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“Blanche Blackwell inspired one of Noel Coward’s plays about an upper-crust love triangle. The swashbuckling Hollywood star Errol Flynn wanted to marry her. She was a member of one of Jamaica’s richest families, but she was best known as the mistress and muse of Ian Fleming, the rakish author who was the creator of James Bond. She lived long enough to give business advice to U2’s Bono, whose career was launched by her son Chris Blackwell, the founder of Island Records. ‘She always says, ‘I love men – they make such good pets,’’ he told Tatler magazine.” https://www.independent.co.uk/news/obituaries/blanche-blackwell-mistress-and-muse-of-james-bond-s-creator-a7893731.html