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SEBASTIAN SHAKESPEARE: Final insult for Jagger's tragic lover as firm shuts

By Sebastian Shakespeare for the Daily Mail

Published: 19:11 EST, 21 June 2015 | Updated: 21:12 EST, 21 June 2015

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When designer L’Wren Scott hanged herself last year at the age of 49, some friends suggested her long-term boyfriend, Sir Mick Jagger, might guarantee her legacy by keeping the fashion house going that she had built up over so many years.

I hear, however, that the British business, L.S. Fashion Ltd, whose designs were worn by American First Lady Michelle Obama and Hollywood stars including Nicole Kidman and Penelope Cruz, is to be wound up.

‘It’s very sad, but there is no longer the desire to keep it as a going concern,’ a source tells me. ‘L’Wren would be turning in her grave.’

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L'Wren Scott's business L.S. Fashion Ltd, whose designs were worn by Michelle Obama and Nicole Kidman, is to be wound up

John Hoffman, a director of the high-end label which the statuesque former model launched amid great fanfare in 2006, has applied to Companies House in London to have it struck from the register.

Sir Mick, 71, was in Australia when L’Wren’s body was found at the £5million flat he bought for her in New York and he postponed the Rolling Stones’ tour of Australia and New Zealand.

Accounts showed the label owed creditors a total of £6.5million, including £850,000 due to be paid within one year.

However, L’Wren’s spokesman said these figures were ‘highly misleading and inaccurate’ as the records reflected a loan from her parent company in America to the London subsidiary.

The spokesman said she had not been planning to close the firm, ‘the long–term prospects for the business were encouraging’, and it was fully able to pay its bills.

Friends suggested Sir Mick Jagger might guarantee his girlfriend's legacy by keeping the fashion house going that she had built up over so many years

Attendees arrive at New York memorial for L'Wren Scott (archive)

Last year it was reported that John Hoffman, who is also a director at the London department store Selfridges, would take the American’s firm under his wing in a bid to save the company.

L’Wren, who lived with Jagger at their homes in Chelsea and Manhattan, was reported to have secretly remortgaged the luxury U.S. apartment for £700,000, then asked Jagger to bail her out in February last year, triggering an argument.

She was said to be ‘embarrassed’ by her business problems, which reportedly meant she had struggled to pay staff and suppliers.

Now it's war! Author's insult over phone sex

Sociable Andrew Roberts, who will speak about Napoleon at the Chalke Valley History Festival on Wednesday, enjoys friendly relations with his fellow academics, but there is one author who gets his goat.

Nicholson Baker argued in his book Human Smoke that Churchill was as evil as Adolf Hitler.

‘Baker’s previous two books were about phone sex and masturb-ation,’ Roberts told a somewhat shocked audience of 500 middle-aged Americans in Colorado recently.

‘And while I have no doubt that he might be a world expert on both pastimes — or maybe we should call them his hobbies? — he knows nothing whatever about Churchill.’ Ouch.

Eugenie's Page Three party pal

There aren’t many parties where former Page Three girls can mingle with royalty, but Princess Eugenie’s 25th birthday bash saw Melinda Messenger invited to the Queen Mother’s former home.

Melinda, 44, wore a skimpy Tinker Bell outfit to the Disney-themed soiree at Royal Lodge, Windsor. She joined her boyfriend Warren Smith, who taught Eugenie’s sister, Princess Beatrice, to ski.

Melinda Messenger, 44, wore a skimpy Tinker Bell outfit to Princess Eugenie's Disney-themed soiree

Donna Air was at the party with James Middleton, who went as the Mad Hatter - a relatively restrained choice

Another blonde former TV presenter on the guest list was Donna Air, 35, who was invited as girlfriend of James Middleton, the Duchess of Cambridge’s brother.

Bearded cake-maker James went as the Mad Hatter — a relatively restrained choice given that he has attended previous fancy-dress parties in an inflatable sumo wrestler costume and a polka dot dress.

It won't all be Abbey endings at Downton

Having announced that the next series of Downton Abbey would be the last, Julian Fellowes is finding writing the finale painful.

‘I am gutted it’s ending, but I also think it’s right,’ says the Conservative peer, who will speak at the Chalke Valley History Festival next Sunday about the world of Downton Abbey.

‘I don’t think we should cling on until everyone is sick and tired of us.’

He says of ITV’s axeing of the hit period drama: ‘It was a joint decision; I wouldn’t say it was mine, but we all sort of agreed that it was time. I am still writing the last episode. The audience will have to wait and see what happens at the end, but I feel you can’t tie up every knot.’