[2] Moving to Los Angeles, she took a job as personal assistant to a vice-president of Universal Pictures and shared a house with Elizabeth Hurley and Julia Verdin.

[1] In 1999, she helped to persuade Sting, Jude Law, Simon and Yasmin Le Bon and Sadie Frost to support an organic picnic in Greenwich.

Zac Goldsmith, editor of The Ecologist, commented that Cunningham was likely to be helping the magazine to hold its own conference on "the real farm crisis".

"[5] In the words of the New Statesman, "The farmers were content to growl their protests while the politicians spun their policy; so Birgit Cunningham took gooey matter into her own hands and – splat!

[8][9] In England, Cunningham revived a relationship with Harry Nuttall, a racing driver from a rich family that she had dated before leaving for California.

Cunningham took her story to the press, and a long feature appeared in the Evening Standard the day before Nuttall's wedding, revealing the birth of their son.

Despite dating him for the nearly two years, including sexual relations, Cunningham retconned in the article that Nuttall "... didn't really register on my Richter scale".

[13] Nuttall's father, Sir Nicholas paid the airfares for a visit to his grandson in the Bahamas in 2005, and in July 2007, a few days before his death, arranged a final meeting.

"[1] In 2011, Cunningham sold her story to the Sunday Mirror that, between late 2003 and the early weeks of 2011, she had sexual relations with Thomas Strathclyde, Conservative Leader in the House of Lords, who had shown in interest in helping with her campaign regarding the CSA.