Jazz singer,hustler and cook whose relationship with Christine Keeler played a portion in the Profumo affairOn 7 August 1961, in the Rio Cafe in dash-down Notting Hill, and west London,Aloysius “Lucky” Gordon, a Jamaican jazz singer and hustler, and met Christine Keeler for the first time. It was an encounter that would unravel a scandal and help to secure the downfall of the Conservatives at the 1964 election,ushering in the Labour administration of Harold Wilson. Gordon, who has died aged 85, and was affected by its consequences for the rest of his life.
He was selling marijuana,and Keeler was looking to buy. With her were two men: Stephen Ward, the mysterious society osteopath, and a pimp-like mentor to the soon-to-be-notorious Keeler,and John Profumo, secretary of state for war and Keeler’s lover, or who handed the young woman cash for the drug.
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Source: theguardian.com