I’m sure this was a meeting of the minds. On Saturday, Prince Harry and Rolling Stone Ron Wood hung out together at a polo match. Ron Wood is probably best known in the gossip world these days for abruptly dumping his wife of 23 years (Jo) for a 19-year-old cocktail waitress. The waitress then dumped him, calling him an “evil goblin king” and Ron then took up with some other young girl, a Brazilian it seems. Prince Harry is best known to the gossip world for being ginger and sexy. The Daily Mail makes it sound like they had just come back from an orgy however:

One’s famous for being a hellraising rock ‘n’ roller, while the other’s known for being one of the more rebellious royals.

Despite coming from very different worlds, perhaps Prince Harry and Ronnie Wood had plenty to talk about thanks to their reputations for being naughty.

In between the Prince’s games at the Asprey World Class Polo match in Surrey yesterday, the two men crossed the generation gap to share a joke together.

The 25-year-old royal was playing polo to raise money for his charity Sentebale but lost his match to the Belstaff team. The Rolling Stone, 63, was strictly a guest, enjoying the matches and food on offer. Dressed in a bright coloured shirt and stripy jacket, the rocker kept close to his Brazilian polo coach girlfriend Ana Araujo, 30.

After mingling with the young royal, Wood headed for the fish stand in the dining area and kept his celebrity friends entertained by toying with one of the dead creatures on ice.

[From The Daily Mail]

The way Ron is looking at Harry, I think Ron’s thought process seems to be one of the following:

A) “Am I hallucinating?”
B) “He’s so pretty! KISS HIM.”
C) “I bet if I stand here for a few minutes, I can get his cast-offs!”
D) “To the orgy, Your Royal Highness?”

I enjoy this one too, just because it seems like Prince Harry is on the run from the fashion police who want to confiscate whatever is in all of those lovely shopping bags.

In my mind, this is exactly how Prince Harry looks right before he asks you if you’d like some cunnilingus before the Jacuzzi. I mean, that’s the face, right?

And this is his face after you’ve said yes.

Ah, Prince Harry. I love this kid so much. So hot. So brooding. He’s trying to remember where the post-polo orgy is being held.

Photos courtesy of WENN, July 17, 210.

Wonder of wonders, miracle of miracles: legendary boozer Keith Richards has given up alcohol after seeing the complete train wreck of a life his band-mate Ronnie Wood has made for himself. Sources say that Richards, who famously was so drunk that he didn’t remember composing the guitar lick for the Rolling Stones’ signature song “Satisfaction,” is now retracting his previous vow to drink until the end of his life, thanks to Ron Wood’s non-stop drunken tour of elderly embarrassment that included an affair with a woman young enough to be his grand-daughter.

Keith Richards hasn’t touched a drop of alcohol for over four months, despite previously vowing to drink forever after outliving several doctors who had told him to give up it up.

But four years ago Richards, who has a face like a crinkle cut chip, suffered a brain haemorrhage after he fell out of a palm tree on an alcohol soaked holiday with Wood. And now he’s determined not to end up like Wood, who’ll be partying with The Saturdays and Amelle Berrabah by the end of this week.

A source said:

“He has always quite enjoyed the fact that he seemed to be able to carry on drinking as much as he liked with no real negative impact on his health.

“But he has watched Ronnie fall well and truly off the wagon last year and he doesn’t like what he sees. Plus he has started to feel for the first time like it might do him some good to give up the booze for a while.”

[From Holy Moly]

This whole situation with Ron Wood is kind of fascinating to me. It seems like everyone else around him is learning a valuable life lesson. His long-suffering wife, Jo, has learned that her life is much better without him. His now-ex-girlfriend, Katia Ivanova, is learning that she likes being the former girlfriend of “Grandpa Punchy (TM Kaiser),” because it gets her magazine spreads and TV appearances. And Keith Richards has finally woken up to the fact that an old drunk just isn’t cool – even if that old drunk is wearing leather pants. This is pretty big news. I mean, we’re talking about a guy who allegedly snorted his dad’s cremated remains. I guess the next question is: when will Ron Wood himself learn something?

