The relationship between Keith Richards and his wife Patti Hansen is stronger than ever.
The Rolling Stones lead guitarist and songwriter, who also celebrated his 80th birthday on Monday, took to Instagram to mark their 40th wedding anniversary with a photo of them cutting a celebratory cake after their wedding.
“To Patricia, happy 40th anniversary! I love you. Keith🖤,” Richards wrote alongside the post, which showed him wearing a tuxedo alongside the model and actress, 67, who wore a short-sleeved satin wedding dress against an ocean backdrop.
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Richards and Hansen have been together since 1979. The couple first met at Studio 54 on Hansen’s 23rd birthday. Nine months later, Mick Jagger’s then-girlfriend Jerry Hall invited Hansen to Keith’s 36th birthday party and they started dating.
During their relationship, Richards creatively expressed his feelings for Hansen.
“Keith used to make me mixtapes all the time, and he would do beautiful drawings on them. That was his method of communication,” Hansen said. Harper’s Bazaar in November 2011. “I’ve got everything in boxes. Thousands of those tapes. I’ve got it all.”
He also made collages with photos and notes written in his blood. “It looks gross when it dries, but he likes the color red,” she added.
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Keith Richards and Patti Hansen. LGI Stock/Corbis/VCG/Getty
In Richards’ autobiography Life, pulled out a diary entry from 1980 about meeting her. “Unbelievable that I found a woman. A miracle! She is the most beautiful … specimen in the WORLD,” he wrote. “But that’s not it! It certainly helps, but it’s her mind, her joy in life, and she thinks this beaten junkie is the guy she loves.”
In December 2022, the couple celebrated their 39th wedding anniversary (and Richards’ 79th birthday) by recreating the kiss they shared at their 1983 wedding, with Hansen wearing the same dress from their wedding.
Hansen reflected on how she and her husband made their relationship last in a 2010 interview Vogue.
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Patti Hansen and Keith Richards. Bruce Glikas/FilmMagic Keith Richards’ five children: Everything you need to know
“Any marriage, Rolling Stone or not, there are bound to be rocky mountains,” she said. “We’ve had our trials; that’s for sure. But overall, it’s great. We both have the same morals and backgrounds. We both come from working-class families. I think we’re very similar in many ways.” Richards and Hansen have two children, Theodora Richards and Alexandra Richards.
Keith also has three children with model Anita Pallenberg: sons Marlon Leon Sundeep Richards, 54, Dandelion Angela Richards, 51, and Tara Jo Jo Gunne Richards, who died of sudden infant death syndrome two months after birth.
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