Keeler was a head turner and and could charm her way through men. By the age of 18 years, she had already mastered the art of being hot property in UK's elite societies. Her mentor Stephen Ward, an osteopath by profession was instrumental in introducing her to rich and powerful.

Stephen Ward was known for escorting beautiful and available girls to elite parties and introducing them to his rich patients.

Others who were felled by her charm included the Pakistani ruler Ayub Khan who quickly foresaw the damage to his his political career from the scandal and rebounded.

The Profumo-Keeler affair was the perfect cocktail of sex, spies and scandal. John Profumo's adrenalin surged when he first saw the curvaceous Keeler bathing naked in a swimming pool in 1961.

Soon, they were deep into a passionate affair. But on the sidelines, Keeler had also hooked Evgeni Ivanov, the official at the Soviet Embassy in London.

Few knew that the whole show was being stage-managed by Ward to supply MI5, the British counterintelligence agency, with information about Ivanov's activities. Ward committed suicide a day before a court was to find him guilty of living off the "immoral'' earnings of Christine Keeler.

The Profumo-Keeler affair lasted only for a few weeks before Keeler spilled the beans to the press in 1962. Profumo was accused of behaviour that had posed a threat to national security and he was forced to resign in June. The affair fired the imagination of people and was turned into a roaring hit 'Scandal' directed by Michael Caton-Jones.