Rampling was born into an upper class family in Sturmer, Essex, the daughter of Anne Isabelle (née Gurteen), a painter, and Godfrey Rampling, an Olympic Gold Medal winning athlete and army officer. She attended Jeanne d'Arc Académie pour Jeunes Filles in Versailles and St. Hilda's School, a boarding school in Bushey, Hertfordshire, England.
In 1972, Rampling married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model Randall Laurence and had one child, Barnaby, before divorcing in 1976. Barnaby Southcombe is now a successful television director. In 1978, she married the French composer Jean Michel Jarre and had a son, the magician David Jarre. She also raised her stepdaughter, Émilie Jarre, now a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown. She has been engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez, a French communications tycoon, since 1998.
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Born February 5, 1946, Essex, England
In 1972, Rampling married the actor Bryan Southcombe. They lived in a ménage à trois with a male model Randall Laurence and had one child, Barnaby, before divorcing in 1976. Barnaby Southcombe is now a successful television director. In 1978, she married the French composer Jean Michel Jarre and had a son, the magician David Jarre. She also raised her stepdaughter, Émilie Jarre, now a fashion designer. The marriage was publicly dissolved in 1997 when she found out via tabloid newspaper stories about Jarre's affairs with other women and had a nervous breakdown. She has been engaged to Jean-Noël Tassez, a French communications tycoon, since 1998.
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Born February 5, 1946, Essex, England
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