The Rolling Stones' song "As Tears Go By" was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards--their first collaboration--for her.
John Dunbar got custody of their son Nicholas after the divorce.
Attended a Roman Catholic girls school in her youth.
Biography/bibliography in: "Contemporary Authors". New Revision Series, vol. 134, pages 137-138. Farmington Hills, MI: Thomson Gale, 2005.
Has made a full recovery from breast cancer after undergoing surgery [November 6, 2006].
Her mother was a baroness, her father was an officer in British Intelligence.
In 1967 she was among those arrested in a drug raid by British police at the residence of Keith Richards.
Lives in Paris with her manager François Ravard.
Now a grandmother of two living in Ireland.
Poet Allen Ginsberg, an old friend, named her "Professor of Poetics, Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poets."
Ranked #25 on VH1's 100 Greatest Women of Rock N Roll
Reportedly working on a follow-up to her 1994 autobiography, "Faithfull", which is being turned into a screenplay.
September 2006 - According to her website, Marianne is being treated for breast cancer. The prognosis was stated to be excellent.
Some of the lyrics to The Rolling Stones' song "Wild Horses" were allegedly about her break-up with Mick Jagger.
The first time the F-word was spoken in a movie was by her in I'll Never Forget What's'isname (1967).
Through her mother, Marianne is a direct descendant of Count Leopold von Sacher-Masoch, the infamous 19th century Austrian nobleman whose classic erotic novel, "Venus in Furs", spawned the word "masochism".
Was best friends with Anita Pallenberg when they both dated The Rolling Stones band members ( Faithfull dated Mick Jagger and Pallenberg dated Brian Jones).