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And over half a century later, a number of elements might seem oddly… familiar.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The ‘Profumo Affair,’ as it would come to be known, was set in a '60s Britain that was definitely not yet “swinging.” When events began in 1961, the food rationing instigated during World War II had only finally ended seven years prior. The contraceptive pill wasn’t yet available to women around the country, and the Beatles were relative unknowns.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">The Profumo in question was a 46-year-old married politician named John Profumo, the government’s Secretary of State for War. Despite frequent rumors about his infidelities, Profumo was an uncontroversial figure -- rich, successful -- at the very top of UK politics. 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One of his friendships in particular -- with a Russian official \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">and London-based spy named Yevgeny Ivanov -- had even attracted the attention of British intelligence agency MI5.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Ward wasn’t cracking the backs of the rich and famous, or playing Russian and British spies off each other, he was hanging out in London’s club scene, where he’d first met Christine Keeler. Sensing that having a gorgeous young showgirl close to him might come in handy in his multiple endeavors of varying legality, Ward took Keeler -- plus her friend Mandy Rice-Davies, who was even younger -- under his wing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Profumo soon began a sexual relationship after their poolside meet-cute, but here let’s pause -- lest you think this is just another story about a powerful man having an affair -- and remember Russia. In 1961, the Cold War was a suffocating presence in geopolitics. Then, as now, Russian influence in domestic affairs was a terrifying prospect. 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(\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cliveden,_June_2005.JPG\">Daderot/Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>) \u003ccite>(Daderot/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Against this backdrop, the very worst person for the mistress of UK Secretary for War John Profumo to simultaneously be sleeping with would be a Russian spy. But of course, that’s exactly who she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> sleeping with: Ward’s old pal Ivanov, with all the collusion-friendly “passing state secrets during pillow-talk” potential that brought. Even though the affair between Keeler and Profumo -- which she described as \"screw of convenience\" -- wound down fast, rumors soon began swirling in London.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet despite mounting conjecture, the press wouldn’t touch the story. The Conservative government of the time had been engaged in fierce hostility with the press, and amid a string of much-reported spy scandals in early ‘60s Britain, the USSR’s blackmail of civil servant John Vassall stood out. Many of us only learned the term \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kompromat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> following allegations about Donald Trump’s 2013 visit to a Moscow hotel room, but the tactic of gathering and deploying damaging information for political benefit has been in use for decades by Russian intelligence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1962, they had successful leveraged proof of Vassall’s sexuality -- being gay was illegal until 1967 in the UK -- to pressure him into spying for them. In the fallout from the subsequent inquiry, two British journalists were jailed for protecting their sources, in a move that hugely damaged relations between the administration and a defensive media. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So even by 1963, when Christine Keeler sensed rising interest and attempted to sell her account to the press, she wasn’t successful at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103998 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-160x205.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-768x984.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1020x1306.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1920x2459.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1180x1511.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-960x1230.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-240x307.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-375x480.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-520x666.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler, pictured in London in 1963 in London. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story became harder to ignore, however, when a former boyfriend of Keeler’s went on trial for shooting up the house in which she was staying -- of course, Stephen Ward’s house. As speculation mounted about Profumo’s involvement in this bizarre series of events, the politician’s strategy for handling media interest in his affair was to go on the offensive, threatening to sue -- and actually suing one outlet for libel -- and discrediting the stories as what we’d now refer to as “fake news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1963, Bill Clinton was only 17 years old and 3,000 miles away in Arkansas when Profumo gave a formal statement to his government that \"there was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler.\" This was, of course, the lie that would ultimately damn him, as the UK police authorities began to investigate the man whose connecting and fixing had powered this whole scandal forward: Stephen Ward. As official statements and evidence piled up, Profumo realized the game was up, confessed all, and resigned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the British press, which now included the increasingly popular medium of television, finally considered themselves unleashed, the characters of Profumo and Ward were mercilessly scrutinized, the former portrayed as duped sleaze ball, the latter as pimp and Russian colluder. Meanwhile, Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davie\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s found themselves subjected to more gendered criticism from both the press and politicians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were branded with terms like “whore,” “slut,” and “dirty little prostitute” by male politicians of the time who were incensed not just at the potential damage to national security, but by the way the scandal opened the floodgates for a glut of subsequent stories alleging misconduct and sexual impropriety among the ruling classes. Rumors of sex parties, affairs, even masked naked royals at orgies, trashed the myth of upper-class respectability, and lifted the lid on a sex-fueled world that relied on the services of men like Stephen Ward, and the bodies of working class women like Keeler and Rice-Davies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4174px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104000 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4174\" height=\"3304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg 4174w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-768x608.