Ekaterina Ivanova, the 21-year-old waitress who had an 18-month fling with 62-year-old Rolling Stone guitarist Ronnie “Evil Goblin King” Wood is really stretching her fifteen minutes. Last month, the aspiring artist gave a long, rambling interview to Hello! magazine with a weird fashion pictorial spread. She’s also one of the “stars” appearing in the British version of “Celebrity Big Brother,” a hit reality show. I think calling her a celebrity is a bit of a stretch, don’t you? She’s a groupie. Case closed. Now, she’s blabbing to the Daily Mail about how she and Ronnie went on alcohol and cocaine binges within hours of their first meeting. Classy!

Ekaterina Ivanova just can’t seem to keep her mouth shut.

After breaking her silence on her 18-month relationship with ex-Rolling Stone lover Ronnie Wood just weeks after they split, the 21-year-old former waitress has revealed even more about the man she called an ‘evil Goblin King’.

And she now claims that she indulged in a cocaine binge with the guitarist at a London hotel just hours after they met.

Last night she joined 10 other C-listers and actress Stephanie Beacham as one of the contestants of Celebrity Big Brother.

But before she went into the house, which is guaranteed to give her even more publicity, she spoke to The Sun about life with the ageing rock star and alleged he gave her cocaine on the first night they met.

Russian-born Ekaterina, also known as Katia, spoke about meeting Wood when she was waitress at a London bar called Churchill’s in the summer of 2008 – and how the evening turned into an all-nighter.

She said Ronnie, 62, had come into the club with a huge entourage so she went to talk to him but was unaware of who he was.

She said: ‘I sat next to him with a cigarette and dropped some ash on his trousers. He said, “You’ve ashed on my trousers”. I looked him up and down and said, “I don’t give a f**k”. He just went, “I love you”. Basically I was rude, he was kind of sleazy and we kind of bounced off each other.’

Then she claimed that some of them went to the Hempel Hotel in west London where they stayed up all night doing cocaine and drinking.

She added: ‘I don’t know whose coke it was but it just appeared on the table and Ronnie did some and so did I. Maybe four of five lines.

‘I ended up passing out in his bed, but we spent the next two days together. It was very touchy feely but nothing happened between us. I did fancy him. I liked arrogant guys in bands with tight jeans and he was the ultimate guy in a band.’

Not long after they met, in the July that year, Ronnie entered rehab for his drinking but rather than go back to his family, he returned to Ekaterina as soon as he got out.

She said after renting a flat together in north London they fell ‘madly in love’ and spent many months sober, drinking hot chocolate and talking about marriage and kids.

Ekaterina said: ‘We spoke about getting married. If his divorce had come through we might have just got married there and then.

‘And we talked about babies. We’d mess around and say that if we had a boy we’d call him Ivan Ivanova Wood and if we had a girl it could be Holly Wood.’

But she said the relationship soon became doomed after he started drinking again and at his worse would drink a litre bottle of spirits a day, take cocaine and smoke up to 50 cigarettes.

She said: ‘He would never drink in the morning if I was around. But if I went out, I’d come back and find him drunk. I tried reasoning with him, nagging him, taking him to AA meetings.

‘Nothing stopped him for longer than a couple of weeks.’

And she said that she soon stopped Ronnie, who ended up repulsing her with his bad boozy breath.

She said: ‘It started off really exciting. His body is very good for his age and he was very youthful in bed. But towards the end it got into a routine, especially as he was always drunk.

‘He’d try it on with me and his breath smelt of rum, which I hated. Sometimes I’d go through the motions but sometimes I’d just push him off. I’d stopped fancying him.’

[From The Daily Mail]

Does anyone really want to hear anymore about this vomitrocious relationship? I certainly don’t. She willingly handled old-man-testicles in exchange for coke, booze, trips and a rock and roll lifestyle. Now she’s trying to parlay that into a career. Whatever. Are we supposed to feel sorry for her? It’s not like Ronnie put a gun to her head and forced her to do some blow and down the booze. While I think his abuse of her is deplorable, I will reserve any sympathy – if at all – for Ron’s long suffering wife, Jo. The well-publicized affair with this teenage waitress was the final straw for her, and she seems a lot happier these days, now that Ron is someone else’s problem. If Ekaterina wants to be famous in her own right, good for her. But rehashing her gross fling with a drunk old man can only get her so far.

