Princess zu Loewenstein: Weird Rock Tales

By VMZ Staff on May 20, 2024

How late pop-hating Bavarian prince became 'Rupie the Groupie' and made penniless Rolling Stones billions in tax exile (while also keeping them out of jail for drugs) He died on20 May 2014, age 80.

Her late husband Prince Rupert was for financial adviser to the Rolling Stones, she toured with the band and seen with Jagger for decades.

His epitaph should read ‘It’s only rock ’n’ roll . . . but I loathe it’.

Yet it was this unlikely figure — a portly, pop-hating Bavarian nobleman — who saved the Rolling Stones from extinction.

Power behind the Stones: Prince Rupert Loewenstein with Mick Jagger discussing business

Prince Rupert Loewenstein, who has just died aged 80, was the man who kept the world’s most famous rock band from jail and bankruptcy, using his expertise in tax-avoidance, according to Dailymail

Keith Richards was more cautious.

‘He didn’t like rock and roll. He thought "composing" was something done with a pen and paper, like Mozart,’ said the Stones’ guitarist.

‘He’d never even heard of Mick Jagger when he met him.’

With the name Her Serene Highness Princess Josephine zu Loewenstein-Wertheim-Freudenberg, Countess of Loewenstein-Scharffeneck, perhaps it’s no surprise that she has lived life to the absolute full.By Jane Fryer for the Daily Mail

When Jerry Hall got her hands on Mick Jagger, he became anti-drugs. ‘Apparently she told him it was bad for his looks. That was enough to make him stop,’ says Josephine

Princess

Countess of Loewenstein-Scharffeneck seen above with Mick Jagger. For decades, her late husband Prince Rupert - 'Rupie the Groupie' - was financial adviser to the Rolling Stones. . Princess Margaret once cleaned her loo, for goodness sake.

‘I was embarrassed because it was a bit of a mess, but she cleaned it well, very efficiently,’ she says. ‘I was quite touched, but she just wanted to be included — she liked seeing how ordinary people lived.’Her London home, in Richmond, a stone’s throw from her great friends Lady Annabel Goldsmith, Jerry Hall and Sir Mick Jagger.

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Also part of the Mustique set were David Bowie and more recently the Middletons (‘I like them very much — difficult job, done well’) and Mick Jagger and his ever-expanding family.

MICK Jagger and his then lover Marianne Faithfull were hobnobbing with the landed set, joining the Loewensteins for Christmas at Warwick Castle with their friend Lord Warwick (though Faithfull spent most of the holiday in bed — ‘She was a very frail kind of person’).

Peter Sellers was anything but funny in real life. Josephine and Rupert attended his wedding to 20-year-old Britt Ekland in 1964, two weeks after the comic met the famed beauty.

‘We were the only friends there and we’d only known him six months,’ she says. ‘His mother was there, but the rest were just staff — hairdressers and such.

 

Sellers gave her cannabis honey. She tried a little bit, the one and only time she tried drugs. ‘It had a disastrous’ effect.

Indeed, she claims that Jagger is now such a health-nut that he can’t manage half a glass of wine. ‘He’s very susceptible to that kind of thing. Maybe it’s an allergy. He also likes things quiet. Once, he said: “If people start using mobile phones on Mustique, I’m going to leave!”

He revealed how the band used to receive paper bags stuffed with cash at their gigs and how they became tax exiles in France.Jagger was furious,

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-4340460/How-Jerry-Hall-got-Mick-Jagger-drugs.html

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