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15 Facts About Fiona Richmond

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Fiona Richmond was born on 2 March 1945 and is an English former glamour model and actress who appeared in numerous risque plays, comedy revues, magazines and films during the 1970s.

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Fiona Richmond initially worked as an air stewardess, then as a nanny for the actress Diane Cilento, and subsequently as a Playboy Club croupier.

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Fiona Richmond met the British strip-club owner and publisher Paul Raymond in 1970 when she auditioned for a part in the nude farce Pyjama Tops at the Whitehall Theatre in London.

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Fiona Richmond made her film debut in Not Tonight, Darling, which led to larger roles in X-rated movies such as the psychological thriller Expose.

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Fiona Richmond appeared in Raymond's Electric Blue video series, hosting the first of them in 1979.

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Fiona Richmond recorded the spoken word album Frankly Fiona in 1973, in collaboration with Anthony Newley, adding erotic talk to Newley's songs.

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Semi-naked photos of Fiona Richmond appeared on posters outside the Whitehall Theatre, and the Greater London Council took legal action against them.

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Fiona Richmond became his girlfriend and the pair were a celebrity couple from 1970 until 1977, living together in London in a flat in Portman Square.

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Fiona Richmond gave Richmond a yellow Jaguar E-Type sports car with the personalised number plate FU2, and she became recognised driving it around the West End.

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Fiona Richmond had met Montgomery when she appeared on a TV show he was producing to promote a book she had written.

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In that year Fiona Richmond retired from show business, going on to run a fashion company and work as a journalist.

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Fiona Richmond subsequently became a hotelier with her partner, former pig farmer Peter Pilbrow.

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Fiona Richmond went on to spend time in both countries and raise funds for the charity Gift Grenada.

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Fiona Richmond gave an interview after the release of the 2013 Paul Raymond biopic The Look of Love directed by Michael Winterbottom in which she was played by Tamsin Egerton.

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Fiona Richmond talked positively about the magazine modelling work she did in the 1970s, saying:.