# The wild life and times of Anita Pallenberg: “I’ve been called a witch, a slut, a murderer”

- URL: https://talkfuse.com/story/the-wild-life-and-times-of-anita-pallenberg-ive-been-called-a-witch-a-slut-a-murderer/
- Published: 2026-11-09T12:00:00+00:00
- Updated: 2026-11-09T12:23:45+00:00
- Original publisher: Far Out
- Original article: https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/wild-life-and-times-of-anita-pallenberg/
- Topics: Music

## Key points

- Pallenberg met Brian Jones backstage in Munich in 1965.
- She later spent more than a decade with Keith Richards.
- Her life included modelling, acting, family and addiction.

## Summary

Anita Pallenberg’s relationship with the Rolling Stones began in 1965, when she met Brian Jones backstage in Munich and spent the night comforting him after a band dispute. The article traces how she became closely connected to the group, first as Jones’s partner and later as Keith Richards’s, while challenging the idea that she was simply a rock-star “muse”.

Born in Italy during the Second World War, Pallenberg described a childhood spent fleeing the Nazis and feeling prematurely grown up. She was expelled from school at 16, worked as a model and actress, and moved among artists in Rome, New York and Paris before appearing in *Barbarella*. Her years with Richards included family life, addiction and affairs; she also acknowledged a relationship with Mick Jagger while they worked together on a film in 1968.

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