Profumo affair: model and showgirl Christine Keeler dies

Christine Keeler outside court during the 1963 trial

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last updated 6 December 2017

Christine Keeler, the model and showgirl at the center of the 1960s Profumo sex-and-spy scandal, has died at the age of 75 from a lung disease.

Born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, Keeler was a topless dancer at Murray’s Cabaret Club in London’s Soho when she met Stephen Ward, an osteopath, artist and “man about town”, The Guardian says. He introduced her to aristocrats, VIPs - and John Profumo, then 46 and the secretary of state for war.