I’m not sure why Hello! magazine thought anyone would care, but they have an exclusive new interview and photo shoot with the young waitress who had been dating Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood – that is, until he tried to choke her in the street, got arrested for assault and then dumped her. Ekaterina Ivanova, who Hello! says is 21 but other outlets say is 20, gave some amusing details on her weird relationship with Wood, and why it’s over. Ivanova states the obvious: Wood is a drunken old man who needs more of a babysitter than a girlfriend. But she also has some unintentionally hilarious stories about him, including his attempt to surprise her with a birthday cake in a restaurant, where he was too wasted to sing the words to “Happy Birthday.”

“The whole thing started off as a fairytale. But then it felt like an evil fairytale. When Ronnie and I moved into a tower, my friends were laughing and saying I was like the princess trapped in the tower. He went all Jekyll and Hyde. I’d be trapped there with an evil goblin king.”

…she is far from the “devastated” young woman some reports have suggested. “I feel like I’ve got myself back,” said the Russian-born artist with a perfect English accent. “I feel reborn. I didn’t realize how drowned I was in the whole situation until I got out of it.”

What attracted you to him?
I’ve always liked guys in bands, skinny and rugged, and he was the ultimate one to me. I was attracted by the fact that he was a musician and painted. I thought he looked like he had lived, but he had lovely hair and was quite trim, quite manly…He was very friendly and charming and could make you feel really special.

You must have realized there was a big age gap…
I didn’t think about it. He acts so young. When we met, it was like we were the same age. And he stayed there, while I’ve grown into a woman.

What was life like with Ronnie? Was he romantic?
We had amazing times, it wasn’t all bad. At first, I liked going on nice holidays and stuff. He surprised me with a holiday to Rome when I woke up one day. Then, one the day of my birthday, he woke me up with champagne and caviar, but the thing is I had a couple of glasses and Ronnie carried on drinking. We went to a restaurant that he booked, and they brought out a really beautiful cake and all the waiters were singing “Happy Birthday.” But he was so drunk, it was really awkward.

It has been suggested that you are a “gold-digger…”
I’m not materialistic at all. I’m now living in a small flat with friends and loving it. I like getting on the tube and all those things.

I wanted to go backpacking around South America and Ronnie said, “No girl of mine goes backpacking. I started thinking about the future and I thought, I really want to meet someone and experience things together, like saving up for a mortgage.

Did Ronnie’s drinking get worse towards the end of your relationship?
Not worse, I just think he couldn’t handle it so well. Even if he wasn’t nasty, he would start repeating the same jokes and I found them really irritating.

So you drank a lot together?
When we first met, I drank a lot, but then I just couldn’t keep up. He would sit there and drink and I wouldn’t feel the need to. I would say, “You can carry on drinking, but all you are doing is pushing me away.”

Why did things go wrong? Was it the drink?
Yes, and another main cause is that I grew up. I grew out of him. I just thought, “What is the point of being with an older man if he acts about 12? He was like a child with tantrums when he was drunk, throwing water bottles and doing impressions of my voice. It was like trying to keep a child under control.

…Did you start to understand how Jo might have felt?
I have a lot of respect for Jo now, because he’s a handful. I don’t know how she did it. I couldn’t. She seems to be better off without him, way happier. But who can he live with if she can’t do it and I can’t do it?

[From Hello! Magazine, print edition, December 21, 2009]

I already thought Ron Wood was a pathetic mess before. But when a 21-year-old girls outgrows you and thinks you’re childish- you’ve got some serious issues. I hope that both women are done with this old fool, and his next stop is a real, inpatient rehab facility. And let’s hope this is the last we hear from this little girl – at least, on this topic. I have a feeling she is going to wind up on one of those British reality shows, though. Based on the photo spread that goes along with the interview, she certainly likes to have her picture taken.

