Over the weekend, some sites published a few exclusive photos of Mick Jagger on a balcony in Zurich. Jagger was not alone – a young “mystery brunette” was leaning against his back, seemingly kissing the top of his head. You can see the photos here – they’re blurry, and I swear to God, the girl looks like Kristen Stewart. Anyway, some people have freaked out about this. Mick’s long-term girlfriend L’Wren Scott committed suicide on March 17th, not even three months ago and Mick is already “drowning himself” in 20-something biscuit.
L’Wren’s sister Jan Shane issued a statement immediately when the photos were published, saying:
“And people wonder why L’Wren was so depressed? These pictures make me really wonder what Mick is thinking and feeling. His daughter says that he is still heartbroken and so devastated about losing my sister. And then you see these photos he will never change.”
But some of Mick’s friends told the Daily Mirror:
“Some men drown their sorrow in drink. Mick doesn’t drink much but he drowns his sorrows in women…. Of course Mick is still sad over L’Wren but he is working through it and trying to move on with his life. He had a fling – he’s a red-blooded man. But it’s nice to see him enjoying life again.”
Another source says: “He has reverted back to his old ways. This is how he deals with things, even in his 70s. Through good times and bad, the thing that never changes is Mick’s love for women. Sex is like a coping mechanism for him. He grieved hard but Mick is someone who has always loved life and loves women. This is just Mick being Mick and moving on the only way he knows how.”
The Sun says that Mick’s dealings with this young woman weren’t limited to just one night – they met in a club in Zurich, then they spent two days together (the whole weekend). His people have gone to the press with statements like “he’s a single man” and “he’s having some fun.”
So, what do you think? It does make me wonder if L’Wren and Mick really were together when she killed herself. There were stories at the time that Mick had begun to pull away and that they had all but broken up. But I truly believe that the main “reason” for her suicide was her bad financial state and the shame she felt when she knew she was losing her clothing line. But… I don’t believe there was only ONE reason, I think it was a culmination of events and her ill mental health.
I do think there’s something cruel about saying that Mick should feel worse or that the displays of his grief aren’t enough. People grieve in different ways, and not all of those ways are appropriate or socially acceptable. Does it look bad, the fact that he’s drowning his sorrows in lady parts? Yes. But I also don’t doubt that L’Wren’s suicide hit him hard and that he already feels guilty. He did love her, but it was complicated. It’s more complicated than some cut and dry “Mick is a bastard and that’s why L’Wren killed herself.” I don’t know. I doubt he’s in a good place these days.
Photos courtesy of WENN.
I think this was tacky on his part (no way did he show up on a balcony with this girl wearing three different outfits and being all touchy-freely by accident — this is Mick Jagger, he knows how to keep his “canoodling” private when he wants to) but I agree that it’s really unfair to blame him for L’Wren’s death.
^^This^^. He’s been a philanderer his entire life. If he didn’t want that girl seen or those picture published, they wouldn’t have been. To me, it looks more like an unattractive but wealthy 70 year old trying to recapture the illusion of youth.
Well said, Esti.
He doesn’t look particularly happy in those photos.
That’s what I was thinking. That does not look like a man who is partying it up. He looks depressed as hell.
Agreed-looks like he’s phoning himself in…
“This is just Mick being Mick and moving on the only way he knows how.” Oh, well then it´s okay? (Eye Rolling)
He’s always been an ugly pig. Heck if he wasn’t the lead singer of the Rolling Stones he would still be a virgin………….
*fans self *
Blimey, young Mick was freakin sex on legs to me, oh the memories!
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Amen, Jules! And that goes for many others like him.
In that documentary on The Rolling Stones, Mick was beautiful when he was young. I was shocked how beautiful his face was. Gorgeous eyes, amazing hair, beautiful lips and a flirt. I got why the skinny little guy got women past being a rock star.
@als, Completely agree. So many rock stars, or musicians in general wouldn’t get a second look. But put a mic or a guitar in their hands and something happens. Voila they become attractive.
