Marianne Faithfull is fighting the coronavirus in a London hospital. The 73-year-old Brit, who famously dated Rolling Stone star Mick Jagger from 1966 to 1970, was admitted at the end of March for pneumonia, and subsequently tested positive for Covid-19, according to a Facebook post shared by her friend, Penny Arcade, on Saturday.
The singer’s manager, Francois Ravard, added in a statement to Billboard.com: “Marianne is being treated for Covid-19 in hospital in London.
She is stable and responding to treatment, we all wish her well and a full and speedy recovery.” Arcade insisted Faithfull is “not on a ventilator”, but in an earlier post, revealed she had been in contact with Faithfull’s ex-husband, John Dunbar, who told her Marianne “can