The long, weird, inappropriate roller coaster ride for Ronnie Wood, 62, and his 20-year-old girlfriend, cocktail waitress Ekaterina Ivanova, has ended. Here’s the full scoop for those who may have forgotten, what with all the other high profile cheaters of the past year clogging up your short-term memory: Wood told his long-suffering wife, Jo, that he was attending alcohol rehab, but really, he was shacking up in the couple’s country estate and boozing it up with Ivanova, who was barely 18 at the time. Classy! Jo caught wind of the affair, and shortly after, filed for divorce, which was just finalized last month. Flash forward 18 months: Wood, who has earned the awesome nickname of “Grandpa Punchy” from our very own Kaiser, was recently picked up for domestic assault after beating up Ekaterina in the street, and the couple are now dunzo.

It was never going to be a great love story. So after 18 stormy months of rows and recriminations, Ronnie Wood has ended his affair with a waitress more than 40 years his junior.

The Rolling Stones guitarist, 62, broke up with Russian girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova, 20, days after he was arrested for allegedly assaulting her in a row in the street.

They made up briefly but Wood, who left his wife of 23 years for Miss Ivanova, has now decided it is over for good.

And the news comes from none other than his former wife, Jo.

Speaking exclusively to the Mail at her Surrey mansion, where she has created a ‘pop-up’ restaurant called Mrs Paisley’s Lashings, Mrs Wood was quick to point out that Miss Ivanova’s exit did not mean she and Ronnie would get back together.

‘I was very upset to hear about what happened last week and I’ve spoken to Ronnie,’ she said.

‘In fact, I called him after he came out of the nick to see how he was coping and he told me not to worry and that he’s going to be OK.

‘But he said he has split up with that girl for good. It’s over. He won’t be going back to her. There’s no going back for him, he’s adamant about that.

‘We’re still speaking and he’s been talking with our daughter Leah, too, and told her the same thing.

‘But before people ask or assume that we might be getting back together, we’re not. Absolutely not. I’m very happy being single at the moment and I’m enjoying life.’

Mrs Wood plans to sell the lavish £2million Surrey home she shared with Ronnie to move to a pied a terre in London.

She added: ‘I’ve decided to sell the house here and move out and I’m looking to buy a lovely flat in town, close to all the parties and so I can be near to my friends.

This house has so much history and so many memories for me but it’s time for someone else with a big family to enjoy it.

‘My kids are getting older and I don’t want to be rattling around here on my own.’

Miss Ivanova, spotted this week sitting alone at a Chinese restaurant in Holborn, Central London, is believed to be ‘devastated’ at the break-up.

She is staying with her mother after leaving Wood’s rented Surrey home. She told police she did not wish to press charges against Wood, who allegedly tried to throttle her in the street during a row in the early hours of last Thursday.

At one point, it was alleged, he threatened to stub his cigarette out on her face and onlookers claimed they saw him screaming abuse and dragging her along the ground.

Wood was arrested and spent the night in a cell at Staines police station before being released on bail. He is due to return to the station in January.

Friends of the guitarist, who is known for his long-running battle with alcohol, have claimed he is ‘most definitely’ drinking again.

One told the Daily Mail that Wood and his girlfriend had an ‘extremely volatile relationship’, with Miss Ivanova mocking him about his age and arguing constantly about his family.

In September, police were called following another row in which Miss Ivanova is said to have threatened suicide after Wood planned to have a family dinner with his wife.

The Woods ended their marriage in July last year when Ronnie’s affair with Miss Ivanova was made public.

Jo Wood was devastated by the break-up, but after years of looking after Ronnie on the rock and roll circuit, she realised it could be a chance to change her life.

She went on to appear on the BBC’s Strictly Come Dancing. The couple, who have two grown-up children, were divorced last month.

[From The Daily Mail]

Can I just say, “Go, Jo!” So happy for her. I do hope that Jo stands her ground and doesn’t let Ronnie weasel his way back into her life. This geezer sounds like a nightmare to live with – a perpetual child with a whole host of substance abuse problems who cannot seem to accept that he’s not a 20-year-old rock god anymore. The only thing that sucks about this whole thing is that the 20-year-old girlfriend wasn’t the one who did the dumping. He beats the crap out of her and then dumps her? That ain’t right.

