How Keith Richards Stole Anita Pallenberg From Brian Jones and What She Left Behind

The story starts in Morocco, 1967. Brian Jones brought his girlfriend Anita Pallenberg along for a vacation with Keith Richards. By the end of the trip, she was with Keith. The band never fully recovered from that fracture — Jones spiraled, was fired from the Stones, and died within two years. Keith and Anita stayed together for more than a decade, had three children, and built a relationship that was equal parts love, chaos, and creative fuel.

Anita didn’t co-write Stones songs on paper, but she was the muse behind much of Keith’s early ’70s work. Her presence coiled through Sticky Fingers and *