Later Celebrity
She traded on the notoriety the trial brought her, comparing herself to Nelson's mistress, Lady Hamilton. She converted to Judaism and married an Israeli businessman, Rafi Shauli, opening nightclubs and restaurants in Tel Aviv. They were called Mandy's, Mandy's Candies and Mandy's Singing Bamboo. Rice-Davies made a series of unsuccessful pop singles for the Ember label in the mid-1960s, including "Close Your Eyes" and "You Got What It Takes".
A famous Private Eye cover at the time of Profumo had a photograph of "the lovely" Rice-Davies with the caption (without any headline or other identification), "Do you mind? If it wasn't for me – you couldn't have cared less about Rachman".
In 1980, with Shirley Flack, she wrote her autobiography, Mandy. In 1989, she wrote a novel titled The Scarlet Thread. Subsequently, journalist Libby Purves, who had met Rice-Davies when Mandy was published, invited her to join a female recreation on the River Thames of Jerome K. Jerome's comic novel Three Men in a Boat. This expedition was commissioned by Alan Coren for the magazine Punch, the other members of the party being cartoonist Merrily Harpur and a toy Alsatian to represent Montmorency, the dog in the original story. Purves has recounted how she "immediately spotted that this Rice-Davies was a woman to go up the Amazon with" and, among other things, that "only Mandy's foxy charm saved us from being evicted from a lock for being drunk on pink Champagne."
In the 1989 film about the Profumo affair titled Scandal, actress Bridget Fonda portrayed Rice-Davies, alongside Joanne Whalley as Christine Keeler. Rice-Davies has appeared in a number of television and film productions including Absolutely Fabulous and episode 6 of the first series of Chance in a Million.
She once described her life as "one slow descent into respectability".
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