Bianca Jagger

Nefertiti · December 28, 2009

Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Pérez Morena de Macías, May 2, 1945) is a Nicaraguan-born social and human rights advocate and a former actress and fashion icon. Jagger currently serves as a Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador. She was formerly married to Mick Jagger, lead singer of The Rolling Stones.

Jagger was born in Managua, Nicaragua. Her father was a successful import-export merchant and her mother a housewife.They divorced when Bianca was ten and she stayed with her mother, who had to take care of three children on a small income. She received a scholarship to study political science in France at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She has also been fascinated by Gandhi's non-violent success and the eastern philosophy at large. She traveled extensively in India.

Bianca met Mick Jagger at a party after a Rolling Stones concert in September 1970 in France. On May 12, 1971, while she was four months pregnant, the couple married in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Saint-Tropez, France, and she became his first wife. The couple had one daughter, Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger, born on October 21, 1971 in Paris, France. In May 1978 she filed for divorce on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall, the divorce was finalized in 1979.

Bianca later said "My marriage ended on my wedding day". After her divorce she kept her married name.

In addition to her extensive charitable works, Jagger had a public reputation as a jet-setter and party-goer in the 1970s and early 1980s, being closely associated in the public mind with New York City's nightclub Studio 54. She also became known particularly as a friend of pop artist Andy Warhol.

Jagger has two granddaughters from her daughter Jade, Assisi (born in 1992) and Amba (born in 1996). Jagger is a naturalized British citizen.

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