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1020x807.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1920x1520.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4174px) 100vw, 4174px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandy Rice-Davies, pictured in Holland in 1964. (Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives,)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">To modern observers there might be echoes of how someone like Stormy Daniels -- another woman making her living from erotic entertainment, alleging sexual relations with a powerful man who’s denying it -- deals with her critics. In the same way, Daniels receives the words intended to silence women like her -- slut, whore -- on Twitter as her cue to speak more, not less.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>https://twitter.com/stormydaniels/status/971923035153424384?lang=en\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Rice-Davies simply refused to be quiet or go away. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the height of the Profumo scandal, Keeler sat for a\u003ca href=\"http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/christine-keeler-photograph-a-modern-icon/\"> now-iconic, much-imitated nude photo shoot,\u003c/a> in which she meets the viewer’s gaze directly, as if to say “How do you like me now?” For her part, the teenage Rice-Davies entered courtroom clap-back folklore, when asked about her alleged affair with Lord Astor (the politician, remember, who hosted that fateful 1961 party), and the fact that this powerful man almost 40 years her senior had denied everything. Her response: “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?” These five words have since \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRDA_(slang)\">become skeptical internet shorthand\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did this all end? With death, disgrace, and the fall of a government. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Ward was put on trial on pimping charges, but on the eve of his sentencing, he was found dead of an apparently self-administered sleeping pill overdose. To this day, some suspect foul play on the part of those about whom he might have known too much. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His protégée Christine Keeler received six months of jail time for perjury during the trial of another ex-boyfriend, whom she’d claimed attacked her. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a government inquiry exonerated Profumo of inadvertently passing state secrets to the Russian authorities, but later in 1963, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fell ill and, at least partly exhausted by this relentless scandal, resigned. The Conservative party didn’t regain power again until 1970.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104003\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1207px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104003 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"1207\" height=\"606\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM.png 1207w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-160x80.png 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-800x402.png 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-768x386.png 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1020x512.png 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1200x602.png 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-1180x592.png 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-960x482.png 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-240x120.png 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-375x188.png 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Screenshot-2018-06-04-at-10.54.56-PM-520x261.png 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1207px) 100vw, 1207px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler arriving at court in 1963. (Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amid all the startling parallels to modern politics and public life, there’s one final element of this story that surprises: what John Profumo did next, after being caught in one of the biggest sexual misconduct scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Months after the explosion of the #MeToo movement, we now find ourselves wondering what, if anything, we’re meant to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with an ever-growing list of disgraced men, many of whom are now actively planning their comebacks with varying degrees of humility. Total self-exile seems to be beyond most of those whose reputations now lie in tatters of their own making, yet over 50 years ago, that’s exactly what Profumo himself chose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After apologizing to the prime minister, his political party, and the general public, he became a volunteer at an East London anti-poverty charity, where he quite literally scrubbed toilets. After that first self-flagellating penance as a quasi-janitor, Profumo continued volunteering there in administrative and fundraising roles. Right up until his death at age 90 in 2006, Profumo gave not one single interview -- no mea culpa profile, no humble photo shoot. Others -- including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- spoke about him, and praised the re-dedication of his life to charity, but in a world of the swiftly-issued apology (or denial), Profumo’s own deafening silence is now almost unthinkable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re entitled to your skepticism about the low stakes inherent in a man with vast inherited wealth being able to volunteer for the rest of his life, but the fact remains: Profumo’s charity atonement took place without the “story-straightening” soul-baring interviews, or the big symbolic “welcome back” to public life, and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lasted decades, for the rest of his life. For a man who once wielded such agency, whose voice carried such weight, mute self-exile feels like the ultimate renunciation of male power. How telling that the powerful men accused of far less consensual sexual behavior, over five decades later, won’t even seem to consider the same route.