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Mick Jagger took out an injunction stopping his first serious girlfriend, former model Chrissie Shrimpton, from publishing a trove of his old love letters, she has revealed.

Chrissie Shrimpton, 67, sister of Sixties fashion icon Jean, said she was so “disgusted” when she heard of the legal action, she sent most of them back.

But in what the Rolling Stone may read as a veiled threat, Chrissie Shrimpton let slip she still owns some of the missives Mick Jagger, 69, wrote as an up-and-coming musician.

Chrissie Shrimpton said: “Many years ago it came to the notice of a journalist that I had hundreds of love letters from Mick Jagger. She tried to persuade me to publish them, which I did not want to do, as it happens.

“Mick Jagger got wind of this and to my amazement I heard on the Radio 4 news that I was involved in a court case regarding this issue.

“Mick Jagger had put up an injunction preventing their publication on the grounds that while I owned the paper they were written on, he owned the words. I was not even informed of this by his legal party.”

She added: “I was so disgusted I sent most of the letters back to him. However, a few have turned up over the years; my fifth grandchild opened an old book at my house recently and one fell out.”

Mick Jagger took out an injunction stopping his first serious girlfriend, former model Chrissie Shrimpton, from publishing a trove of his old love letters

Mick Jagger took out an injunction stopping his first serious girlfriend, former model Chrissie Shrimpton, from publishing a trove of his old love letters

The revelation came in a letter Chrissie Shrimpton wrote to a national newspaper, in response to the news that another of Sir Mick Jagger’s former girlfriends plans to auction a series of his handwritten love letters next month.

American-born singer Marsha Hunt, 66, who inspired the Rolling Stones’ 1971 hit Brown Sugar, will sell ten letters he wrote her from Australia, while he was dating pop star Marianne Faithfull.

Chrissie Shrimpton added: “I wonder if he will stop Marsha from publishing her letters to him.”

It is not the only time Mick Jagger has sought the help of lawyers to suppress his old love letters. In 1992, his solicitors warned the Mail on Sunday not to publish notes he wrote to schoolgirl Cleo Sylvestre while he was dating Chrissie Shrimpton.

Now married with two daughters, Chrissie Shrimpton dated Mick Jagger from 1963 to 1966. They met when he was a 19-year-old student at the London School of Economics and she was a secretary.

In a recent interview, Chrissie Shrimpton said her friends thought the musician was too ugly to be her boyfriend. She said: “I used to hear them whispering, <<Poor Chrissie, her boyfriend’s so ugly>>.

“Mick would come and meet me for lunch. One day, as we walked through the market, a stall-holder threw a cabbage at his head and shouted <<You ugly f*****>>.”

But once Mick Jagger found a legion of adoring fans he began to cheat on Chrissie Shrimpton, before leaving her for Marianne Faithfull in 1966. Shortly before they split, Chrissie Shrimpton tried to commit suicide by taking an overdose of sleeping pills.

She said later: “I remember thinking <<He doesn’t want me, and I can’t live without him>>. I really wanted to die.”

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Mick Jagger’s handwritten love letters to his former lover Marsha Hunt will go on the auction in London next month.

Marsha Hunt is an American-born singer who was the inspiration for Rolling Stones’ 1971 classic Brown Sugar and bore Mick Jagger’s first child, Karis.

Sotheby’s said Saturday that Marsha Hunt has tasked the auction house with selling 10 letters written from the set of Tony Richardson’s film Ned Kelly starring Mick Jagger, which was shooting in Australia.

Marsha Hunt, 66, said she decided to put the private correspondence under the hammer because she is “broke” and unable to pay her bills or make repairs to her home, according to ABC News.

“Someone, I hope, will buy those letters, as our generation is dying,” she said.

“And with us will go the reality of who we were and what life was.”

The singer, who lives in France, went on to say that the letters chronicling their “delicate love affair” that was kept secret until 1972 touch on subjects such as the first moon landing and John Lennon and Yoko Ono.

“When a serious historian finally examines how and why Britain’s boy bands affected international culture and politics, this well-preserved collection of Mick Jagger’s hand written letters will be a revelation,” Marsha Hunt said in a statement distributed by the auction house.

Marsha Hunt is an American-born singer who was the inspiration for Rolling Stones' 1971 classic Brown Sugar and bore Mick Jagger's first child, Karis

Marsha Hunt is an American-born singer who was the inspiration for Rolling Stones’ 1971 classic Brown Sugar and bore Mick Jagger’s first child, Karis

When asked by reporters if Mick Jagger agreed to having his letters sold off, Marsha Hunt said she didn’t think so, but added that the correspondence did not belong to him.

“This is Mick in his own words…This is part of English history, it is part of rock history, part of cultural history and it corrects all the misinformation,” she said, according to Rolling Stone.

Sotheby’s books specialist Gabriel Heaton said the letters sent in the summer of 1969 show a “poetic and self-aware” 25-year-old Mick Jagger, who wrote about the works of Emily Dickinson and meeting the author Christopher Isherwood.

In his letters, the rock star also touches upon the unraveling of his relationship with singer Marianne Faithful, whom he was also dating at the time, and the death of Rolling Stones’ guitarist Brian Jones.

“They provide a rare glimpse of Jagger that is very different from his public persona: passionate but self-contained, lyrical but with a strong sense of irony,” Gabriel Heaton said.

Sotheby’s said the collection, which includes song lyrics and a Rolling Stones playlist, is expected to fetch between $111,300 and $159,000 and will go under the hammer on December 12.

 

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