfaction” singer met and became “smitten” with a Nicaraguan woman named Bianca Pérez-Mora de Macias. It was also around this time that Hunt gave birth to her first child, a baby girl named Charis.
Jagger married Bianca in 1971, when she was four months pregnant with their daughter Jade.
The wedding was hastily put together and the guest list included “rock’n’roll royalty” including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Pete Townshend and Stephen Stills.
Bianca filed for divorce in 1978, citing infidelity.
It was around this time that Jagger began dating American model Jerry Hall, who was engaged to Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry. When they first met, Jagger invited Hall and Ferry to dinner and “talked his way back to Ferry’s apartment, where he followed Hall around the kitchen island,” Spitz wrote.
He and his willowy blonde wed in a private ceremony in Bali in 1990 and had four children, Lizzie, James, Georgia and Gabriel.
The book alleges that during their relationship, the “Miss You” singer had an affair with Carla Bruni, an Italian model who later became the first lady of France.
Bruni previously called his relationship with Jagger a “cheating.” She told “Mick” biographer Christopher Andersen, “I was still in my twenties, so I wasn’t thinking about love. There were many other women that Mick dated. I don’t think I was responsible for[his breakup with Hall].”
However, an alleged affair with Brazilian model Luciana Jimenez led to the birth of Jagger’s seventh son, Lucas, and ended his relationship with Hall, shortly after news of her pregnancy broke.
He dated stylist and designer Lauren Scott for several years, but her death by suicide in 2014 devastated Jagger and left him bereaved.
Since then, Jagger has been dating American ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick, 38, and the pair have a nine-year-old son, Deveraux.
Mr. Jagger’s representatives did not respond to multiple requests for comment from Page Six.
