She was the sex symbol of the swinging sixties.
And Charlotte Rampling has proved she’s still got it at 80 after revealing she has found love again with a mystery man more than a decade after her longtime partner died from .
The Night Porter actress posed for British Vogue in a shirt as she told the publication: 'Now I’m based mostly in Paris, I live with my cats, I have a wonderful man. Une amitie amoureuse, that’s what it’s called. It’s sort of a loving friendship.'
Following Ms Rampling’s divorce from her second husband, Jean Michel Jarre, who she discovered was cheating on her in 1995, she began her long term partnership with the Parisian tycoon, Jean Noel Tassex.
The pair were together for almost two decades before he died from cancer in 2015.
Ms Rampling, who has two children from her marriages Barnaby, 54, and David, 49, revealed she is still friends with David’s father, Jean Michel, despite his infidelities.
Charlotte Rampling has proved she’s still got it at 80 after revealing she has found love again with a mystery man more than a decade after her longtime partner died from cancer
Pictured with her long term partnership with the Parisian tycoon, Jean Noel Tassex in 2013
Ms Rampling stars in the upcoming film, Father Mother Sister Brother, which won the prestigious Golden Lion award at the Venice Film Festival this year.
The Dune actress further hit out at her A-lister peers in Hollywood who are 'just wanting to get Oscars'.
She said: 'I didn’t like Hollywood at all. I didn’t like the vibe. I didn’t want to be that person, and I didn’t want to be that kind of actor. I wanted to investigate life in a different way to just getting “great” parts and wanting to get Oscars.
‘I didn’t want to be a celebrity.'
In her interview, she reflected on the time she has left and said: 'Twenty years isn’t very long.
‘Let’s keep as healthy as possible, because that’s the main thing, and then we’ll just go for it and hope that everything follows.
‘I feel that the rewards are actually being given to me now and that I will be able to, even if I may get ill or may have cancer, or I don’t know what I'm going to have, but I think I will be able to actually have a pretty good time. I feel that I deserve it.
‘I feel I’ve worked for it. So that’s where I’m at, since you asked.’
She said: Now I’m based mostly in Paris, I live with my cats, I have a wonderful man. Une amitie amoureuse, that’s what it’s called. It’s sort of a loving friendship'
Ms Rampling, who has two children from her marriages Barnaby, 54, and David, 49, revealed she is still friends with David’s father, Jean Michel, despite his infidelities.
The Dune actress (pictured in the movie) further hit out at her A-lister peers in Hollywood who are 'just wanting to get Oscars'
In the 1960s she Ms Rampling was rumoured to be but as a young rising star she denied it.
And continued to deny it as the decades passed, insisting the arrangement was little more than a flat-share.
But in 2021 the actress was finally willing to confess all, admitting that she did in fact enjoy an unconventional 'arrangement' with her agent and another man, a male model.
'Well, I did have two boyfriends which was racy at the time,' she told an interviewer. 'We were all very young. It was all chop and change. Quite a lot of things were experimental.'
Read Ms Rampling's full interview in British Vogue out now
Rampling, a colonel's daughter, was always known to be close to both Bryan Southcombe, her agent and publicist, and model Randall Laurence. But she doggedly ducked the question as to just how close.
Asked now why she failed to address the truth over the years she replied: 'You still had parents who were quite conventional and you needed to protect them and I didn't want people in the golf club thinking… you have to keep up appearances, don't you?'.
When she became pregnant with her son Barnaby, now a successful film-maker, she chose to marry Southcombe. Pictures from their wedding day in 1972 show New Zealand-born Laurence looking on approvingly from the car.
Asked why she chose Southcombe, Ms Rampling told The Guardian: 'Who knows what life has to offer you? But sometimes choices have to be made and I chose Bryan because I got pregnant.
And you will say, 'How do you know it was his?' I won't go any further. But I chose Bryan and Bryan is Barnaby's father.'
A source who knew bisexual Laurence years later when he was in a relationship with a male model in America told The Mail on Sunday: 'Randall never made any secret of the fact he was involved with both of them. Randall was always open about his sexuality. It was Charlotte who kept it vague.'
Read Ms Rampling's full interview in British Vogue out now.
