Jerry Hall takes a swipe at Jagger
It looks like Sir Mick Jagger has reason to worry about his former wife Jerry Hall’s impending autobiography. In an interview in this month's V magazine, the Texan-born model and actress says she intends telling her life story “as honestly and truthfully as possible” and, more worryingly, launched what can only be seen as a thinly veiled attack on her philandering ex-husband’s taste for women more than half his age.
The book, as yet untitled and for which she earned a £1m advance, will also deal with 52-year-old Hall’s modeling career and other lovers, among them Bryan Ferry. But she knows that what will attract readers is her account of her life with the Rolling Stones front-man.
A taste of how candid this might be came when she was asked if she’d ever date a toy-boy. To this, she replied: “I personally find having a sexual relationship with people in their twenties incredibly boring. I much prefer older people. And I find it a bit creepy if you’re having sex with people the same age as your children.”
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Ouch! Sixty-five-year-old Jagger’s nine-year marriage to Hall (pictured in V photoshoot) broke down in 1999 after he had an affair with Brazilian model Luciana Morad, who bore his seventh child, Lucas. She was 29 at the time.
In February 2001, when Jagger was 58, he had a fling with supermodel Sophie Dahl, who was then 23. They met through Sir Mick and Hall’s daughter Elizabeth, who was then 16. And in September last year, there was speculation that he had grown close to Molly Miller Mundy, the 23-year-old granddaughter of a friend.
Of her book, to be published by HarperCollins later this year, Hall added: “I’m sure it’s going to upset some people because it just always does. But it’s my life and I’m going to tell it how it was, in a very matter of fact way.”
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