Rolling Stones’ guitarist Ronnie Wood, 62 years old, was arrested last night on “suspicion of assault in connection with a domestic incident”. Basically, he beat up his 20-year-old girlfriend, Ekaterina Ivanova. Ivanova got together with Wood when he was still married to his wife of 24 years, Jo Woods, and that was back when Ivanova was literally a teenager. I think the story was that she was a waitress, and she waited on Wood in more ways than one. Anyway, Jo took Ronnie to the cleaners in the divorce, but Ronnie probably is still sitting on a sizable estate. That I’m sure his 20-year-old girlfriend wants to get her hands on. But not if Ronnie is going to beat the crap out of her.

Ronnie Wood of the Rolling Stones was released on bail Thursday after being arrested for possible assault in southern England, police and his spokesman said.

Police in Surrey said a 62-year-old man from the town of Esher was arrested Wednesday night on suspicion of assault in connection with a domestic incident on Claygate High Street, south of London.

Police said he was bailed out on Thursday and he will face further inquiries in January. They did not release any details about the incident.

“I can confirm that there was an incident last night and that Ronnie Wood was arrested,” said David Rigg, Wood’s spokesman. “He has since been released on police bail.”

Wood’s private life has been in turmoil for more than a year since he started a relationship with Russian Ekaterina Ivanova. That led to his divorce last month by Jo Wood, his wife of 24 years, on the grounds of adultery. He and Wood have two children together.

Wood has been a guitar stalwart of the Rolling Stones, one of the world’s longest-running and most popular rock bands. In recent years he has also found some success as an artist, selling his paintings in numerous galleries.

His romantic troubles have provided ample fodder for Britain’s tabloids, who frequently print photographs of the craggy, aging rocker cavorting with his young Russian girlfriend.

[From Huffington Post]

Little girl, it might be time to pack it in with Grampa Punchy. I don’t care if he has more money than God, he can’t get it up anymore, he’s always drunk and you’re convinced he’s going to kick the bucket at any moment – when he starts hitting you, it’s time to go. My guess is that Ronnie was three sheets to the wind, and he probably slapped Ekaterina around and she called the cops. I wonder if she’ll even end up pressing charges in the long run – I doubt it. I mean, she should, but I doubt she will. She wants to get paid too.

As the saying goes, there’s no fool like an old fool. That’s certainly the case with 60-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood, who attended the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremony this weekend with his 20-year-old girlfriend, Ekaterina Ivanova. Ekaterina and Ron started their relationship while Ron was still married to his wife of 23 years, Jo, and the guitarist was in the throes of a weeks-long drinking bender. Ekaterina was a cocktail waitress at the bar in Ireland where Ron was sousing it up for days on end. While his wife, Jo, thought he was in rehab for alcohol abuse, Ron was hooking up with then-19-year-old Ekaterina. Since leaving his wife for the girl, he has been off the wagon in a major way. Perhaps that’s why he thought it was in good taste to take Ekaterina as his date to the Hall of Fame ceremony.

Rolling Stone Ron Wood attended Saturday’s Rock and Roll Hall of Fame ceremonies with his new girlfriend Ekaterina Ivanova, 20.

Wood and the former waitress have been together since last summer, as he divorces his wife of 23 years Jo, but this weekend was their first outing at a public event.

The Woods have two children, 30-year-old Leah and 25-year-old Tyrone.

[From Huffington Post]

What is there to say about a man who dates a woman younger than his own kids? Ekaterina has been alive for less time than Ron Wood was married to his long-suffering wife. Multiple sources say Jo managed Ron’s business finances for years, so she knows exactly what he’s worth. Rumor has it that Jo Wood is going for the legal jugular in the divorce case after being so publicly humiliated by her husband. And according to reports, Ekaterina sure likes it when grandpa Ron buys her expensive gifts- including a guitar played by Jimi Hendrix worth more than £13,000. Looks like Ronnie is going to get bankrupted coming and going – I sure hope this new young thing is worth it!

