WHAT ELSE CAN YOU SAY ABOUT MICK AND HIS WILD LIFESTYLE? Mick Jagger's affair with Carla Bruni!

A t the height of the Urban Jungle tour in 1990, Jagger spotted his old pal Eric Clapton with a twenty-three-year-old model named Carla Bruni. An heir to the Pirelli tire fortune, Bruni had all the qualities he looked for in a woman: jaw-dropping beauty, youth, money of her own ($4 million a year in modeling fees, plus her inheritance), and, most important, a rock star boyfriend.

“I knew Carla would appeal to his eye,” said Clapton, who remembered all too well how Jagger had tried unsuccessfully to steal his ex-wife, Pattie Boyd Harrison Clapton, away from him. He begged his friend to stay away from Carla. “Please, Mick,” Clapton pleaded, “not this one. I think I’m in love.”

But within days, Jagger and Bruni began what Clapton called their “clandestine affair. After Carla stood me up a couple of times, I got a call from the girl who had introduced us, telling me Carla was seeing Mick, and it was serious.”

Clapton was devastated. “The obsession with Mick and Carla gripped me for the rest of that year,” he said. “It took some grisly turns when I found myself guesting with the Stones on a couple of shows, knowing she was lurking in the background.” Jerry had also been aware of the rumors during the Urban Jungle tour and dismissed Carla as just another camp follower. But when stories surfaced in the press indicating that affair was still going strong after a full year, Hall ordered him to end it. Instead Mick flew out the door in a rage