Profumo affair model Christine Keeler has died.

[edbermac]

Christine Keeler, the model embroiled in the 1963 Profumo affair, has died aged 75, her son has said.

Seymour Platt said Ms Keeler had been ill for several months with chronic obstructive pulmonary disease. He told the BBC: "She was always a fighter, but sadly lost the final fight against a terrible lung disease."

She became famous for her part in the scandal, which shook Harold Macmillan's government, but her son said that fame came "at a huge personal price".

At the height of the Cold War, the-then teenager claimed she had an affair with Conservative cabinet minister John Profumo.

She also claimed to be in a relationship with a Russian diplomat - Eugene Ivanov, an assistant naval attaché at the Soviet Embassy - at the same time.

Mr Profumo was forced to resign after lying about the affair to Parliament and the scandal is considered to have contributed to the fall of the Macmillan government.

http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-42245839

1989 movie called Scandal with John Hurt and Joanne Whalley about this.

[hlthe2b]

1. movie included the great late Dusty Springfield/Petshop Boys score: 'Nothing has been Proved'

I still miss Dusty....

[Chasstev365]

2. Scandal is a good movie about the affair!

[mahatmakanejeeves]

3. Oh, boy. There's a name from the past.

It brings back memories of Mad magazine and Alfred E. Neuman.

[DavidDvorkin]

4. At the time, someone said that Profumo

was the world's worst carpenter, because one loose screw, and the whole cabinet fell apart.