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13 Facts About Mandy Rice-Davies

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Marilyn Foreman, better known as Mandy Rice-Davies, was a Welsh model and showgirl best known for her association with Christine Keeler and her role in the Profumo affair, which discredited the Conservative government of British Prime Minister Harold Macmillan in 1963.

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Mandy Rice-Davies's father was a policeman before becoming a technologist for Dunlop Rubber, and her mother was a former actress.

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Mandy Rice-Davies became Rachman's mistress and was set up in the house in which he had previously kept Keeler, 1 Bryanston Mews West, Marylebone.

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Mandy Rice-Davies often visited Keeler at the house she shared with Ward at Wimpole Mews, Marylebone, and, after Keeler had moved elsewhere, lived there herself, between September and December 1962.

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Mandy Rice-Davies's trial brought attention to the girls' involvement with Ward's social set, and intimacy with many powerful people, including Viscount Astor at whose home of Cliveden Keeler met the War Minister John Profumo.

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Mandy Rice-Davies traded on the notoriety the trial brought her, comparing herself to Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton.

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The couple had one daughter together and Mandy Rice-Davies converted to Judaism.

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In 1980, with Shirley Flack, Rice-Davies wrote her autobiography, Mandy.

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Subsequently, journalist Libby Purves, who had met Rice-Davies when Mandy was published, invited her to join a female re-creation on the River Thames of Jerome K Jerome's comic novel Three Men in a Boat.

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Mandy Rice-Davies appeared in a number of television and film productions, including Absolutely Fabulous and episode 6 of the first series of Chance in a Million.

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Mandy Rice-Davies was closely involved in the development of Andrew Lloyd Webber's musical Stephen Ward about Ward's involvement in the Profumo affair, in which she was portrayed by Charlotte Blackledge.

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Mandy Rice-Davies died from lung cancer, aged 70, on 18 December 2014 in London.

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Mandy Rice-Davies is played by Bridget Fonda in Scandal, a 1989 film about the Profumo affair.