Zouzou
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Zouzou (born Danièle Ciarlet November 29, 1943 in Blida, Algeria) is a model, actress, singer and icon of the 60s and early 70s mostly known for her beauty and for her lead role in Éric Rohmer's Love in the afternoon. Her career however was constantly hampered by her addiction to heroin and other drugs.
She was the girlfriend of Brian Jones (of the Rolling Stones), Michel Taittinger, Jean-Paul Goude and Jack Nicholson, among others.
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[edit] Biography
She was a brilliant teenager, who obtained her Baccalauréat at 14 years of age, then enrolled at the Artististic Training Centre of the Académie Charpentier. She was an inspiration of the sixties passing through Régine, Castel, the Drugstore at the top of the Champs-Élysées and Gabriel Pommerand.
The news magazine Paris-Match baptised her "la twisteuse". She represented the liberated woman, who was active during the protests of May 1968.
She left then for Swinging London with Brian Jones, but leaves him and return to Paris. However, her success gradually erodes. In 1978 she left Paris for the Antilles where she would remain for 7 years. She returns to France in 1985 to take care of her mother.
[edit] Drug addiction
Since the beginning of the years 1970 she consumes drugs, in particular heroin, resulting in two short periods of incarceration in Fleury-Mérogis prison, in 1992 and 1994.
[edit] Rebound
Recently, and after years of problems, her career rebounds. At the beginning of 2004, a retrospective on Zouzou is organized by Centre Georges Pompidou
