He wooed Nico, saw Syd Barrett lose his mind and got busted for drugs with the Stones. Now, at 81, Prince Stanislas Klossowski de Rola has become a TikTok sensation
and a lover of women including Marianne Faithfull, Anita Pallenberg and Nico. He resides between a 1,300-year-old castle in Italy, a mountain residence in Switzerland and a summer home in Malibu. And now at the age of 81, Prince Stanislas Klossowski de Rola – popularly known as Stash – is a TikTok darling.
The prince got his start in music alongside Vince Taylor – the ill-fated inspiration for David Bowie’s Ziggy Stardust – whom he met in Paris in 1964, and he forged his friendship with Brian Jones when Taylor and the Stones shared a bill in Paris the following year. He once made music with Jones, which has never been released. “I’ve been looking for the tapes,” he says. “Our music preceded Satanic Majesties and that whole direction of psychedelia the Stones went down.
Then, at the end of 1967, Stash, Syd Barrett and a few friends went on an acid-fuelled trip to the Black Mountains in Wales, a trip that Barrett is said to have never fully recovered from. “I was with him when he went to the other side,” he confesses. “We were on acid together – it’s a weird story.” He likens it to Luis Buñuel’s surrealist film The Exterminating Angel, in which a group of high-society friends find themselves at a dinner party and are inexplicably unable to leave.
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