31 Facts About Anita Pallenberg

Anita Pallenberg was a German-Italian actress, artist, and model.

Anita Pallenberg was born on 6 April 1942 in Rome, the daughter of Arnold "Arnaldo" Anita Pallenberg, a German-Italian sales agent, amateur singer, and hobbyist painter, and Paula Wiederhold, a German embassy secretary.

Anita Pallenberg became fluent in four languages at an early age.

Anita Pallenberg was expelled from school when she was 16, after which she spent time in Rome with the Dolce Vita crowd, and then went to New York City to hang out with Andy Warhol's Factory.

Anita Pallenberg then began her career as a fashion model in Paris.

Anita Pallenberg studied medicine, picture restoration and graphic design without ever completing a degree.

Anita Pallenberg appeared in over a dozen films over a 40-year span.

Anita Pallenberg played the sleeper wife of Michel Piccoli in Dillinger Is Dead, directed by Marco Ferreri.

Anita Pallenberg appeared in a documentary about the Rolling Stones, Sympathy for the Devil, directed by French filmmaker Jean-Luc Godard.

Anita Pallenberg portrayed "The Queen" in the comedy-drama Mister Lonely by Harmony Korine, and played a character named Sin in Go Go Tales.

Anita Pallenberg graduated from Central Saint Martins in London in 1994 with a fashion and textile degree.

Anita Pallenberg is known for her romantic involvement with Rolling Stones band members Brian Jones and later Keith Richards.

Anita Pallenberg first met the band in 1965 in Munich, where she was working on a modelling assignment.

Anita Pallenberg later recalled that they took a lot of acid during this time, but it caused Jones to have nightmares.

Anita Pallenberg ended her relationship with Jones in 1967 after he became violent toward her during a vacation in Morocco, where he was then hospitalised.

In Morocco, Keith Richards saw Jones assaulting Anita Pallenberg, and pulled her away and then took her back to England, where she moved in with him.

Anita Pallenberg was trying to raise their two young children but Richards was up all night and slept all day.

Richards eventually was able to detox himself from drugs and stay clean, but Anita Pallenberg continued to use them.

In 1981, after Richards and Anita Pallenberg had split up, Richards stated that he still loved Anita Pallenberg and saw her as much as he ever did, although he had already met his future wife, Patti Hansen.

However, Anita Pallenberg denied the affair, both in March 2007 when Performance was released on DVD and again during an interview in 2008.

Anita Pallenberg played an unusual role in the male-dominated world of rock music in the late 1960s, with Jagger respecting her opinion enough for tracks on Beggars Banquet to be remixed after she criticised them.

Anita Pallenberg had a strange mysterious old shaker for holy water which she used for some of her rituals.

Anita Pallenberg's ceremonies became increasingly secret, and she warned me never to interrupt her when she was working on a spell.

Anita Pallenberg spent a lot of time with singer Marianne Faithfull, Jagger's girlfriend in the late 1960s, who remained a friend of Anita Pallenberg.

Anita Pallenberg was arrested; however, the death was ruled a suicide in 1980, despite rumours that she and Cantrell had been playing a game of Russian roulette.

The police investigation stated that Anita Pallenberg was not on the same floor of the house at the time the fatal shot was fired.

Anita Pallenberg later stated that she first became pregnant in 1968, but that she was pressured to have an abortion so she could take part in the film Performance, which caused her to feel extremely resentful.

Anita Pallenberg became pregnant again with Marlon during the filming.

Anita Pallenberg raised Marlon mostly on the road with the band, teaching him to read and write.

Anita Pallenberg suffered from hepatitis C, and had two hip surgeries, including a hip replacement, which caused her to walk with a limp.

Anita Pallenberg stopped drinking in 1987, but had a relapse with alcohol in 2004 after her second hip surgery.