Britt Ekland with Beret

Britt Ekland became famous overnight as a result of her 1964 whirlwind romance and marriage to English actor and comedian, Peter Sellers, who proposed after seeing her photograph in the paper and then meeting in London.

 In the 1970s Ekland was one of the most photographed and talked-about celebrities in the world and in 1980 her best-selling autobiography, True Britt, was published.

She also had a much publicized romance with rock star Rod Stewart; from 1979-1981 she dated and became engaged to Girl frontman and future L.A. Guns singer Phil Lewisand in 1984 she married rock musician Slim Jim Phantom, who was almost two decades her junior. They divorced in 1992. A close friend of Sharon and Ozzy Osbourne, she is still a regular fixture on the rock'n'roll social scene.