L’wren’s sister needs to stop talking about her….they were estranged for 6 years.
Yes but this was highly inappropriate. He could do that behind closed doors showing some respect (Or to avoid the media backlash) despite the fact he might not have many days left ahead of him.
She gets paid for these stories she does in the DailyMail, all on the death of her sister. Trash she is.
Who the hell are you to tell someone how to live their life????
Please, don’t be a hypocrite, we’re all talking about people we’ve never and probably never will meet. She’s perfectly entitled to express her opinion.
All but blaming Mick for her sister’s death is pretty harsh imo. L’Wren had a multitude of problems, of which Mick was maybe the worst, or just one of many, who knows. But she chose to be with him for years, no one forced her to date the notoriously unfaithful rock star, so I do take issue with her sister’s Mick shaming. It was a tragedy and I do feel for her family though. And even Mick, just because he is shagging randoms doesn’t mean he’s not grieving or in pain as his “friends” suggested in the article. How many non-famous people move on weirdly quickly after grief? It’s not that uncommon, you read about it all the time :”I married my best friend’s husband”, etc. I have never experienced this kind of grief, of course we all want to think we’d be noble and pine away forever, but some people just can’t cope with being alone. Especially men, Mick is not the first guy to do this and he won’t be the last.
I think he can do what he wants. Who are we to judge how he feels? He has no obligation to anyone anymore. Leave him be, I say. L’wren is gone, and while that is very sad, it doesn’t change that fact.
True, but he could and should show a little respect doing so. Just saying. . .
Perhaps. But we don’t actually know the state the relationship was in when she died. So for all we know him and l’wren could have just been friends or in the final stage of a break-up…..or they could have been totally together and mick just wanted random sex. We don’t know the story so I figure until we do, then we shouldn’t be so quick to judge.
L’Wren told a friend that Mick had dumped her just weeks before her death, and right before he took off on tour to disappear away from her. I thought the show of grief was overwrought and over done – more of a PR thing than anything. He wanted to be seen grieving, just like he wanted to be seen with the balcony woman. Not impressed, and not buying any of it. He’s the same narcissistic little rooster he’s always been.
As Mick wrote many years ago ‘Ain’t no hanging matter, ain’t no capital crime’. Great to see support / understanding here as well as inevitable judging.
I see nothing wrong with it. Life is short and why should he wait to date someone just because societal rules put a time frame on when it’s allowed and proper. That’s ridiculous. He can move on when and however he wants to.
YES. Exactly~if anything, her death was a wake up call about exactly how short and how fragile life is. You only get one shot~enjoy it while you can!! “If you know what life is worth, you will look for yours on earth. Now you see the light”~Bob Marley
only a sh*t person would point a finger and say ‘look at that person, they’re not mourning the way I would or I think they should. Shame on them’
how awful of her sister to publicly state that.
I agree. And also, sometimes it’s when you’re at your lowest that you need the company of other people the most. The fact he’s canoodling a girl doesn’t mean he’s not mourning. It could actually mean he is.
Amanda-
I agree 100%
Exactly. Everybody grieves in their own way and on their own schedule.
Absolutely. I find it appalling that her sister would release a statement about this, all but saying he is the reason her sister committed suicide. It’s shameful.
I agree. How dare she? People who are mentally stable don’t kill themselves because their boyfriend isn’t behaving the way they want. The responsibility is L’Wrenn’s, as sad as it is. For her sister to say this is beyond cruel and inappropriate.
People deal with grief in their own manner. L’Wren’s death was tragic and only Mick know knows what the state of their relationship really was at the time of her suicide.
I have never understood the appeal of Jagger. I assume at this point in his life, the ladies flock to him for cash? Does he still carry the cache of Rock Star? Having seen him up close and personal, many years ago, I found nothing remotely attractive about him. Nada.
