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L'Wren Scott funeral: Mick Jagger leads mourners at private service in LA

Mick Jagger has led mourners in saying goodbye to his girlfriend, L'Wren Scott, at a private funeral in Los Angeles.

About 70 family and close friends are thought to have attended the service amid tight security at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

The 49-year-old fashion designer and former model killed herself at her New York apartment on 17 March.

A spokesman for the 70-year-old Rolling Stones singer said: "A small private gathering of family and close friends attended a funeral service for L'Wren Scott today … The service with blessings and prayers led by Rev Ed Bacon included memories and words of tribute from Mick Jagger, her brother, Randy Bambrough, Justinian Kfoury, Ira M Hammons-Glass and Adam Glassman.

"Poems were shared by Jagger's daughter, Karis, as well as Ellen Barkin. Mick's daughter, Jade, read Psalm 139, and his grandchildren, Mazie and Zak, read Psalm 23. Randy's daughter, Hannah, read Shakespeare Sonnet 18. Will The Circle Be Unbroken was sung by Bernard Fowler with Dave Stewart on guitar."

Scott's high-end fashion label, launched in 2006, was a favourite among Hollywood stars including Nicole Kidman, Olivia Wilde, Tina Fey, Sarah Jessica Parker and Michelle Obama.

But following news of her death it emerged her eponymous label had been experiencing financial problems. Last month the designer cancelled her London fashion week show, citing production delays.

Accounts filed by Scott's LS Fashion Ltd in London revealed the company had liabilities that exceeded assets by £3.5m as of 31 December 2012.

Scott, who got together with Jagger in 2001, designed stage outfits for notable headline performances by the Rolling Stones at Glastonbury and Hyde Park in recent years.

Originally called Luann Bambrough, Scott was brought up as a Mormon in Utah, but changed her name to launch a modelling career in her teens.

Having worked in Paris for a number of years with the likes of Thierry Mugler and Karl Lagerfeld, she returned to the US as a stylist and worked as a wardrobe consultant for films such as Eyes Wide Shut and Ocean's Thirteen.

The Hollywood Forever Cemetery is one of the oldest in Los Angeles and contains memorials to silver screen stars such as Rudolph Valentino and Jayne Mansfield.

Security staff at the funeral reportedly outnumbered mourners at the cemetery gates, which were closed to the public and media, and searched vehicles for cameras.

Jagger, who has described Scott as his "lover and best friend", had been staying in a Beverly Hills hotel since the Rolling Stones cancelled a tour of Australia following the news of her death.

This article was amended on 27 March 2014. An earlier version described Hollywood Forever Cemetery as the resting place of Jayne Mansfield. A cenotaph in memory of Mansfield can be found at Hollywood Forever, but she was buried in Pen Argyl, Pennsylvania.

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