Maybe this New York ballerina just had sympathy for the devil.
Only three months after Mick Jagger’s fashion designer girlfriend L’Wren Scott committed suicide, a New York-based ballerina sashayed in to comfort the Rolling Stones front-man, according to published reports.
Turns out Melanie Hamrick, 27 — a corps de ballet dancer with the American Ballet Theatre — is the mystery woman who was photographed cuddling with Jagger on a Zurich balcony last week, according to Britain’s Sun newspaper.
“A brief fling,” one of Jagger’s friends sniffed to the paper.
“At this point, Mick has no plans to see Melanie again.”
The rocker and the dancer met just three weeks before Scott tragically hanged herself from a balcony door-handle in her Manhattan condo, the paper reports.
Hamrick, who is 43 years younger than Jagger, had been invited along with her fellow dancers to meet the Stones after one of the band’s tour dates in Tokyo.
“Mick first met Melanie in Tokyo, but it was a very brief encounter as she was with a number of other ballet dancers,” the Jagger pal told the paper.
“They got on well and kept in touch, but it was only ever friendly because Mick was obviously madly in love with L’Wren,” the pal said.
But after L’Wren died, it was Hamrick who came to his emotional rescue.
“After her death, Melanie reached out and they met in New York as friends. There was a spark there and she provided a distraction to the emotional hell he was going through.
“He invited her to Zurich to see the Stones and that’s when things became intimate between them.”
Jagger had dated L’Wren for 13 years; Hamrick, too, had just lost a longtime love, calling off her engagement to Cuban classical dancer José Manuel Carreño earlier this year, the paper reported.
According to an online bio, Hamrick is from Williamsburg, Va., and trained at the Kirov Academy in Washington, DC.
Her busy love life may have interfered with her career of late; in reviewing her recent performances as the fairy “Winter” in Cinderella at the Metropolitan Opera House, the Star Ledger complained Hamrick’s “feet remain lamentably weak.”