He absolutely carries the cache of rock star, and a legendary one at that. I really can’t think of any current artist that I can say will have half the career Mick has had. To have that kind of staying power is quite an accomplishment, and requires true talent not the empty flashiness many of today’s singers/musicians.
Nicolette hi
Sweet music to my ears! Mick is still my forever rock idol, I see Jumping Jack Flash in his face, where the lines of ageing are. He still rocks me.
Hey Chris, I go for old school Stones myself. Midnight Rambler (live version especially on Hot Rocks album) is my favorite. He is one of the best frontmen for a rock band ever, lots of charisma for sure. Halford, Morrison, Roth, Bon Scott, Brian Johnson, Ozzy, Axl Rose, Cobain……….. the list goes on and on. They all have/had that certain something and the talent to back it up. Two ingredients lacking with a lot of current bands/singers. Bieber, need I say more.
Yup, he Carries the CA$h of a rock star all right. Don’t think that isn’t the source of appeal for those sweet young things. Damn, that looks like the face of Dorian Gray….
I remember when my grandfather died.
I snuck out the house and spent the night with my then boyfriend. I was blasted by family, but at the time, I just needed to feel loved and remember there was still pleasure left in the world.
Not saying this is what he’s doing but let Mick be Mick.
Grief is different for everyone.
I think it is quite common to need to feel alive in the face of death.
It is different for everybody. My mother died a few months ago. My sister is very upset. I have been an ice queen since the day it happened.
I think every person who has lost someone through suicide at a certain point needs to find an explanation, someone or something to blame, so in a certain way I can understand why L’Wren Scott sister has called out Mick Jagger.
On the other side Mick Jagger has been a cheater during all his life, it would be crazy to pretend this time he was different, they have been together for what? 12? 14 years? I am pretty sure L’Wren knew about all his extra-curricular activities and didn’t mind that much. So it’s unfair to blame him for this lost, he has written a beautiful statement, I think he was truly involved. In the Mick Jagger way.
It’s his life. End of.
The only person responsible for L’Wren’s suicide is L’Wren.
Thank you!! That was my thought exactly.
Not saying L’Wren was an example of this, but I have zero sympathy for women who kill themselves or attempt to over the lagging (or lacking) affections of a man.
True. But it’s not his first SO who committs suicide. If I were in his shoes I would try to understand why, if an explanation exists.
C’mon, he’s not a bloody monster. THE rock star for 50 years? Being Mick freakin Jagger all that time? Christ, I’m surprised the guy’s story isn’t ten times more lurid than it is. Even Keith Richards admits that being Mick Jagger isn’t easy!.
I am more shocked that a twenty something would be sleeping with this old raisin! You really have to wonder if he was just a regular guy, would she have any interest in him? I highly doubt it!!
So the grief police is at it again. I just hate it, when people are judged for not grieving enough. Everyone deals with loss in different ways and there isn´t right or wrong. Just because he has a fling with another woman or a fun night out with friends or whatever, doesn´t mean that he is not grieving anymore or forgot about her.
But I can understand that it´s insensitive to her family and friends to see these pictures in the papers. I guess, he could have made more of an effort to keep it under wraps.
Different people cope different ways with grief, not always in traditionally socially acceptable ways. It’s truly none of our business. I feel icky reading about this type of gossip (though yes i still read it, shame on me).
I was dating again 6 months after my beloved husband died. I think a lot of people imagine if their partner died it would be years before the could face dating again, but ime that’s rarely the case. Almost all the other widowers I’ve met started dating again in the first year.
I was certainly still grieving, but I was also lonely and (tmi) pretty sexually frustrated. And mostly I just felt I had to take the leap otherwise I was going to be stuck in my grief forever. It was all a bit messy for a while, but I’m glad I just went for it instead of waiting for some future time when it didn’t hurt so much, because a decade on and a lovely new husband later, it still hurts just the same and I could easily go back to wallowing in grief even now. You just have to get on with life because if you just keep waiting to feel ok again you’ll be waiting a very long time.
