The Mitchell sisters were charged and appeared at Bow Street Court where they were bound over for a year and ordered to pay £25 costs. Offers to appear topless in Cabaret poured in, but Marion said, “I don’t want to make a career out of boobs’ and in 1966 changed her name to Janie Jones and had a minor hit with the number ‘Witches Brew.’

In 1967 she was charged with attempting blackmail after allegedly threatening a man with exposure for participating in sex orgies. She was acquitted. Later the same year she was charged with running a brothel, but was acquitted again. For a time she married singer John Christian Dee, basically as a publicity stunt to promote their act as the duo Adam & Eve, but it didn’t work out.

She was brought to trial once more as a result of a News of the World story in June, 1971 which accused her of being involved in a sex payola scandal. She was sentenced and sent to Holloway Prison. She was freed in April 1977 and spent some time nursing another sister, Beatrice, who tragically died of cancer.

The sisters were miner’s daughters from Seaham in County Durham and Janie had won a clog-and-tap-dancing competition at the age of five. She left school at 15, worked in a hospital for a time, and then became a dancer at the Woolwich Empire before taking a job as a Windmill Girl.