Ella Richards and her boyfriend of five years, the photographer Sascha von Bismarck. His mother, Debbonaire ‘Debbie’ von Bismarck, throws the most extravagant dinner parties at her apartment in Battersea. Sascha’s brother Nikolai goes out with Kate Moss, who’s also Ella’s godmother and model agent boss.
Ella’s parents, Marlon Richards and Lucie de la Falaise in New York, 2002. The couple met in 1992 after a blind date arranged by Anita Pallenberg, Marlon's mother, who had reportedly first noticed de la Falaise on the cover of The couple wed in 1994 and have three children. Ella’s siblings stay out of the spotlight.
Ella’s grandparents, It girl and model Anita Pallenberg and Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards, met through her then boyfriend Brian Jones, a founding member of the band. Pallenberg and Richards were in a relationship from the mid-1960s until 1979, although they never married. The couple shared three children, including Marlon.
Their youngest son died in infancy. Richards went on to have two daughters with his wife Patti Hansen. Pallenberg died in June 2017, aged 75, due to complications from hepatitis C.
Alexandra, 36, left, and Theodora Richards, 37, are Ella’s seriously fashionable aunts. Keith Richards’ daughters from his marriage to wife Patti Hansen, the pair are Marlon’s younger half-sisters. Like Ella, the Richards sisters have dipped their toe into the modelling industry.
The siblings have also dabbled as DJs. Ella’s great-aunt.