Anita Pallenberg Has Died

Anita Pallenberg  - the Italian-German actress and model, Rolling Stones muse, Sixties style pin-up and It girl - has died aged 73. The cause of death is unknown at this stage.

The news was announced by Pallenberg's close friend Stella Schnabel, who paid tribute to the star on her Instagram account. "I have never met a woman quite like you Anita," Schnabel wrote, reports Rolling Stone magazine. "I don't think there is anybody in this universe like you. No one has ever understood me so well. You showed me about life and myself and how to grow and become and exist with it all... Thank you for the most important lessons – because they are ever changing and definitive. Like you. We are all singing for you, how you liked it."

Pallenberg was well known for her inimitable sense of style, which captured the energy and aesthetic of the rock'n'roll scene of the Sixties and Seventies, as well as her high-profile relationships with Keith Richards and Brian Jones. She had three children with Richards during their 12-year partnership, Marlon, Angela and Tara, although Tara sadly passed away at 10 weeks old.

Tributes have already begun on social media for the model, who maintained her ties to the fashion industry throughout her life, gaining a fashion design degree from Central Saint Martins in the Nineties and remaining a popular figure on the London Fashion Week scene - just last September she walked in the Pam Hogg show.

Designer Cozette McCreary was one of many well-known names to fondly remember Pallenberg in an Instagram post this morning, posting a recent picture of the late star with the caption: "Beaming beauty busy making drinks and chatting up my boyfriend, letting him take this picture in her kitchen as we snapped Bella's look book. We'd chat about archeology and gardening. Always digging: sites, allotments, scenes."