Posted: Wed 02 Aug 2006 16:52 Post subject: Marsha Hunt
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Marsha Hunt, from Wikipedia:
Marsha Hunt (born April 15, 1946) is an African American singer and novelist.
Hunt grew up in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania and studied at the University of California, Berkeley (at the time of the student riots) but in the late 1960s moved to Britain. She has lived in Ireland since 1995. She also lives in France where she owns a home.
She is the mother of Mick Jagger's first child, Karis Jagger, who was born on November 4, 1970 in the UK. Marsha Hunt is the inspiration of the Stones' hit "Brown Sugar". At the time a member of the cast in the London production of the musical Hair (playing "Dionne"), Hunt reportedly approached Jagger at a party and, rather bluntly, informed him that she wanted to have his baby. Jagger obliged her but would not enter into a long-term relationship with Hunt, who, consequently, had to bring up her daughter as a single mother (although she also wanted to make her way in show business). Jagger even denied being Karis's father and refused payments. A lengthy lawsuit followed, and a settlement making him support Hunt and their daughter was only reached in 1979.
Mick Jagger has been close to Karis for many years. She would often vacation with Jagger and his family as a teenager. He attended Karis's graduation from Yale, her wedding in 2000 and was at the hospital for the birth of her son in 2004.
Hunt was also professionally associated with musicians such as Alexis Korner, John Mayall, Elton John, and Marc Bolan.
In her later years Hunt has taken to writing. After her 1986 autobiography, Real Life: The Story of a Survivor, she published her first novel, Joy, in 1990, and her second novel, Free, in 1992. In late 2004, she was diagnosed with breast cancer, and had surgery to remove her right breast and her lymph nodes. She has written about it in a memoir, Undefeated, and has been the subject of a documentary, Beating Breast Cancer on ITV, broadcast on 26 September 2005.
First of all, Marsha wrote in her autobiography that she's not black, but melangian, a term she came up in describing herself as having a little bit of everything, which she is. She's related to prominent members of the Memphis mulatto elite. The media also forgot to state that she's distantly related to the former NAACP president Benjamin Hooks, also a member of the old Memphis elite. The media tends to focus her as being Mick Jagger's former girlfriend as well as being the mother of Karis, Mick's first child.
Following the birth of their daughter Karis, now 34, Marsha fought a paternity battle with Mick. It wasn't until nine years later that he accepted Karis as his own - when she got married five years ago, Mick was there, crying.
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