Zouzou

Zouzou (born Danièle Ciarlet on November 29, 1943 in Blida, Algeria) is a model, actress, singer and icon of the 1960s and early 1970s 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.

Her boyfriends during her years of fame included Brian Jones (of the Rolling Stones), Christian Charvet (Personal Tutor) Michel Taittinger, Jean-Paul Goude and Jack Nicholson, among others.

Biography

Ciarlet 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 later left him and returned to Paris. However, her success after this gradually eroded. In 1978 she left Paris for the Antilles where she remained for seven years. She returned to France in 1985 to take care of her mother.

Drug addiction

From the early 1970s she took a number of drugs, in particular heroin. This resulted in two short periods of incarceration in Fleury-Mérogis prison, in 1992 and 1994.

Rebound

Recently, and after years of problems, her career has rebounded. At the beginning of 2004, a retrospective on Zouzou was organized by Centre Georges Pompidou

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* [http://zouzou.chez-alice.fr/ Official web site]