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Amanda Louise Smith (born 17 July 1970) is an English former pop singer and model. She became known in the mid-1980s for her underage relationship with, and subsequent marriage to, the Rolling Stones' bassist Bill Wyman, who was 33 years her senior.
Mandy Smith lived in Tottenham as a child. She met Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman when she attended the BPI Awards with her older sister Nicola in 1984 when she was 13 years old. Wyman was 47, and wrote in his 1990 autobiography: "She took my breath away ... she was a woman at thirteen." The relationship only became public two-and-a-half years later, when she reached the age of 16 (the legal age of consent in the United Kingdom), and resulted in a firestorm of publicity.
In 1986, Smith was scheduled to be interviewed on the Irish television show Saturday Live, but cancelled when broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) said she would be interviewed from a seat in the audience rather than on the set. RTÉ said she was "not important enough" and that she might "give a bad example to young teenage girls".
Smith and Wyman married on 2 June 1989 in a civil ceremony on his Suffolk estate; she was 18 and he 52. Smith had by this time developed health issues which she blamed on being on birth control pills since the age of 14, when she said her relationship with Wyman was illegally consummated; not long after the wedding, she weighed only 80 pounds (36 kg). Wyman reportedly grew impatient with her health problems and she moved out several weeks after the wedding. The marriage ended in divorce after 23 months. Smith won a settlement then worth a reported US$880,000.
In 1993, Wyman's 30-year-old son from his first marriage, Stephen, married Smith's mother, Patsy, then aged 46. As a result, Wyman—now Smith's ex-husband—became her step-grandfather. The couple separated two years later.
On 19 June 1993, Smith married footballer Pat Van Den Hauwe, but this marriage also lasted only two years. She published a best-selling autobiography, It's All Over Now, in 1993. In 2001, she was briefly engaged to fashion model Ian Mosby, with whom she had a son, Max Harrison Mosby.
Smith later moved to Manchester to run a public-relations company with her sister Nicola. In 2005, she returned to the Catholicism of her childhood after one of her former schoolteachers, a nun, "told me Jesus does not look at the mistakes I have made or the times I have ignored him". She said in 2010 that she was celibate at the age of 40 and had begun working with and counselling troubled teenagers.
In 2010, Smith publicly called for the age of consent in the United Kingdom to be raised from 16 to 18, saying: "People will find that odd coming from me. But I think I do know what I'm talking about here. You are still a child—even at 16. You can never get that part of your life, your childhood, back. I never could."
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Mandy Smith
Amanda Louise Smith (born 17 July 1970) is an English former pop singer and model. She became known in the mid-1980s for her underage relationship with, and subsequent marriage to, the Rolling Stones' bassist Bill Wyman, who was 33 years her senior.
Mandy Smith lived in Tottenham as a child. She met Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman when she attended the BPI Awards with her older sister Nicola in 1984 when she was 13 years old. Wyman was 47, and wrote in his 1990 autobiography: "She took my breath away ... she was a woman at thirteen." The relationship only became public two-and-a-half years later, when she reached the age of 16 (the legal age of consent in the United Kingdom), and resulted in a firestorm of publicity.
In 1986, Smith was scheduled to be interviewed on the Irish television show Saturday Live, but cancelled when broadcaster Raidió Teilifís Éireann (RTÉ) said she would be interviewed from a seat in the audience rather than on the set. RTÉ said she was "not important enough" and that she might "give a bad example to young teenage girls".
Smith and Wyman married on 2 June 1989 in a civil ceremony on his Suffolk estate; she was 18 and he 52. Smith had by this time developed health issues which she blamed on being on birth control pills since the age of 14, when she said her relationship with Wyman was illegally consummated; not long after the wedding, she weighed only 80 pounds (36 kg). Wyman reportedly grew impatient with her health problems and she moved out several weeks after the wedding. The marriage ended in divorce after 23 months. Smith won a settlement then worth a reported US$880,000.
In 1993, Wyman's 30-year-old son from his first marriage, Stephen, married Smith's mother, Patsy, then aged 46. As a result, Wyman—now Smith's ex-husband—became her step-grandfather. The couple separated two years later.
On 19 June 1993, Smith married footballer Pat Van Den Hauwe, but this marriage also lasted only two years. She published a best-selling autobiography, It's All Over Now, in 1993. In 2001, she was briefly engaged to fashion model Ian Mosby, with whom she had a son, Max Harrison Mosby.
Smith later moved to Manchester to run a public-relations company with her sister Nicola. In 2005, she returned to the Catholicism of her childhood after one of her former schoolteachers, a nun, "told me Jesus does not look at the mistakes I have made or the times I have ignored him". She said in 2010 that she was celibate at the age of 40 and had begun working with and counselling troubled teenagers.
In 2010, Smith publicly called for the age of consent in the United Kingdom to be raised from 16 to 18, saying: "People will find that odd coming from me. But I think I do know what I'm talking about here. You are still a child—even at 16. You can never get that part of your life, your childhood, back. I never could."