Personal Life
In the 1960s, Stamp shared a flat with actor Michael Caine before and during their rise to fame. In his autobiography, What's it All About, Caine states that he “still wakes up sweating in the night as he sees Terence agreeing to accept my advice to take the role in Alfie”.
Stamp received extensive media coverage of his romances in the 1960s with film stars Julie Christie, Brigitte Bardot and supermodel Jean Shrimpton. His and Julie Christie's romance, and their high profiles during London's "swinging '60s", was at one point thought to be referenced in the Kinks' 1967 song, "Waterloo Sunset", with the lines about "Terry and Julie". He and Jean Shrimpton were one of the most photographed couples of Mod London. It was after Shrimpton ended her relationship with Stamp that he moved to India, spending time in Pune at the ashram of Bhagwan Shree Rajneesh, meditating and studying his teachings, and dropping out from society for several years.
On New Year's Eve 2002, at the age of 64, Stamp married for the first time. His 29-year-old bride was Elizabeth O'Rourke, whom Stamp first met in the mid-1990s at a pharmacy in Bondi, New South Wales. A Eurasian of Australian and Singapore (Indian Singaporean) parentage, O'Rourke was brought up in Singapore before moving to Australia in her early 20s to study pharmacology. The couple divorced on the grounds of his "unreasonable behaviour" in April 2008.
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