Stella Assange says her husband Julian Assange will apply to British authorities for leave from Belmarsh Prison to attend the funeral of their friend Vivienne Westwood.
, Stella Assange said she first met Westwood at Julian’s 40th birthday party when he was under house arrest in Norfolk in 2011, and she had remained his friend and supporter “until the end.”
“Vivienne is irreplaceable. She was a huge friend, a great supporter, and it’s an enormous loss,” she said in an interview by phone from Spain, where she spent Christmas with her 91-year-old father as she said she could not visit her husband in prison. “There was so much laughter and she was a very intelligent and curious spirit, she was very creative and they found each other’s company riveting.”
Westwood protests against the extradition of Julian Assange to the US, outside London’s Old Bailey Court in 2020.Stella Assange said she spoke to her husband shortly after the news of Westwood’s death was posted on the designer’s social media feeds and that Assange had provided her with the first quote since he has been in prison.“Vivienne was a Dame and a pillar of the anti-establishment,” Julian Assange said.
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