# Whatever happened to that teenager who had an affair with a politician?

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [April 23, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-that-teenager-who-had-an-affair-with-a-politician/105191 "2002-04-23T18:56:11Z")\
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**Author:** ![Bricker](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/977dab/32.png) [@Bricker](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Bricker)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 6:56pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-that-teenager-who-had-an-affair-with-a-politician/105191/1 "2002-04-23T18:56:11Z")

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You know - Christine Keeler, the teenage showgirl who had a liason with British Secretary of War John Profumo in 1963, the fallout from which caused him to resign.

What’s she doing nowadays?

- Rick

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**Author:** ![Tranquilis](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tranquilis/32/3639_2.png) [@Tranquilis](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tranquilis)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 7:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-that-teenager-who-had-an-affair-with-a-politician/105191/2 "2002-04-23T19:39:28Z")

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Well, according to [this](http://www.hclinfinet.com/2001/SEP/WEEK2/3/opinioncol9frame.jsp) site, she wrote an autobiography in 2000. I’m not able to find _that_ one, but I did find this [auto-bio](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/9990587183/qid=1019590455/sr=1-2/ref=sr_1_2/104-8995871-1511907) from 1989. Perhaps the author was referring to a reprint?

Her friend, and whistle-blower, Mandy Rice-Davies, wrote a couple of [books](http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/index=books&field-author=Rice-Davies%2C%20Mandy/104-8995871-1511907), too.

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**Author:** ![tracer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tracer/32/20578_2.png) [@tracer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tracer)\
**Post date:** [April 23, 2002, 10:38pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-that-teenager-who-had-an-affair-with-a-politician/105191/3 "2002-04-23T22:38:23Z")

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A politician had an affair?! :eek:

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**Author:** ![Wendell\_Wagner](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/8491ac/32.png) [@Wendell\_Wagner](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Wendell_Wagner)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-that-teenager-who-had-an-affair-with-a-politician/105191/4 "2002-04-24T01:24:52Z")

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Christine Keeler is still alive. She’s 60. She’s had trouble finding and keeping jobs for many years now. Profumo’s still alive too and in very good financial shape. He’s 87.

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**Author:** ![Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/50afbb/32.png) [@Duck\_Duck\_Goose](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Duck_Duck_Goose)\
**Post date:** [April 24, 2002, 2:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whatever-happened-to-that-teenager-who-had-an-affair-with-a-politician/105191/5 "2002-04-24T02:55:02Z")

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Nifty movie, [Scandal](http://us.imdb.com/Title?0098260).