The man once was in the center of Britain's biggest ever sex and security scandal dies at 91. News Souces such as CNN, Guardian reported.
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John Profumo, the former British Cabinet minister whose liaison with a call girl nearly brought down a government, and who spent more than 40 years redeeming himself with unpaid work among London's poor, died after suffering a stroke, an official said Friday. He was 91. (link to CNN)
Tributes have been made to John Profumo, the former conservative minister who resigned in a sensational sex scandal, following his death last night at 91 from a stroke.
He died peacefully at about midnight surrounded by his family, a spokesman for London's Chelsea and Westminster Hospital said. He had been admitted to hospital two days earlier.
The former Conservative secretary of state for war was at the centre of the most sensational political scandal of the 20th century when he was forced to resign from the cabinet for lying to the House of Commons over his affair with call girl Christine Keeler. (Link to Guardian)
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