Christine Keeler, Key Figure In UK's 1960s Profumo Scandal, Dies At 75

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Wednesday, 6 December 2017 ()
Christine Keeler, Key Figure In UK's 1960s Profumo Scandal, Dies At 75Christine Keeler, the model and showgirl at the center of the 1960s sex and spying scandal involving British secretary for war John Profumo that led to the resignation of Prime Minister Harold Macmillan, has died at the age of 75, The Guardian reported. Keeler’s simultaneous sexual liaisons in July 1961 with Profumo and the Soviet attaché Yevgeny Ivanov, lay at the heart of the scandal. A photograph taken at the time, of a young, alluring, but vulnerable Keeler, posing naked on a back-to-front Arne Jacobsen chair, has become one of the enduring symbols of the era. She spent much of the rest of her life after 1963 bemoaning – in countless interviews and several volumes of autobiography, each...
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