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>This piece was inspired by an episode of \u003ca href=\"https://itunes.apple.com/us/podcast/the-cooler/id1041117499?mt=2\">The Cooler\u003c/a>, KQED’s weekly pop culture podcast. Give it a listen!\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[audio src=\"https://www.kqed.org/.stream/anon/radio/thecooler/2018/06/Gyno.mp3\" title=\"The Profumo Affair\" program=\"The Cooler\" image=\"https://cdn.images.express.co.uk/img/dynamic/141/590x/Profumo-514838.jpg\"]\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">When Ward wasn’t cracking the backs of the rich and famous, or playing Russian and British spies off each other, he was hanging out in London’s club scene, where he’d first met Christine Keeler. Sensing that having a gorgeous young showgirl close to him might come in handy in his multiple endeavors of varying legality, Ward took Keeler -- plus her friend Mandy Rice-Davies, who was even younger -- under his wing.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Profumo soon began a sexual relationship after their poolside meet-cute, but here let’s pause -- lest you think this is just another story about a powerful man having an affair -- and remember Russia. In 1961, the Cold War was a suffocating presence in geopolitics. Then, as now, Russian influence in domestic affairs was a terrifying prospect. In a time when the USSR was testing huge nuclear weapons, the Berlin Wall had just gone up, and the Russians were looking like they could conquer space too, it’s almost impossible to overstate the UK’s fear and apprehension over Russia’s reach.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104007\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg class=\"size-full wp-image-104007\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-160x120.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-768x576.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-240x180.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-375x281.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Cliveden_June_2005-520x390.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Cliveden House, the scene of Lord Astor's 1961 party at which Profumo first met Keeler. (\u003ca href=\"https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Cliveden,_June_2005.JPG\">Daderot/Wikimedia Commons\u003c/a>) \u003ccite>(Daderot/Wikimedia Commons)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Against this backdrop, the very worst person for the mistress of UK Secretary for War John Profumo to simultaneously be sleeping with would be a Russian spy. But of course, that’s exactly who she \u003cem>was\u003c/em> sleeping with: Ward’s old pal Ivanov, with all the collusion-friendly “passing state secrets during pillow-talk” potential that brought. Even though the affair between Keeler and Profumo -- which she described as \"screw of convenience\" -- wound down fast, rumors soon began swirling in London.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Yet despite mounting conjecture, the press wouldn’t touch the story. The Conservative government of the time had been engaged in fierce hostility with the press, and amid a string of much-reported spy scandals in early ‘60s Britain, the USSR’s blackmail of civil servant John Vassall stood out. Many of us only learned the term \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">kompromat\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> following allegations about Donald Trump’s 2013 visit to a Moscow hotel room, but the tactic of gathering and deploying damaging information for political benefit has been in use for decades by Russian intelligence.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1962, they had successful leveraged proof of Vassall’s sexuality -- being gay was illegal until 1967 in the UK -- to pressure him into spying for them. In the fallout from the subsequent inquiry, two British journalists were jailed for protecting their sources, in a move that hugely damaged relations between the administration and a defensive media. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So even by 1963, when Christine Keeler sensed rising interest and attempted to sell her account to the press, she wasn’t successful at first.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_103998\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1952px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-103998 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1952\" height=\"2500\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679.jpg 1952w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-160x205.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-800x1025.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-768x984.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1020x1306.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-937x1200.jpg 937w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1920x2459.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-1180x1511.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-960x1230.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-240x307.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-375x480.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/GettyImages-51393679-520x666.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1952px) 100vw, 1952px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Christine Keeler, pictured in London in 1963 in London. (AFP/Getty) \u003ccite>(AFP/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The story became harder to ignore, however, when a former boyfriend of Keeler’s went on trial for shooting up the house in which she was staying -- of course, Stephen Ward’s house. As speculation mounted about Profumo’s involvement in this bizarre series of events, the politician’s strategy for handling media interest in his affair was to go on the offensive, threatening to sue -- and actually suing one outlet for libel -- and discrediting the stories as what we’d now refer to as “fake news.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In 1963, Bill Clinton was only 17 years old and 3,000 miles away in Arkansas when Profumo gave a formal statement to his government that \"there was no impropriety whatsoever in my acquaintanceship with Miss Keeler.\" This was, of course, the lie that would ultimately damn him, as the UK police authorities began to investigate the man whose connecting and fixing had powered this whole scandal forward: Stephen Ward. As official statements and evidence piled up, Profumo realized the game was up, confessed all, and resigned.