Marianne Ihlen, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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muse of Leonard Cohen
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Place of Birth: Larkollen, Eastern Norway, Norway
About Marianne Ihlen
- Marianne Christine Stang Ihlen ([m??i'?n? 'il?n]; 18 May 1935 – 28 July 2016) was a Norwegian woman who was the first wife of author Axel Jensen and later the muse and girlfriend of Leonard Cohen for several years in the 1960s.
- She was the subject of Cohen's 1967 track "So Long, Marianne", in which he sang that she "held on to me like I was a crucifix as we went kneeling through the dark".
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