Mick Jagger’s love life has earned almost as much ink over the years as his music, and even allegedly included sex with his bandmate Keith Richards’ girlfriend Anita Pallenberg, according to a new book.
Jagger and Pallenberg played a couple in the 1970 movie “Performance” and had sex on film, Bob Spitz writes in the recently released book “The Rolling Stones: The Biography.”
“There was a lot of very explicit footage, taken by Anita on her handheld movie camera of Mick and Anita really screwing — steamy, lusty stuff that was edited into a separate X-rated short feature,” writes Spitz, quoting a Rolling Stones employee.
Jagger had been dating actress Marianne Faithfull in 1966 when he filmed the love scene.
Pallenberg later confirmed the story in her private journals, which were quoted in the 2024 documentary “Catching Fire.”
Faithfull, meanwhile, had previously slept with his bandmates, Keith Richards and Brian Jones, but after seeing Jagger gyrate, she changed her mind, declaring him a “dancing god,” Spitz writes in the book.
Jagger had been living with a model named Chrissie Shrimpton, who, upon finding out about Faithfull, allegedly attempted suicide by swallowing “a lethal dose of sleeping pills.”
While she was recovering in the hospital, Jagger allegedly had the locks changed on their shared flat and canceled the shopping accounts he’d maintained for her, the book claims.
Shrimpton previously addressed the overdose in a 2012 Daily Mail article, “It wasn’t just attention-seeking or a cry for help. I really wanted to die. I thought my life was over.”
Jagger proposed to Faithfull in 1968, but she turned him down.
Around the same time, she was descending into serious drug use and was using heroin while pregnant with Jagger’s child. She miscarried at seven months.
The following year, it was revealed that Jagger was conducting a “torrid affair” with Marsha Hunt, a 23-year-old actress who was in London performing in the West End production of “Hair,” Spitz writes.
However, it was Faithfull who accompanied Jagger when he arrived in Australia in 1969 to shoot the movie “Ned Kelly.”
While staying in a Sydney hotel, Faithfull took 150 Tuinals (sleeping pills), collapsed, and lapsed into a coma that lasted six days.
“It was touch and go for six days,” Spitz writes, adding that when she was back in the US, she descended further into drugs.
“She was coked to the eyeballs, and just plain wired,” Spitz writes, noting that Jagger “didn’t want to see her in that condition,” and he was allegedly sleeping with his female chauffeur and a groupie named Pamela Miller.
In 1970, the “Satisfaction” crooner became “smitten” when he met a Nicaraguan woman named Bianca Pérez-Mora de Macías. It was also around this time that Hunt gave birth to his first child, a baby girl named Karis.
Jagger married Bianca, who was four months pregnant with their daughter Jade, in 1971.
The wedding was hastily put together, and the guest list was a “who’s who of rock ‘n’ roll nobility,” including Paul McCartney, Ringo Starr, Eric Clapton, Peter Frampton, Pete Townshend and Stephen Stills.
Bianca filed for divorce in 1978 on the grounds of adultery.
It was around that time that Jagger began dating American model Jerry Hall, who had been engaged to Roxy Music’s Bryan Ferry. When they first met, Jagger invited Hall and Ferry to join him for dinner, and “even talked his way back to Ferry’s flat, where he chased Hall around a kitchen island,” Spitz writes.
He and the willowy blond had an unofficial marriage ceremony in Bali in 1990 and welcomed four children, Lizzie, James, Georgia, and Gabriel.
During their relationship, the book claims the “Miss You” singer had an affair with Italian model Carla Bruni, who later became the First Lady of France.
Bruni previously called her relationship with Jagger a “fling.” She told “Mick” biographer Christopher Andersen, “I was in my twenties, so I wasn’t thinking about a relationship. There were so many other women with Mick. I don’t think I was responsible [his split from Hall].
However, his alleged affair with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez, which resulted in the birth of Jagger’s seventh child, son Lucas, spelled the end for him and Hall, who ended their relationship shortly after the pregnancy news broke.
He was in a relationship with stylist and designer L’Wren Scott for several years until her death by suicide in 2014, which devastated Jagger, leaving him bereft.
Since then, Jagger has been in a relationship with American ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick, 38. The two share a son, Deveraux, 9.
A rep for Jagger did not return Page Six’s multiple attempts for comment.
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