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  • JAGGER’S LOVE LETTERS TO MARSHA HUNT SELL FOR £187,250 AT SOTHEBY’S

    Justin de Villeneuve Portrait of Marsha Hunt. (Click on image to enlarge).

    Letter from Jagger in Australia.

    A collection of 10 articulate love letters written by Mick Jagger to the beautiful black American singer and inspiration for Brown Sugar Marsha Hunt made £187,250 at Sotheby’s in London today. They had been estimated at up to £100,000 and were purchased by a private collector bidding by telephone.

    Mick Jagger’s signature.

    They were written in the summer of 1969 while Jagger was in Australia filming Ned Kelly and their relationship was a closely-guarded secret. Hunt was the face of the London musical Hair. After the sale Marsha Hunt commented: “The passage of time has given these letters a place in our cultural history. 1969 saw the ebbing of a crucial, revolutionary era, highly influenced by such artists as The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, James Brown and Bob Dylan. Their inner thoughts should not be the property of only their families, but the public at large, to reveal who these influential artists were – not as commercial images, but their private selves.”

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