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Jerry Hall is 70, single for one of the first times in her life, and is loving this incarnation. \u201cIt sounds selfish, but I really enjoy just doing what I want to do,\u201d she tells me in her Scarlett O\u2019Hara drawl. \u201cYou worry about getting old and being alone, then you get there and think, \u2018Hey, this is really great!\u2019 What a surprise.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI was a bit nervous about living alone at first,\u201d she continues. \u201cI thought, \u2018Oh God, I\u2019ve never done this ever\u2019, but it\u2019s so easy! The house stays so clean. You can watch anything you want on TV.\u201d She loves hosting friends for lunches and dinners. \u201cBut now I only invite the people I love. It\u2019s the most peaceful, stress-free time of my life.\u201d<\/p>\n
She bursts out laughing, before adding with considerable satisfaction: \u201cAnd I can sleep diagonally across the bed.\u201d<\/p>\n
Hall is the OG supermodel, a six-foot (183-centimetre) platinum-blonde glamazon personified, whose extraordinary life reads like a Zelig-ish parade of greatest cultural hits. Everyone knows about the men: her teenage engagement to Roxy Music\u2019s Bryan Ferry<\/a>, whom she dumped for Mick Jagger, the notoriously philandering father of her four children. They divorced in 1999, and in 2016 she startled many by marrying<\/a> media mogul Rupert Murdoch, a marriage that ended<\/a> six years later.<\/p>\n But to define Hall by her relationships is to diminish her brilliance. This is the woman who escaped small-town Texas aged 16 for Paris, where she hung out with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and flat-shared with Jessica Lange and Grace Jones. She refused to pose naked for Salvador Dal\u00ed (her mother wouldn\u2019t have liked it) and gossiped at Studio 54 with Andy Warhol, Tennessee Williams, Diana Vreeland and Truman Capote.<\/p>\n She was the face of Dior and Versace, appeared in films such as Batman and Urban Cowboy, and caused a furore when \u2013 at 44 \u2013 she stripped naked in the West End playing Mrs Robinson in The Graduate<\/a>.<\/p>\n Now, in a less highbrow but still fabulous twist, she\u2019s beloved by a whole new generation as one of the 21 contestants in the UK\u2019s reality TV series Celebrity Traitors.<\/p>\n \u201cI lerved it!\u201d she enthuses. She must have made loads of new friends among her fellow traitors\/faithfuls. \u201cI did! I lerved [comedians] Rob Beckett and Romesh [Ranganathan]. They made me laugh so much. Rob and his family came over to have lunch with me the other day. So. Much. Fuhn.\u201d<\/p>\n Fuhn \u2013 or \u201cfun\u201d, to stop with the phonetic transcription \u2013 is what Hall\u2019s dedicated to chasing. Hugely charismatic, dramatic in her gestures and timing, she uses the word at least two dozen times during our conversation. She certainly deserves it.<\/p>\n Today, she and Jagger are on great terms: she spent Christmas with him and his vast family at his Mustique estate in the Caribbean, and he and his 39-year-old girlfriend Melanie Hamrick attended her 70th birthday party in July.<\/p>\n Her divorce from Murdoch is shrouded in non-disclosure agreements, but allegedly ended with him blindsiding her with an email. Yet now, those dark times have been firmly put aside. \u201cThey used to say we had three score [years] and 10,\u201d she says. \u201cBut nowadays, people live into their 80s, sometimes more. And I\u2019ve done my job. I\u2019ve had a great career, raised my children. Now it\u2019s fun time for me.\u201d Is this her favourite decade yet? \u201cDefinitely! No pressure.\u201d<\/p>\n It\u2019s still a man\u2019s world, let\u2019s face it. But older women are being respected more.<\/p>\n JERRY HALL<\/p>\n Much of the fun derives from her girlfriends, many of whom she\u2019s known for 50 years (\u201cThey come and stay and we have a great laugh\u201d), some acquired in her most recent home in Oxfordshire, UK. It\u2019s a far cry from the days when she was constantly \u2013 and not always successfully \u2013 heading off Jagger\u2019s groupies (during their marriage he was serially unfaithful and had a son with Brazilian model Luciana Morad). \u201cNow I\u2019m not worried about some woman stealing my man. I\u2019m liberated from being paranoid. I have this great group: we play bridge once a week, we\u2019re really into gardening. It\u2019s just so lovely.\u201d<\/p>\n Generally, Hall has seen a welcome shift in the way her generation is treated. \u201cIt\u2019s still a man\u2019s world, let\u2019s face it. But older women are being respected more. Even in movies now, you see them playing romantic parts. It used to be that you were the crone. We\u2019re finally coming into our time.\u201d<\/p>\n Having brought up her four children with Jagger \u2013 Elizabeth, 42, James, 41, Georgia May, 34, and Gabriel, 28 \u2013 in Surrey, UK, Hall now lives in an 11-bedroom Georgian manor, one of her former homes with Murdoch and part of their divorce settlement. There are three dogs, two cats, 10 chickens and a beloved vegetable plot, which she\u2019s tenaciously kept alive throughout the drought aided by her borehole.