"It is with deep sadness that we announce the death of the singer, songwriter and actress Marianne Faithfull," a statement provided to USA TODAY read. "Marianne passed away peacefully in London today,

Marianne Evelyn Gabriel Faithfull was born in Hampstead on 29 December 1946. Her mother was Baroness Eva Sacher-Masoch, a Hungarian, half-Jewish former ballet dancer who had fled the Nazis in World War II.

Long after time with Mick Jagger in the “Swinging London" of the 1960s, Faithfull endured as a torch singer and survivor of the lifestyle she once embodied.