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The quiet, prettiest Ronette, she was the one content to remain in the shadow of younger sister Ronnie because, even in the shadow, some of the spotlight still shines.

For a few years in the mid-1960s, Estelle Bennett lived a girl-group fairy tale -- being photographed for magazine covers with her fellow Ronettes and dating the likes of George Harrison and Mick Jagger.

Along with her sister and their cousin Nedra Talley, she helped redefine rock 'n' roll femininity.

The Ronettes delivered their promises of eternal puppy love in the guise of tough vamps from the streets of New York.

Their slit skirts, heavy mascara and piles of teased hair suggested both sex and danger -- an association revived most recently by Amy Winehouse.

But Bennett's death last week at 67 revealed a post-fame life of illness and squalor that was little-known even to many of the Ronettes' biggest fans.

In her decades away from the public eye, she struggled with anorexi