Ron and Jo Wood at their daughter’s wedding right before they split on 6/21/08. Credit: WENN

Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood’s long suffering wife, Jo, is mad as hell and she’s hitting her estranged husband where it hurts: his wallet. When Ron, 61, publicly humilated Jo this summer by taking up with a 19-year-old cocktail waitress while he was supposed to be in rehab for alcohol, he basically opened himself up to an all-out war – and now, it looks like that’s what he’s getting, to the tune of 50 million pounds or $92 million USD.

Ronnie Wood faces a £50million divorce pay-out after his wife Jo called in lawyers in exasperation at his continuing relationship with a Russian 20-year-old.

Friends have revealed how humiliated Jo has taken legal advice about the break-down of her 23-year marriage and is understood to have been told she is in a ‘terrifically strong position’.

Apart from taking half of Wood’s £75 million fortune in the split, Jo, 53, is also believed to be angling for a portion of the Rolling Stones guitarist’s future earnings since she has consistently saved his career from disappearing into a haze of drink and drugs.

The revelation came as Wood, 61, was photographed enjoying a romantic meal with young Russian Ekaterina Ivanova at the fashionable London restaurant Locanda Locatelli…

Wife Jo is now understood to be gunning for up to half his fortune, plus as much as a further 20 per cent on top of that for the years of work she has put in as his executive assistant.

Jo has proven indispensable to him over the years he has spent in the band.

She has gone on every tour with him since they first met, picking out his outfits and cooking him organic food.

She has also been pivotal in his business success. She has a controlling stake in the couple’s finances and acts as her husband’s personal management assistant on deals.

She is also a joint director of his music empire Rockyarch and company secretary of Wood’s paintings business Scream Art.

The couple have a range of enormous homes around the world, including a £12 million mansion in Kingston upon Thames, a castle in Clane, County Kildare worth £4.5 million and a £250,000 cottage in Devon….

Wood’s relationship with Miss Ivanova shows no signs of slowing down. He currently appears to be spending most of his time with Katia at the flat he rents in Hampstead, north London.

He has already moved many personal possessions— including his easels and art equipment—from his marital home in Kingston to his new flat.

A friend added: ‘Everyone has painted Kat as a wild child but she was supporting Ronnie through rehab. She is committed to helping him remain sober…

‘I know Jo was hoping he would dump Katia and return home but that is not going to happen.’

[From The Daily Mail]

The nausea-inducing line in this article: “Between courses Ekaterina affectionately cupped Wood’s face in her hands. She then lovingly spoon-fed him ice-cream.” Blech! I can’t imagine cupping that face in my hands. That whole scene must have looked like some young girl feeding her grandpa his dessert. When are these old men going to learn that sticking your wrinkled, 60-year-old penis into a 20-year old does not, by default, make you a 20-year-old again? It’s completely pathetic and a total cliche. And Jo deserves every penny.

Earlier this week, we told you the whole sordid story about Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood’s drunken tryst with a 19 year old cocktail waitress. The 61-year-old ditched his wife of 23 years to party with the teen instead of entering rehab for his two-vodka-bottle-a-day drinking habit. Now, after much urging from family and friends, the rocker has agreed to enter rehab and seek treatment.

Ronnie Wood entered a rehabilitation facility Wednesday for help with alcoholism, said a spokeswoman for the Rolling Stones guitarist.

“Following Ronnie’s continued battle with alcohol he has entered a period of rehab,” the spokeswoman said on condition of anonymity as required by her agency. “His close family and friends say he is seeking help and look forward to his recovery.”

Wood, 61, has fought a long battle with alcoholism during his rock ‘n’ roll career, which started in the 1960s when he played with the band The Faces.

His spokeswoman didn’t release any details about the treatment he will receive or the clinic that he entered.

The craggy guitarist had seemed to be in good health in recent years. He has developed a strong second career as an artist, selling his paintings at some of London’s respected art galleries.

But he has been the focus of feverish recent newspaper reports about his resuming drinking.

[From The Huffington Post]

No word on whether or not Wood ended his relationship with his young enabler, 19-year-old Ekaterina Ivanova, whom he met in a bar in Ireland. But something tells me that if he’s cleaning himself up, the party must be over. At least he’ll be sober when he appears in divorce court.

