New biography details Jagger’s tempestuous romantic life
A new Mick Jagger bio has a story about his time with Carla Bruni, who in 1990 was a smoking-hot young model who met a lot of rock stars.
She and Eric Clapton were an item then, see, but when she met Mick, Eric had a premonition, Christopher Anderson reports in Mick: The Wild Life and Mad Genius of Jagger.
Clapton “begged” Jagger to stay away: “Please, Mick. Not this one. I think I’m in love.”
Fat chance. By 1992 she was seeing both Jagger and Donald Trump, who was also with Marla Maples then. Trump says Carla became “a total pain in the ass” about Marla.
Long story short, the day after Mick’s wife Jerry Hall gave birth to Georgia, in January 1992, Mick and Carla checked into a Thai resort together.
Later Hall found a Carla-to-Mick note: “I’ll be your mistress forever”. There was a confrontation … I just haven’t got space for all this, recounted in the Daily Mail. I think I’ll buy the book. Strange but true: An elderly Briton, Richard Starkey, asked the world to shout “peace and love” at noon last Saturday, to mark his 72nd birthday.
But still, nobody is taking Ringo seriously. He does this annually and claims it is “catching on more and more.” I didn’t do it. Did you? Sophomore slump: Charlie Sheen’s new sitcom Anger Management started well, with 5.74 million viewers for the two-episodes-backto-back debut last month.
Last week’s third episode, however, was seen by 40 per cent fewer people. Not bad, but not great,
The show, on the FX cable network, has a 10-episode deal. Petty theft: How rich, you ask, is Adam Clayton, the bass player for U2? Well, rich enough that when his personal assistant embezzled $3.5 million from him, he didn’t even notice.
In Dublin last week, Carol Hawkins was sentenced to seven years in jail on 181 counts of theft over a four-year period before Clayton caught on.
“Nothing, frankly, could explain away the scale of this dishonesty other than … greed in pursuit of a lavish lifestyle,” said Judge Patrick McCartan.
Lavish enough: luxury vacations for her family, a New York condo, limousine services, a car for her son, and a stable of 22 horses, to name a few items.
Clayton is now in legal action against a financial adviser and a private bank; they should have spotted the thefts, he says. He didn’t bother to go to court for the verdict.
Hawkins is 48. Clayton is 52. Evidence that George Clooney hasn’t sold his soul to the devil, after all: It’s true, something kind of bad finally happened to George.
He and Stacy Keibler are on vacation, from where she Tweeted this:
“Finally had a bad meal in Italy. Our whole dinner party got food poisoning. Oh well, at least I’m still in Italy.”
TMZ.com says the problem arose after a meal at a restaurant in Cernobbio; the manager denied that his place was to blame.