Bohemian aristocrat whose home was the scene of legendarily wild parties
Garech Browne, who has died aged 78, was a Guinness heir who held court at Luggala, his gothic revivalist house in Ireland’s Wicklow mountains. House guests included Mick Jagger, Marianne Faithfull, Bono and Michael Jackson.
One visitor in the 1970s recalled seeing naked bodies pressed against the windows in the middle of the day. A male guest once drove a car into a marquee because he felt somebody was paying too much attention to his wife. It was said that if you were judged to be boring, you were never asked back.
If the parties Browne threw were not quite a modern equivalent of the Hellfire Club, they were legendary enough. When asked to account…
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