Christine Keeler, Woman at the Centre of Britain’s Biggest Sex Scandal, Dies

6th June 1963: Christine Keeler, (1942 - 2017 ), the English former model who in the company of Mandy Rice-Davies was influential in the suicide of Stephen Ward, an osteopath and the downfall of John Profumo, the Conservative cabinet minister with whom she had an affair. She is at home. Ron Gerelli/Express/Getty Images

LONDON—Christine Keeler, the model and dancer whose liaisons with a British minister and a Soviet diplomat at the height of the Cold War shocked Britain and embroiled the government in a notorious political sex scandal, has died aged 75.

Keeler’s relationship with married Minister of War John Profumo, whom she met, aged 19, while swimming naked at the grand Buckinghamshire estate of his colleague William Astor, shocked socially conservative Britain in the early 1960s.