I say good for you. While I’m sure it still hurts, the one who is widowed is not the one who is dead, and you should not be forced to behave as such due to others expectations of a mourning period. As for her sister all but blaming her death on him, it’s cruel. It is never the fault of anyone else when one decides to take their own life.
Great post from someone who experienced loss of a mate, not just judging form the outside looking in.
Mick Jagger has always been a horndog with women. When he is in his 90’s, he will still have girls chasing him. Money and fame will make ANY man attractive to certain kinds of women. I’m more surprised Jagger waited this long before getting papped with a new hookup.
He is not to “blame”. Suicide is far more complicated.
But this is definitely tacky and gross…which is actually the definition of Mick Jagger in the dictionary. *eye roll*
Men deal with break-ups in a different way than women do. Surprise! If another woman/women makes him get over his pain, good for him. I would say the same if the gender were reversed.
Dwelling on your grief helps nobody, it’s better to find closure so you can fondly remember that person instead maybe turning it into a longterm depression.
First of all, Mick was not faithful during his 13-year relationship with L’Wren. I’m not saying he was cheating all the time, but she understood the deal and he was discreet when it happened. He has never been faithful to any woman and Jerry Hall accepted it and it was understood in their relationship until it was in her face and he got someone pregnant. She to this day is on friendly terms with him and adores him, but says she’s happy not to be married to him anymore.
L’Wren accepted this. So to think after she died he would live like a monk and be alone is not even believable of Mick. He doesn’t look happy in those pics, though. A lot of men cannot be alone. Mick has never been alone. He is a health nut and not a heavy drinker. He doesn’t do drugs and hasn’t for years. I believe women for occasional companionship is exactly what he would do, like many men would. My father adored my mother but he was a mess alone, and I mean a mess. By six months it bothered me he was looking at women at the church. My brother wasn’t and said dad will die living alone. He’s lonely. That’s not uncommon. My father did die a year later.
Mick is not someone who shares his feelings. And he’s British, not a touchy-feely man about his emotions. Nor is he the type to even want to feel the brunt of those feelings, grief, pain, loss, and would want to quash them. Liam Neeson used a lot of alcohol and probably women far earlier then we know for occasional companionship. Mick is the type that will be with women and not be alone for seven days a week, month after month, dealing with his grief and loneliness.
My aunt who lost my uncle, told me over the years many women or men in her social circle have lost spouses. She said the men tend to move on much sooner and don’t do well alone. She said one man, who was married for years and loved his wife, met a woman and married two months after on the rebound and wouldn’t even talk about his wife, that it was too painful for him. His adult kids were upset, but she said it was his way of coping, that he closed off from the pain not that he didn’t love her.
I have no doubt that Mick is grieving and I have no doubt he will run from the pain and will spend time with women to combat the loneliness. He and L’Wren were together for 13 years. To think he didn’t love her or is not affected by this is not believable. I try not to be too judgmental on how people grieve.
Well said. He was clearly devastated by L’wren’s death, if this is how he copes or moves on now that she’s gone and he’s getting on in years then that’s his business.
I don’t believe his relationship with L’Wren Scott lasted 13 years. I think it was more like 7.
They began dating in 2001,
I always thought of him as a major ass, not surprised about this. The girl must be desperate to hook up with a dried up ape like him. Yuck!
Mick’s clock is ticking. He’s got to do that thing he does while he still can!
He’s Mick effing Jagger, for Pete’s sake. This is what he does. Right or wrong, it would be unrealistic to expect anything different.
Yeah but Leopard. Spots.
Mick obviously fell in love. You can’t plan for that sort of thing it just happens. 🙂
He probably never stopped canoodling during the entire relationship, I don’t see this as particularly shocking.
That said, I don’t understand the attraction to petrified wood.
Apparently he has a great personality and a charming bedside manner.
Totally agree with everyone about the fact that he was seeing other women during his entire relationship with L’Wren, so why should things be different now.
