Marianne Faithfull

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She was the fresh-faced 60s beauty who seduced three of the Rolling Stones.
And now, a collection of saucy snaps of Marianne Faithfull mark the moment when she went from a country girl to a true, marketable sophisticate.

Snapped by legendary photographer Terry O’Neill, the sizzling starlet can be seen wearing just a basque with stockings and suspenders.

These saucy snaps of 1960s star Marianne Faithfull mark the moment when she went from a country girl to suspender-wearing starlet

The collection of twelve photographs, which will go under the hammer in September at Christie's auction house and are expected to fetch up to £4,000. The photographs show how O’Neill got Faithfull to create the image he desired.

Faithfull was the fresh-faced beauty who seduced the Rolling Stones

Speaking of the 1964 shoot, O’Neill said: 'I wanted to make her look more sophisticated and glamorous.