biography
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| female
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| lived:
| (1942– )
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| biography:
| Former model and showgirl, raised in Wraysbury, Windsor and Maidenhead, S England, UK. She was involved in an affair with a Soviet naval attaché, Ivanov, and the Conservative cabinet minister, John Profumo, which led to Profumo's resignation from politics (1963), the prosecution of her patron Stephen Ward (d.1963) for living off the immoral earnings of Keeler and Mandy Rice Davies, and Ward's eventual suicide. Keeler served a prison sentence for related offences. In the late 1980s, her autobiography, and the film Scandal (1989), in which she collaborated, revived interest in the events and raised doubts about the validity of the charges made against her and Ward. |
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