Re: the attraction to this wrinkly rock star: I saw a documentary about him a year or two ago and he came across as a really charming guy – someone you would definitely love to sit next to at a dinner party. Add this to the fact that he is rich and famous and the fact that so many girls have daddy (or in this case, granddaddy) issues, and well, therein lies the answer.
He does come across very charming, but far too old for me even if Mick Jagger. But on stage last year I am amazed how in shape and energetic he was and great vocals he still had.
But in the 60s and ’70s he was pretty and I get the attraction. He had a sexiness, especially when he smiled. Here he is in like ’72 talking in an interview. I love his accent. He was a pretty boy and sexy but he was high here. He was 29, not quite as pretty as video of him when in his early 20s but still an interesting face. Keith comes on afterwards and he obviously was high on heroin. I had no idea Keith’s teeth were so bad. But they wrote some great music together. Gimme Shelter is brilliant.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=M_662jDQvjs
Jayna hi
Thanks for that clip! Why do I never think to look up stuff like that? Showing my age here but I remember that interview … all that summer we were in a fever of anticipation for that new album (Exile on Main St).
Halcyon days. 🙂
If you choose to be with someone, it’s your choice. I find it hard to understand why any woman would spend what, 13 years, 8 years, whatever it was, with a man like him. BUT – it was her choice, and blaming him seems silly.
Mick thinks about MIck. Always has, always will.
Just like nearly every other celeb.
Come on. He’s Mick freakin Jagger. He has done far worse things to women.
People deal with things in their own way.
Instead of drowning his sorrows in drugs or alcohol he is probably turning to women.
Tired of people blaming him for Scott’s suicide. I hate she felt so hopeless that her only solution was to end her life, but she ended it. That’s the fact.
I’m sorry, but how the hell is he still getting 20 something biscuit???
$$$$$$$
Right? I’ve always thought he was pretty repulsive. To each their own!
At the end of the day, he’s a 70 year old man. The clock is ticking, and he hears it. If he mourned for -what? 6 months? 2 years?- he’s that much older. I think you can live your life and still mourn- which is what he’s doing in all likelihood.
Expecting someone like Mick to change his nature at his age is asking for disappointment.
I’m 27 and I would definitely sleep with Mick Jagger if I was single. I am a HUGE Rolling Stones fan. The fact that he wrote those songs, sings those songs, has that voice… Yeah, I wouldn’t be able to turn him down. Plus, even though his face is not beautiful anymore, he still has his moves, hair, and body is good for a 70 year old. Plus, Mick is a really charming guy.
He still has his toothy smile, which kind of still makes him look boyish when he smiles even with all the lines, and not fake veeners or dentures. LOL
Anon
Yay! sistah!
*wild applause*
Not much to say about this issue besides still feeling sad about L’Wren passing. But – can you imagine if this were the other way round, and a long-term unfaithful woman ‘drowned her sorrows’ in peen after her partner killed herself? I bet she would be villainised, and calling her a ‘red blooded female’ would not fly as a defence.
For whatever reason, I find it odd that she would make him the benefactor of a lot of her estate before she committed suicide. I don’t know much about the the couple before the woman offed herself, but it situation seemed odd to me.
Why? They were together 13 years, lived together They lived in two homes he bought while with her together and she talked about all the design she did or furnishings they picked out together. He plunked millions into her business and more as she kept losing money. He bought her that condo in NY that cost millions and then found out she had taken a loan out on it for her business and I think he paid that off.
Her parents were dead. He was her family and he supported her far more than people knew financially, so why wouldn’t she leave her estate to the man she considered her mate and family? She had no children, estranged from her sister for five or six years, and her brother was well off. I’m sure any money from her estate was a pittance of paying back Jagger for all he contributed to her business, and she probably trusted him to give to her brother any personal items of hers he wanted.
mick looks like a catchers mitt with a wig on
I’ll always adore Mick, but that made me cackle with delight!!!
