Jerry's ex-wives club: They should be sworn enemies but instead Hall's forged an extraordinary alliance with Mick's other exes and their united message is we're far better off without you.
Mick Jagger’s First Wives Club gathered last week to celebrate Jerry Hall’s new beginning with her billionaire groom, media mogul Rupert Murdoch. And what an extraordinary gathering of the sisterhood it was.
The first Mrs Jagger, Bianca, now a rather forbidding 70-year-old human rights campaigner, arrived at the event wearing a crow-black hat, top-to-toe designer clothes and a face like thunder. She had been chauffeured to the St Bride’s ceremony in Fleet Street from her home in Kensington.
Former girlfriend Marsha Hunt, now 69, who bore Jagger his first child, Karis, was also there, having travelled from her home in the north of France for the occasion. She wore cropped hair, a sunshine yellow jacket and a ready smile.
During the nuptials, Marsha gave a moving, short speech about former supermodel Jerry, 59, paying tribute to her sterling qualities as a mother and valued friend.
At many times, her skills as a diplomat and negotiator have been required to broker peace in the family.
When Jerry arrived on the scene in 1976, having met Mick at a dinner party, he was not only married to Bianca, but was also facing a paternity suit from Marsha, who was trying to get Mick to acknowledge that he was the father of their daughter, Karis, born in 1970.
Marsha, the daughter of a Philadelphia psychiatrist, had been pursued by Mick when she appeared in the musical Hair. ‘It wasn’t based on a simple love affair,’ Marsha has said of her relationship with Jagger. ‘It was based on two people having mutual admiration for each other.’
Nonetheless, in the early stages of pregnancy she moved out of his flat on the Chelsea Embankment on discovering that he was still romancing other women.
It took Marsha, who moved to Los Angeles with her daughter, nine years to get Jagger to admit his paternity after a U.S. court ruled he was the girl’s father and ordered him to pay $1,500-a-month child support.
When, four years later, Marsha decided to send the 12-year-old Karis to Bedales boarding school in Hampshire, Jagger re-entered the picture — and with Jerry’s blessing he and Karis started to spend time together in London at the weekends.
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