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Hell’s Angels Plotted to Kill Mick Jagger, Agent Says
By Mike Nizza
Mick Jagger (Photo: Rich Schmitt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Image)
The death of Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old black man who clashed with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang guarding a rock-concert stage while The Rolling Stones played “Under My Thumb,” spelled the end of the cultural phenomenon that was the 1960’s, according to many observers. But it also led to an assassination plot against Mick Jagger, according to a former F.B.I. agent who is featured in an upcoming BBC report.
In the aftermath of the ugly incident at the Altamont Speedway in California, which was famously captured on film by documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, the Stones did not use the Hell’s Angels for security again, and did not support them in the finger-pointing that followed Mr. Hunter’s death. A group of the bikers were evidently outraged enough to want to kill Mr. Jagger, so they set out for his vacation home in the Hamptons, according to Mark Young, the former F.B.I. agent.
“A group of them took a boat, and were all tooled up and planned to attack him from the sea,” Tom Mangold, the host of the BBC program featuring Mr. Young, told The Sunday Telegraph. “They planned the attack from the sea so they could enter his property from the garden and avoid security at the front.”
Fortunately, it turned out that the tough guys on land had shaky sea legs, a poor weather eye and not much persistence. “The boat was hit by a storm, and all of the men were thrown overboard,” Mr. Mangold said. “All survived, and there was not said to have been any further attempt on Jagger’s life.”
Mr. Jagger has not commented on the story, which apparently would have been news to him as well: The F.B.I. never told him about the episode, according to The Telegraph.
Had the biker’s alleged mission succeeded, yet another devastating assassination would have been added to a bloody era, and all over a death that was never found to have been a crime.
The police investigation into the death of Mr. Hunter at the concert was said to be active as recently as 2005, when officials in California finally dismissed theories that a second person had stabbed him. The first, Alan Passaro, was acquitted of murder charges in the 1970’s by a jury that decided he had acted in self-defense after Mr. Hunter drew a gun.
Hell’s Angels Plotted to Kill Mick Jagger, Agent Says
By Mike Nizza
Mick Jagger (Photo: Rich Schmitt/Agence France-Presse — Getty Image)
The death of Meredith Hunter, an 18-year-old black man who clashed with members of the Hell’s Angels motorcycle gang guarding a rock-concert stage while The Rolling Stones played “Under My Thumb,” spelled the end of the cultural phenomenon that was the 1960’s, according to many observers. But it also led to an assassination plot against Mick Jagger, according to a former F.B.I. agent who is featured in an upcoming BBC report.
In the aftermath of the ugly incident at the Altamont Speedway in California, which was famously captured on film by documentary filmmakers Albert and David Maysles, the Stones did not use the Hell’s Angels for security again, and did not support them in the finger-pointing that followed Mr. Hunter’s death. A group of the bikers were evidently outraged enough to want to kill Mr. Jagger, so they set out for his vacation home in the Hamptons, according to Mark Young, the former F.B.I. agent.
“A group of them took a boat, and were all tooled up and planned to attack him from the sea,” Tom Mangold, the host of the BBC program featuring Mr. Young, told The Sunday Telegraph. “They planned the attack from the sea so they could enter his property from the garden and avoid security at the front.”
Fortunately, it turned out that the tough guys on land had shaky sea legs, a poor weather eye and not much persistence. “The boat was hit by a storm, and all of the men were thrown overboard,” Mr. Mangold said. “All survived, and there was not said to have been any further attempt on Jagger’s life.”
Mr. Jagger has not commented on the story, which apparently would have been news to him as well: The F.B.I. never told him about the episode, according to The Telegraph.
Had the biker’s alleged mission succeeded, yet another devastating assassination would have been added to a bloody era, and all over a death that was never found to have been a crime.
The police investigation into the death of Mr. Hunter at the concert was said to be active as recently as 2005, when officials in California finally dismissed theories that a second person had stabbed him. The first, Alan Passaro, was acquitted of murder charges in the 1970’s by a jury that decided he had acted in self-defense after Mr. Hunter drew a gun.
