Keeler, Christine (1942–)

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Keeler, Christine (1942–)

British call girl. Born in Uxbridge, Middlesex, England, Feb 2, 1942; raised in Wraysbury; m. James Levermore (div.); remarried; children: (1st m.) son Jimmy.

Was the "tainted woman" involved in the notorious "Profumo Affair," the scandal that brought England's Tory Party to the brink of disaster (1963).

See also autobiography, The Truth at Last (2001); and Women in World History.

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