Actress and singer Jane Birkin who inspired the famous Birkin bag dies at 76
PARIS (AP) — British actress and singer Jane Birkin, a wild child of the 1960s who became a beloved figure in France, has died in Paris at the age of 76.The French Ministry of Culture said the country had lost a "timeless Francophone icon".Local media reported that she had been found dead in her home, citing people close to her. Birkin suffered a minor stroke in 2021 after suffering from heart problems in previous years.Birkin was best known abroad for her 1969 hit in which she and her then-lover, the late French singer-songwriter Serge Gainsbourg, sang the sexually explicit track…
