Mick Jagger's "Moving" Tribute to Girlfriend L'Wren Scott Rings False

L'Wren Scott & Mick Jagger

The suicide of fashion designer, L'Wren Scott, is by any measure heartbreaking and tragic.  Mick Jagger posted a tribute that many characterized as "touching" to this woman who had been his steady companion for thirteen years. But what "moved" him to write this eulogy even more than his girlfriend's sudden death might be something far more egotistic --guilt and  a fast sinking reputation.   New public disclosures by friends, colleagues and  L'Wren's former maid paint a picture of mental cruelty so shameful that it might very well have contributed to pushing her over the psychic edge (click here).

The relationship between L'Wren and Jagger had deteriorated to the point where a gossip website http://www.crazydaysandnights.net actually foreshadowed L'Wren's death in a column published the week before she committed suicide.   Be forewarned. This column really is creepy:

“She is not dead, or at least don’t think she is dead. I think people would say something if she died although she has disappeared from the face of the earth and no one is saying much of anything right now. She is a C list celebrity but is A list in her own little corner of the celebrity world.*Her boyfriend is a permanent A-lister and has been cheating on her almost everyday for the past month which also adds fuel to the fire. They used to be inseparable. Now they are not only separated but he is having his way with groupies and celebrities and other people taller than him.*There are reports she had a breakdown because he was cheating on her. She canceled a huge event* she was working on and has retreated into a hospital to get help although some people say she is hiding out at her home with medical professionals. You would think people would be talking by now but just the whispers getting louder. I think when her boyfriend gets back home the whispering will be much louder.”

Mick Jagger had somehow managed to have seven children by four different women.  L'Wren had set up a nursery in her apartment, hoping that he would propose.  Having been raised in a Mormon family she intended to wait for the wedding before getting pregnant with child number eight.  However in 2012, Jagger told a London magazine that he had no intention of marrying L'Wren. He said:

 'To be honest I don’t think much of marriage.''I’m not saying people shouldn’t do it but it’s not for me. And not for quite a few others it would appear.'

 Their relationship slid downhill from there.  Her design business began to sink under a seven million dollar debt, which forced her to lay off staff, and cancel that season's London show. Whether she asked Jagger for a loan and was turned down, we will probably never know. But what can be said for sure was that he dumped her in the midst of this crisis.  She took her own life several weeks later.

The way superstars treat the women in their lives has until now been of little consequence to an adoring public.  But that state of affairs might have lulled Jagger into believing that nothing short of committing murder had any effect on the way the public perceived him.  Well actually, having one's girlfriend commit suicide amidst rumors of one being an all-around  misogynistic jerk will in truth push people to take notice.  But why do I feel confident in characterizing Jagger this way.  I am a historian and have decided to present below a snippet of the famous musician's history with women. To begin with,  L'Wren was not the only of Jagger's girlfriends to attempt suicide. She was merely the first to succeed. According to an article in Celebrities Online: 

Jagger’s first serious girlfriend was Chrissie Shrimpton, who started dating him in 1963. Shrimpton stated that she knew of three occasions where Jagger cheated on her, but commented ”there must have been many more times.” In 1966 Jagger started seeing the then budding singer Marianne Faithfull, behind Shrimpton’s back. As he grew more distant from Shrimpton, he canceled their planned trip to Jamaica. After this Shrimpton took an overdose of sleeping pills, but Jagger found her in time. While recuperating in a clinic she found out about Jagger and Faithfull in the newspapers.

Marianne Faithfull’s courtship with Jagger was just as bumpy. In 1967, police found her clad only in a fur rug as they busted Jagger and fellow band member Keith Richards for drug possession. In 1967 she had enough with Jagger and life, swallowing 50 sleeping tablets and washed them down with hot chocolate. Again Jagger got to her in time, but this was the start of a downward spiral for Faithfull and the end of their relationship.
Jagger’s first marriage to Bianca Perez-Mora Macias, ended for all intents and purposes after a year, but they only divorced years later; staying together for their daughter. He replaced Bianca with supermodel Jerry Hall, who he married and had a couple of kids with. But his infidelity, which resulted in a son, led to them annulling the marriage.

No man is so famous in my book that the way he treats women will hover beyond the reach of my assessing whether his name is really written among the constellations.