If you commit suicide over a man, then you had other issues too. I don’t think she killed herself over him but just saying . When I was 16, a guy asked me out. I told him I just thought of him as a friend. He tried to commit suicide and people told me it wAs my fault! No! As for mick, he’s a rocker! He’s doing what he’s always done. That doesn’t mean he didn’t love la wren. Besides we don’t know if they were together or not.
I remember when Christian heavy metal singer, Michal Sweet’s wife, Kyle, was dying. He wrote the most moving blog about his wife I have ever read I cried. She was in the hospital and things were going from bad to worse. He poured his heart out about his wife, who had seen through tick and thin with his career. And it was so beautiful. He was in so much pain facing losing her. The end was near and he just wanted to talk about her in his letter.
They had two teenagers who were around the graduating from high school age I think. Cut to five months later and he’s posting about a woman he is dating and writing a letter to his fans. By the year end he is not only getting remarried but it’s a full-on wedding. It seemed odd how quickly he was so in love and obviously started up well before he let it be shown to the fans at five months, but he loved his wife and his kids supported him. I think they saw his loneliness during her dying days and after and seemed okay with it. I alway thought this man is so beautiful for a man and below then in his late 40s. The interview on a Christian show was sad, they thought they had received a miracle from God and she was cured form Stage IV ovarian cancer, which is when she was diagnosed at stave IV and had treatment for a year and a half or so and not long after the interview it came back again. She died two years after the diagnosis.
I can’t get behind his heavy religious beliefs, far too heavy for me as far as the secular world, but I always thought he was so talented and loved him when he did gigs with Boston a few years ago.
Here is his interview talking about his wife and love and talking about falling in love again so soon to what some people don’t understand..
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eW26-zpIpA
I often thought that the whole idea of The Stones was to if d the ugliest men in London & see if they could get laid. It worked they did & by some of the worlds most beautiful women… Proving fame & money is all you need….. In other news, water is wet & Jagger is a douche, just ask Bianca
Well, he’s a not a spring chicken and doesn’t have time to waste! LOL! Plus, we don’t really know what his and L’wren’s relationship was really like. Maybe they were emotionally over or more like brother and sister or were having trouble.
I’m sorry, but L’Wren’s sister needs to check herself. She’s basically implying that he’s the reason she killed herself. While I do think it’s in poor taste to be seen with someone so soon after L’Wren’s death, people grieve in many different ways, and some people just cannot stand being alone.
Mick never married L’Wren Scott, so he is not really obligated to play the role of “grieving widower”.
Any woman who thinks MICK JAGGER is a man who is known for fidelity and monogamy, is an idiot herself. I don’t feel sorry for any woman who gets involved with Mick and expects him to “not cheat” and then goes boo hooing when he does. Make better choices, ladies!
Any woman who thinks that MICK JAGGER is a man who is capable of emotional depth and maturity, is an idiot herself. Fixed it for ya.
For all the money in the world you wouldn’t would you? That goes for when he was young too.
I think he’s hard hearted and callous and always has been. He’s being true to type. Mick has always been all about Mick.
As for that young woman with him- ICK. He’s 70 freaking years old and only capable of Viagra fun. Just. Ick. What is she thinking?
He’s a douche. Even aside from L’Wren Scott (because no one knows what happened there), it shows how much consideration he gives women he’s involved with. Only reason to be with him is the $$$, IMHO.
There are worst things in world than being alone. But whatever.
What a novel idea! 😉
ITA
Just because he was with someone else doesn’t mean he’s not mourning. Two completely separate things. And I agree – the man is in his 70s. A public display of mourning and adhering to so-called societal norms around grieving won’t bring her back, so let him live and grieve however he wants. He really doesn’t owe anyone anything here. Even if he and L’Wren were fine when she committed suicide, his moving on is ok in my book. This type of thing just seems to makes most people very uncomfortable – oh well.