Faithfull was born in London’s Hampstead. Simon Faithfull is an artist and her half-brother. Major Robert Glynn Faithfull, her father, was a professor of Italian literature at Bedford College of the University of London and a British intelligence officer.
Eva, the mother of Faithfull, was the daughter of Ritter von Sacher-Masoch, an Austro-Hungarian nobility. Eva decided to go by the name Eva von Sacher-Masoch, Baroness Erisso.
Early in her career, Eva danced for the Max Reinhardt Company and appeared in plays by the German playwrights Bertolt Brecht and Kurt Weill.
She is well-known for her highly publicized 1960s romance with musician, songwriter, actor, and film producer Mick Jagger, as well as for the 1964 hit song “As Tears Go By” written by the Rolling Stones and her prog-rock-influenced 1979 album Broken English.
Who is Marianne Faithfull’s husband Ben Brierly?
Together with her former boyfriend Ben Brierly of the punk band the Vibrators, Faithfull moved into a Chelsea squat without power or hot water. Later, she and Henrietta Moraes lived together in apartments in Chelsea and Regent’s Park.
Ben Brierly and Marianne Faithfull were wed for six years. After meeting in 1975, they dated for four years before being married on July 8, 1979. They got divorced in 1986, six years later.
