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The girl who reads star is you!

October 1969 at The Stones’ mansion

Images of a naked young woman sitting on the ground under the gaze of five clothed, older men may seem unsettling. But in the Sixties, it simply made the Stones look even cooler. As for the 18-year-old girl, peering provocatively at the camera in some shots and with her back turned in others, she was identified only as ‘Angel’. Many explanations emerged as to who she was and why she was there. Her real name is Leslie ans she revealed what really happened that day with the Stones.

She had moved to California from New York state earlier in 1969 to work as a nanny. Finding herself on the street, she was offered a roof over her head at the Stones’ mansion, which was owned by legendary singer Stephen Stills.

On the morning of the photo-shoot, she recalls getting up early to prepare breakfast, then going for a swim. She jumped in naked, she says, not for any saucy reason but because ‘that’s what people did in those days’. As she flitted past, naked, Jagger suggested she might want to join them. She says Jagger told her: ‘It would be nice if you would be in this picture. We’re just gonna use it for our memories of our tour. It’s just personal.’ A week later the photos were published all over the world — from the music magazine Rolling Stone to the British Press. She says she didn’t even recognise the band when she first arrived at the house, adding mischievously: ‘If they’d been the Beatles, I might have known who they were.’

However, she got to know Jagger quickly and was soon having an affair with him. How did they used to put it in the olden days? We had a scene,’ she says. ‘We had a lot of fun. We both had a similar sense of humour.’

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