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Bianca Jagger
Jagger at the Dropping Knowledge project's Table of Free Voices in Berlin, September 2006
Born
Bianca Perez Morena De Macias
OccupationHuman Rights Advocate
SpouseMick Jagger (1971–1980)(1 Child)

Bianca Jagger (born Bianca Perez Morena De Macias, May 2 1950)[2] is a Nicaraguan social and human rights advocate, a Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador, Chair of the World Future Council, a former actress and a fashion icon of the 1970s. She was formerly married to Mick Jagger.

Biography

Jagger was born in Managua, Nicaragua. Her father was a businessman and her mother a housewife. They divorced when Bianca was ten and she stayed with her mother, who had to take care of three children on a small income. She received a scholarship to study political science in France. Bianca studied political science at the Paris Institute of Political Studies. She has also been fascinated by Gandhi's non-violent success and the eastern philosophy at large. She traveled extensively in India.[3]

Bianca met Mick Jagger at a party after a Rolling Stones concert in September 1970 in France.[4] On May 12, 1971, while she was four months pregnant, the couple married in a Roman Catholic ceremony in Saint-Tropez, France, and she became his first wife. The couple had one daughter, Jade Sheena Jezebel Jagger, born on October 21, 1971 in Paris, France. In May 1978 she filed for divorce on the grounds of his adultery with model Jerry Hall, the divorce was finalized in 1980.[5][6][7] Bianca later said "My marriage ended on my wedding day".[8] After her divorce she kept her married name.[9]

In addition to her extensive charitable works, Jagger had a public reputation as a jet-setter and party-goer in the 1970s and early 1980s, being closely associated in the public mind with New York City's nightclub Studio 54. She also became known particularly as a friend of pop artist Andy Warhol. Jagger was also romantically linked to actor Ryan O'Neal and politicians Robert Torricelli and Christopher Dodd.

Jagger has two granddaughters from her daughter Jade, Assisi (born in 1992) and Amba (born in 1996). Jagger is a naturalized British citizen.

Activism

Bianca is the Chair of the Bianca Jagger Human Rights Foundation.

In 1972 she returned to Nicaragua to look for her parents after a devastating earthquake, which destroyed Managua, the capital, leaving a toll of more than 10,000 deaths and tens of thousands homeless.

In early 1979, Jagger visited Nicaragua with an International Red Cross delegation and was shocked by the brutality and oppression that the Somoza regime carried out there. This persuaded her to commit herself to the issues of justice and human rights.

In the 1980s, she worked to oppose US government intervention in Nicaragua after the Sandinista revolution. She has also opposed the death penalty and defended the rights of women and of indigenous peoples in Latin America, notably the Yanomami tribe in Brazil against the invasion of gold miners. She spoke up for victims of the conflicts in Bosnia and Serbia. Her writings were published in several newspapers (including the New York Times and the Sunday Express). From the late 1970s she collaborated with many humanitarian organizations including:

She is also a member of the Twentieth Century Task Force to Apprehend War Criminals. She gave a reading at the start of the memorial service in London's Westminster Cathedral, which was timed to coincide with the funeral in Brazil of Brazilian Jean Charles de Menezes, who was shot eight times on a tube-train after being mistaken for a suicide bomber in London. In March 2007 she became involved with Sarah Teather and the campaign to close Guantanamo Bay.

In March 2002, Ms Jagger travelled to Afghanistan with a delegation of fourteen women, organised by Global Exchange to support afghan women’s projects.

On December 16, 2003 Jagger was nominated Council of Europe Goodwill Ambassador.[10]

On July 7, 2007, Jagger presented at the German leg of Live Earth in Hamburg.

On May 12, 2007 she was elected Chair of the World Future Council.

In July, 2008 she was a signatory to a petition to the Catholic bishops of England and Wales to allow the wider celebration of the traditional Latin Mass.[11]

In January, 2009 Jagger addressed a crowd of up to 60,000 people at a march and rally in Trafalgar Square following a week of protests outside the Israeli Embassy in Kensington.[12]

Awards

For her international work on behalf of humanitarian causes, Jagger has earned numerous awards, including:

  • 1983 Honorary Doctorate of Humanities degree from Stone Hill College in Massachusetts
  • 1994 United Nations Earth Day award
  • 1996 Hispanic Federation of New York City’s Humanitarian Award
  • 1996 Woman of the Year Title from the Boys Town of Italy
  • 1996 Abolitionist of the Year Award from the National Coalition to Abolish the Death Penalty
  • 1997 Green Globe award from the Rain Forest Alliance
  • 1997 Amnesty International USA Media Spotlight Award for Leadership
  • 1997 Inducted to the Hall of Fame in Miami Children’s Hospital Foundation
  • 1998 American Civil Liberties Union Award
  • 2000 Champion of Justice Award
  • 2003 International Award from International Services
  • 2004 World Achievement Award from Mikhail Gorbachev
  • 2004 Right Livelihood Award
  • 2006 World Citizenship Award from The Nuclear Age Peace Foundation
  • 2006 Office of the Americas Peace and Justice Award
  • 2008 Honorary Doctorate of Human Rights degree from Simmons College in Massachusetts

Films And TV

Bianca also appeared in several movies and tv shows[13]

References

  1. ^ http://www.rightlivelihood.org/bianca-jagger.html
  2. ^ http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20117870,00.html
  3. ^ http://www.netglimse.com/celebs/pages/bianca_jagger/index.shtml
  4. ^ Limited Engagement | Bianca Jagger | Encore | News | Entertainment Weekly
  5. ^ http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-459659/Mick-Jaggers-secret-divorce.html
  6. ^ http://www.divorceunion.com/divorce.html
  7. ^ http://www.ew.com/ew/article/0,,281294,00.html
  8. ^ http://m.nypost.com/ms/p/nyp/nyp/view.m?id=23203&storyid=154123
  9. ^ http://www.mrpopculture.com/files/html/feb01-1979/
  10. ^ ""Goodwill Ambassadors" spreading the Council's message". Council of Europe.
  11. ^ "Leading Catholics petition for Latin Mass".
  12. ^ Tracy McVeigh (2009-01-04). "Thousands join march to protest against Israeli action". The Observer. Retrieved 2009-02-19. {{cite news}}: Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0415588/

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