<\/p>\n As mentioned, Hall celebrated her 70th with a lunch party in her garden for 177 \u201cclose friends\u201d (she says this with a self-deprecating chuckle). \u201cIt was all over by 6pm and it was such fun. I had an Elvis impersonator. I was dancing with my grandkids. Oh, and quite a few exes were there.\u201d<\/p>\n Oh yes? She smiles mischievously and refuses to expand on who \u2013 Jagger apart \u2013 these might have been. Other guests included Bob Geldof, who made a speech, Charlotte Tilbury and Tom Stoppard\u2019s widow Sabrina Guinness. Hall wore a fetching silk black polka-dot tie-belted dress. \u201cIt was good for dancing. But afterwards, I thought, \u2019What was I thinking? I should have worn something more glamorous, more sparkly. But we started at 12.30pm and it was over at 6pm.\u201d<\/p>\n Jerry Faye Hall grew up in Mesquite, Texas, with three older sisters and a fraternal twin, Terry Jaye, who today is a real-estate broker. Her father was a delivery driver, who\u2019d fought for five years under General George Patton in World War II, and struggled with his mental health, sometimes whipping his daughters with his belt. \u201cHe was difficult, but amazing. The war was horrible for him.\u201d Their mother instilled her brood with a spirit of optimism. \u201cShe loved watching all these old Hollywood movies and she\u2019d make all these beautiful clothes for us, so we were trained in the appreciation of glamour.\u201d<\/p>\n Inspired by watching To Catch A Thief, her mother despatched her 16-year-old daughter to the French Riviera. In Saint-Tropez, a model agent instantly spotted her in a string bikini. She was photographed by Helmut Newton, David Bailey and Norman Parkinson for Vogue, and aged 19 appeared on the cover of Roxy Music\u2019s 1975 album Siren. Lead singer Ferry, then 30, fell hard for her, but after three years as London\u2019s It couple, she left him for Jagger, a decision \u2013 she\u2019s said \u2013 that left her \u201chorribly torn\u201d, although she claims she and Ferry are still friends.<\/p>\n With Jagger, she partied relentlessly, spending \u2013 she\u2019s said \u2013 virtually every night for three years at Manhattan\u2019s Studio 54 nightclub, which never kicked off before midnight. Didn\u2019t she yearn for a night in front of the telly? \u201cI was exhausted. But it was so much fun and I was young,\u201d she explains. Today her bedtime is 9.30pm, although occasionally she busts loose, for example when she stayed at Tilbury\u2019s house in Lamu in February. \u201cI stayed up quite late dancing with Richard E. Grant; we went completely mad.\u201d<\/p>\n Hall is one of the few with memories of the hedonistic 1970s, because she never touched drugs. \u201cI was the goody-goody,\u201d she says. \u201cI would occasionally have a glass of white wine and smoke a few fags and I was considered a prude. I\u2019m still doing the same thing, but now it\u2019s shocking.\u201d Her children castigate her for smoking. \u201cBut young people don\u2019t have enough fun. They\u2019re very serious.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p>\n Reports say today\u2019s Gen Z \u2013 the under 30s \u2013 are having less and less sex. \u201cI heard!\u201d Hall rolls her eyes. \u201cShocking! I had lots of sex. So lucky.\u201d Another throaty laugh.<\/p>\n When she met Jagger, her one stipulation was that he kick his heroin habit. \u201cWith my children I said, \u2018I don\u2019t care if you make good grades in school, or go to university, or get a job that pays well. You can always live with me. But the one thing you can\u2019t do is become a heroin addict.\u2019 So it was a pretty low bar. But they\u2019re wonderful people.\u201d<\/p>\n Today both her daughters model successfully, James is an actor and Gabriel an entrepreneur. All are partnered up, apart from Elizabeth who recently split from her husband, American producer Christopher Behlau. Elizabeth and Georgia May each have a son and James a daughter. \u201cI love being a grandma,\u201d Hall cries, eyes wide. \u201cWhat excites me more than anything is having the grandchildren come to stay. Thrilling!\u201d<\/p>\n After her children left school, she took a four-year humanities degree at the Open University. \u201cThen I did some poetry courses with the Arvon Foundation [in Devon], and then I went to UC Davis [in California] and did chemistry and algebra and got my winemaking certificate.\u201d She adds in a rare reference to the Murdoch era on his Bel Air estate, \u201cI was living on a vineyard, so it made sense. Then someone gave me a boat, so I got my captain\u2019s licence. I just think it\u2019s fun.\u201d<\/p>\n![\"\u201cI\u2019ve](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/0dee7be42fcfca0c15f6aca0b6db807e8a6cde06.jpeg\")
\u201cI\u2019ve had a great career, raised my children. Now it\u2019s fun time for me.\u201dDavid Sims\/Trunk Archive\/Snapper<\/p>\n![\"Hall](\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/10\/05e5960de122caeba39add9a1f05a84d1a6647a687e742a28fbe8b788d9ad4c3.jpeg\")
Hall at the Saint Laurent show at Paris Fashion Week in September.Getty Images<\/p>\n
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