Mick Jagger Once Slept With the Girlfriend of Rolling Stones Bandmate Keith Richards’ On-Camera

Rolling Stones bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had a bit of friction way back in the day after the former had sex with the latter’s girlfriend on-camera while filming a movie.

In journalist Bob Spitz’s new book simply titled The Rolling Stones: The Biography, he tells the story of Jagger, 82, filming the movie Performance alongside Anita Pallenberg, who was dating Richards, 82, at the time. Jagger’s character is supposed to be in a somewhat polyamorous relationship with Pallenberg’s character and Michele Breton’s character.

“There were lots of drugs on the set fueling the debauchery, including a frisky, communal bathtub scene with Mick, Anita and Michèle,” Spitz writes in the book, per Us Weekly.

According to Rolling Stones co-founder Ian Stewart, rather than simulate sex in a scene like they were supposed to, Jagger and Pallenberg had actual intercourse on-camera for the scene.

“Although what wound up in the picture was a lot of vague, tumbling bodies in the sheets, nothing explicit, there was a lot of very explicit footage [taken by Anita on her handheld movie camera] of Mick and Anita really screwing — steamy, lusty stuff that was edited into a separate X-rated short feature,” Stewart told Sptiz.

After viewing the footage, Warner Bros. reportedly shut down production to decide if they wanted to scrap the whole movie entirely. Performance was shelved until 1970, a full two years after the alleged incident occurred. At the time, Richards wasn’t happy with Pallenberg.

Us Weekly notes that Pallenberg spoke about the incident in her journals before she died at age 75.

“Mick had never done a movie before, and he liked my confidence, and we were spending more time together. I never really fancied him at all, but you spend eight days in bed together, giggling and taking dope just to produce two minutes of film, what do you expect?” she wrote. “Keith never spoke about it, he stayed silent, the worst reaction of all.”