Ronnie Wood is shown out in London on 5/14/08. Credit: WENN

Ronnie Wood and his wife Jo Wood at their daughter’s wedding on 6/21/08. Credit: Daniel Deme / WENN
He’s a bit too old to chalk this one up to the oft-used excuse of “mid-life crisis.” Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood, 61, has left his wife and four children to take up with a 19-year-old cocktail waitress he met in Ireland while attending a premiere party for the Rolling Stones concert film, “Shine A Light.” The rocker is so taken with the teen that he even painted nude portraits of her that are now on display in a gallery near his Irish retreat. Ron’s wife, Jo, has been with Wood for 23 years and is not taking the news very well at all. The couple were having problems prior to the 19-year-old due to Ron’s excessive drinking. Jo wanted her husband to seek treatment after he was drinking a rumored 2 vodka bottles a day. So, what does he do? Runs off with a cocktail waitress! Classic.

Wood is set to return from Ireland today with Miss Ivanova, whom he met while drinking as he celebrated the launch of the Stones film Shine a Light in April.

Her former boyfriend has accused Wood of stealing her from him after pursuing her with a series of phone calls and texts. ‘He’s very charming by all accounts. I felt a bit weird about it, but I didn’t think I had to worry about a man of 61 – even if he does have a lot of money.’

Ekaterina is rumoured to be the naked girl in Wood’s painting which is now for sale for £8,000 in a gallery near his Irish mansion.

Entitled Photography Nude 11, it is one of 60 of his paintings on show in Gallery Number One in Dublin – 20 miles from the house in County Kildare to which Wood fled with the teenager.

Gallery staff say the guitarist, who is worth an estimated £70million, has yet to visit his exhibition, preferring to go to the surrounding pubs.

They added that the nude picture had attracted a lot of interest from fans although he has not revealed the identity of the sitter. ‘He rarely does with his muses.’

Wood, who has a long and well-documented addiction to alcohol, left behind his wife Jo and their four children at their home in Kingston upon Thames, Surrey. He is said to be drinking two bottles of vodka a day.

Now the 61-year-old rock star’s wife is said to have ended their 23-year-old marriage over his ‘affair’ with the waitress.

Jo Wood, 53, reportedly left an angry message on his phone while he was on a 10-day bender at his Irish retreat with 18-year-old Ekaterina.

The teenager had even accompanied Wood to rehab where he was being treated for his drink problem.

Miss Ivanova is herself an amateur artist who has illustrated several children’s books and has begged the Stone to help secure her a publishing deal.

Her mother has pleaded with her to return home to London. Irina Ivanova, 48, who works as a housekeeper, moved to Britain six years ago.

She said: ‘I know they had a special sort of relationship. But I didn’t realise to what extent. I thought they only worked together. She said that Ronnie asked her to model for him. He wanted to draw her.’

She added of Wood: ‘What does he think he’s doing? He’s old enough to be her grandfather. He needs to send her back before things get out of control and either she gets hurt or his family do.’

I know that aging rockers leave their wives for younger women all the time-in fact, Ronnie isn’t the first or even the second member of The Rolling Stones to do so. But I still think it’s pretty pathetic. Do these guys think that they will somehow be able to recapture their glory days by frolicking with a girl old enough to be their granddaughter? I’ve got news for you, Ronnie: a 19-year-old’s vagina is NOT the fountain of youth. At the end of the day, you’re still a wrinkled old washed up rock star, most likely with an addiction to viagra and a lot less money to show for your trouble. It’s pretty clear this chick is using him for his money and connections, just as he’s using her to enable his booze habit and feel young again. It’s all rather creepy. And what about the woman who put up with his crap for 23 years and raised his kids? I hope she gets a nice chunk of that $70 mil.

Note by Celebitchy: Ronnie Wood and his wife Jo are shown at their daughter Leah’s wedding just a few weeks ago on 6/21/08. His daughter Leah is 29. While the Daily Mail article MSat quotes here has the cocktail waitress’ age at 18, another article in the Daily Mail lists her as 19. Maybe she just had a birthday. The Daily Mail also has photos of the other woman and she looks as young as she is.