Mariella Novotny

Mariella Novotny (born Stella Marie Capes, 9 May 1941 – 1 February 1983) was an English socialite and prostitute who was part of Christine Keeler's social circle and mixed extensively with British establishment figures in the events leading up to the Profumo affair.[1][2][3]

Novotny was born in Yorkshire in 1941.[4] She married the club owner Horace Dibben in January 1960.[5][6]

She has been said to have had relationships with John F. Kennedy and Robert Kennedy,[2] and to have worked with MI5.[1]

In the 1989 film Scandal about the Profumo affair, she was portrayed by Britt Ekland.

She died in 1983 of a drug overdose, aged 41.[2]

References
  1. Whitfield, David (20 July 2018). "Mariella Novotny, Kennedy and Profumo are tied up in this unsettling portrait". NottinghamshireLive. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  2. "Mariella Novotny". Spartacus Educational. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  3. "The Chief Whip And The Man In The Mask". Standpoint. 22 November 2013. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
  4. Summers, Anthony; Dorril, Stephen (6 December 2013). The Secret Worlds of Stephen Ward: Sex, Scandal and Deadly Secrets in the Profumo Affair. Headline. ISBN 978-1-4722-1663-2.
  5. Knightley, Phillip; Kennedy, Caroline (1987). An Affair of State: The Profumo Case and the Framing of Stephen Ward. Cape. p. 97. ISBN 978-0-224-02347-4.
  6. Baker, Rob (20 October 2014). "Caxton Hall in Westminster - Where the Stars Got Married". Flashbak. Retrieved 1 February 2021.
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