After graduating from North Mesquite High School, Jerry left home to pursue a modeling career in Paris. Soon she was making thousands of dollars a week and was engaged to rock star Bryan Ferry from the band Roxy Music. With her career in full-swing, Jerry scored contracts with major cosmetic labels, becoming the face of Yves Saint Laurent Opium perfume and Revlon cosmetics. She also starred in two Roxy Music videos and was featured on the sleeve of their 1975 album, Sirens.
At twenty-three-years old, Jerry left Bryan Ferry for the Rolling Stone's Mick Jagger. The couple welcomed the birth of their first daughter, Elizabeth Scarlett in 1984. They also had a son named James Leroy in 1985. That same year, Jerry published her autobiography, Tall Tales.
Mick and Jerry were married on November 21, 1990, and soon after had a second daughter, Georgia May Ayeesha. Baby number four, Gabriel Luke Beauregard, born in 1997, would be the couple’s last child together. Two years later, model Luciana Morad announced to the press that she was pregnant with Mick’s child, prompting Jerry to file for divorce. However, the couple’s 1990 Hindu beach wedding ceremony in Bali turned out to be invalid under English law, and an annulment was enforced by a High Court judge in 1999. The ex-spouses are reportedly amicable neighbors and currently living next-door to each other in London’s Richmond Hill.
Jerry’s first major acting debut came in the 1980 film, Willie and Phil. She also starred as Alicia the gangster moll in Tim Burton’s Batman in 1989, and as Lady Motley in Princess Caraboo in 1994, a film based on the true story of a 19th century woman who pretended to be a princess from a fictional island and was welcomed into high-society. On the small-screen, Jerry has starred in various commercials and television series as well as the 2005 VH1 reality television series Kept, in which male contestants competed for her affections.
In 2004, Jerry made the Guinness Book of Records for most theatrical performances in one night. In front of over 9,000 London theatergoers and in just under three and a half hours, Jerry appeared in Phantom of the Opera, Les Miserables, Fame, Blood Brothers, Anything Goes, and Chitty Chitty Bang Bang. Jerry’s other stage credits include succeeding Kathleen Turner in the role of Mrs. Robinson for the 2003 production of The Graduate, as well as playing Mother Lord in the 2005 London production of Cole Porter's High Society.
In 2005, Jerry was signed as spokesperson for Levitra, an Erection Dysfunction product manufactured by Bayer Healthcare. She endorsed a global campaign which encouraged women to "Strike up a conversation" with their partner and generate awareness of the condition. Jerry has also lent her voice to London for the National Association for People Abused in Childhood.
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