Peter Rachman
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Perec "Peter" Rachman was a Polish-born landlord who operated in Notting Hill, London in the 1950s and early 1960s. He became notorious for his exploitation of his tenants, with the word "Rachmanism"
Peter Rachman
Christine Keeler
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Christine Margaret Keeler was an English model and showgirl. Her meeting at a dance club with society osteopath Stephen Ward drew her into fashionable circles. At the height of the Cold War, she becam
Peter Rachman
…him alone. Rachman did not achieve general notoriety until after his death, when the Profumo affair of 1963 hit the headlines and it emerged that both Christine Keeler and Mandy Rice-Davies had been his mistresses and that he had owned the mews house in Marylebone where Rice-Davies and Keeler had briefly stayed. As…
Keeler in 1963
Lewis Morley's photographic portrait of Keeler astride an imitation Arne Jacobsen chair, 1963
Keeler going to court in September 1963
Keeler discussing the Profumo affair on After Dark in 1988