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Christine Keeler, right, in 1963 with her close friend Mandy Rice-Davies. A startling series of events brought to light Ms. Keeler's affair with John Profumo, a British politician.
Associated Press; thumbnail, Associated Press, 1963
Christine Keeler
Died on December 4, 2017 at age 75
In the early 1960s Ms. Keeler was at the center of a sensational political scandal in Britain, known as the Profumo affair, that played a role in the downfall of a Conservative government.
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