28 Facts About Bianca Jagger

Bianca Jagger was born on Blanca Perez-Mora Macias; 2 May 1945 and is a Nicaraguan social activist, human rights advocate, and a former actress.

Bianca Jagger was married to Mick Jagger, lead singer of the Rolling Stones, from 1971 until 1978.

Bianca Jagger's father was a successful import-export merchant and her mother a housewife.

Bianca Jagger received a scholarship to study political science in France at the Paris Institute of Political Studies.

Bianca Jagger was influenced by Gandhi's non-violent success and Eastern philosophy at large.

In May 1978, Bianca Jagger filed for divorce on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall.

Bianca Jagger became known particularly as a friend of pop artist Andy Warhol.

Bianca Jagger has dual nationality, as a naturalised British citizen and citizen of Nicaragua.

Bianca Jagger became a great-grandmother in 2014 through her granddaughter Assisi.

Bianca Jagger caused a minor controversy in May 2012 when she took flash photographs during a performance of Philip Glass's Einstein on the Beach at the Barbican in London.

In 1981, Bianca Jagger was part of a US congressional delegation stationed at a UN refugee camp in Honduras.

In subsequent interviews, Bianca Jagger has recounted this incident as "a turning point in my life".

Bianca Jagger founded the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation, which she chairs.

Bianca Jagger returned to Nicaragua to look for her parents after the 1972 Nicaragua earthquake, which destroyed Managua, the capital, leaving a toll of more than 10,000 deaths and tens of thousands homeless.

In early 1979, Bianca Jagger visited Nicaragua with an International Red Cross delegation and was shocked by the brutality and oppression that the Somoza regime carried out there.

Bianca Jagger has opposed the death penalty and defended the rights of women and of indigenous peoples in Latin America, notably the Yanomami tribe in Brazil against the invasion of gold miners.

Bianca Jagger spoke up for victims of the conflicts in Bosnia and Serbia.

Bianca Jagger's writings were published in several newspapers.

Bianca Jagger was a member of the Twentieth Century Task Force to Apprehend War Criminals, and a trustee of the Amazon Charitable Trust.

Bianca Jagger gave a reading at the start of the memorial service in London's Westminster Cathedral, which was timed to coincide with the funeral in Brazil of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot eight times on a tube-train after being mistaken for a suicide bomber in London.

In March 2002, Bianca Jagger travelled to Afghanistan with a delegation of fourteen women, organised by Global Exchange to support Afghan women's projects.

On 16 December 2003, Bianca Jagger was nominated Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador.

On 7 July 2007, Bianca Jagger presented at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg.

In January 2009, Bianca Jagger addressed some 12,000 people who rallied in Trafalgar Square in protest against an Israeli offensive in the Gaza several days earlier.

Bianca Jagger is a "messenger", more accurately termed ambassador, for the environmental organization 350.

Bianca Jagger has served as IUCN's Global Ambassador for the Bonn Challenge, a global effort to restore 150 million hectares of the world's degraded and deforested lands by 2020.

In June 2012, along with the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Airbus, Bianca Jagger launched an online campaign called the Plant a Pledge initiative, which aims to restore 150 million hectares of forest around the world by 2020.

On 21 November 2013, Bianca Jagger delivered the prestigious 12th annual Longford Lecture titled "Ending Violence Against Women and Girls, and the Culture of Impunity: achieving the missing Millennium Development Goal target", chaired by Jon Snow.