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Now that the British press, which now included the increasingly popular medium of television, finally considered themselves unleashed, the characters of Profumo and Ward were mercilessly scrutinized, the former portrayed as duped sleaze ball, the latter as pimp and Russian colluder. Meanwhile, Keeler and her friend Mandy Rice-Davie\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">s found themselves subjected to more gendered criticism from both the press and politicians.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">They were branded with terms like “whore,” “slut,” and “dirty little prostitute” by male politicians of the time who were incensed not just at the potential damage to national security, but by the way the scandal opened the floodgates for a glut of subsequent stories alleging misconduct and sexual impropriety among the ruling classes. Rumors of sex parties, affairs, even masked naked royals at orgies, trashed the myth of upper-class respectability, and lifted the lid on a sex-fueled world that relied on the services of men like Stephen Ward, and the bodies of working class women like Keeler and Rice-Davies.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_104000\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 4174px\">\u003cimg class=\"wp-image-104000 size-full\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/pop/wp-content/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"4174\" height=\"3304\" srcset=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858.jpg 4174w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-160x127.jpg 160w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-800x633.jpg 800w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-768x608.jpg 768w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1020x807.jpg 1020w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1200x950.jpg 1200w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1920x1520.jpg 1920w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-1180x934.jpg 1180w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-960x760.jpg 960w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-240x190.jpg 240w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-375x297.jpg 375w, https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/12/2018/06/Mandy_Rice_Davies_op_Schiphol_Bestanddeelnr_917-1858-520x412.jpg 520w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 4174px) 100vw, 4174px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Mandy Rice-Davies, pictured in Holland in 1964. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Keeler and Rice-Davies simply refused to be quiet or go away. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">At the height of the Profumo scandal, Keeler sat for a\u003ca href=\"http://www.vam.ac.uk/content/articles/c/christine-keeler-photograph-a-modern-icon/\"> now-iconic, much-imitated nude photo shoot,\u003c/a> in which she meets the viewer’s gaze directly, as if to say “How do you like me now?” For her part, the teenage Rice-Davies entered courtroom clap-back folklore, when asked about her alleged affair with Lord Astor (the politician, remember, who hosted that fateful 1961 party), and the fact that this powerful man almost 40 years her senior had denied everything. Her response: “Well, he would, wouldn’t he?” These five words have since \u003ca href=\"https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MRDA_(slang)\">become skeptical internet shorthand\u003c/a>.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">So how did this all end? With death, disgrace, and the fall of a government. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Stephen Ward was put on trial on pimping charges, but on the eve of his sentencing, he was found dead of an apparently self-administered sleeping pill overdose. To this day, some suspect foul play on the part of those about whom he might have known too much. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">His protégée Christine Keeler received six months of jail time for perjury during the trial of another ex-boyfriend, whom she’d claimed attacked her. \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And a government inquiry exonerated Profumo of inadvertently passing state secrets to the Russian authorities, but later in 1963, Prime Minister Harold Macmillan fell ill and, at least partly exhausted by this relentless scandal, resigned. 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(Dutch National Archives/Wikimedia Commons) \u003ccite>(Dutch National Archives)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Amid all the startling parallels to modern politics and public life, there’s one final element of this story that surprises: what John Profumo did next, after being caught in one of the biggest sexual misconduct scandals the UK had ever seen. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Months after the explosion of the #MeToo movement, we now find ourselves wondering what, if anything, we’re meant to \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">do\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> with an ever-growing list of disgraced men, many of whom are now actively planning their comebacks with varying degrees of humility. Total self-exile seems to be beyond most of those whose reputations now lie in tatters of their own making, yet over 50 years ago, that’s exactly what Profumo himself chose. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">After apologizing to the prime minister, his political party, and the general public, he became a volunteer at an East London anti-poverty charity, where he quite literally scrubbed toilets. After that first self-flagellating penance as a quasi-janitor, Profumo continued volunteering there in administrative and fundraising roles. Right up until his death at age 90 in 2006, Profumo gave not one single interview -- no mea culpa profile, no humble photo shoot. Others -- including Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher -- spoke about him, and praised the re-dedication of his life to charity, but in a world of the swiftly-issued apology (or denial), Profumo’s own deafening silence is now almost unthinkable. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">You’re entitled to your skepticism about the low stakes inherent in a man with vast inherited wealth being able to volunteer for the rest of his life, but the fact remains: Profumo’s charity atonement took place without the “story-straightening” soul-baring interviews, or the big symbolic “welcome back” to public life, and\u003c/span> \u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">lasted decades, for the rest of his life. For a man who once wielded such agency, whose voice carried such weight, mute self-exile feels like the ultimate renunciation of male power. 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