{"id":480323,"date":"2026-02-17T08:52:10","date_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:52:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480323\/"},"modified":"2026-02-17T08:52:10","modified_gmt":"2026-02-17T08:52:10","slug":"the-stark-financial-disparity-of-the-rolling-stones-revealed-by-ronnie-wood-sons-court-case","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/480323\/","title":{"rendered":"The stark financial disparity of the Rolling Stones revealed by Ronnie Wood son’s court case"},"content":{"rendered":"

You might assume the members of the Rolling Stones<\/a> and their families are all financially set for life given the enduring success of the band\u2019s music. But as revealed in a recent court case concerning Ronnie Wood<\/a>\u2019s son Jesse, not everyone in the Stones\u2019 world is rolling in it.<\/p>\n

As reported by the Daily Mail<\/a>, Jesse Wood stood before magistrates in West London last month after pleading guilty to an unspecified minor driving offence, revealing he was living on around \u00a31,000 per month with an annual income of \u00a314,000, and was surviving on savings. The 49-year-old guitarist and model asked for leniency, it\u2019s said, after being handed a \u00a3957 court bill.<\/p>\n

As one of rock music\u2019s all-time commercially successful bands, it\u2019s easy to assume the money would be of no concern to any member of the Rolling Stones and their families.<\/p>\n

Ronnie Wood\u2019s net worth is reported to be substantial \u2013 somewhere in the region of \u00a3150 million as quoted by numerous sources \u2013 but it\u2019s important to note that the point at which he joined the Stones was instrumental in shaping his financial position later down the line.<\/p>\n

Wood joined the band in 1975, after many of their most royalty-generating hits had already been written. For example, the royalties generated by hits like Satisfaction (1965) flow to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/p>\n

An anonymous industry source quoted by the Daily Mail explains: \u201cPeople see stadiums and assume it\u2019s one big pot of money for everyone. It never has been.<\/p>\n

\u201cMick and Keith operate in a different financial stratosphere. Ronnie\u2019s world has always been more complicated, and that has trickled down.\u201d<\/p>\n

While Ronnie Wood no doubt earns a considerable wedge for being a Rolling Stone \u2013 from touring revenue and songs written since he joined, for example \u2013 the source notes that there\u2019s a reason for the disparity in what each Stones member takes home.<\/p>\n

\u201cHe gets paid handsomely to be a Rolling Stone, but he doesn\u2019t own the jukebox,\u201d they go on.<\/p>\n

People often incorrectly assume that a person\u2019s quoted net worth is a liquid pot of cash they have in the bank ready to distribute as needed. But the picture is always more complicated than that. The Daily Mail notes that much of Ronnie Wood\u2019s fortune is tied up in illiquid assets, including a multi-million-pound art collection, as well as property and investments.<\/p>\n

\u201cHis wealth is structural,\u201d a financial advisor tells the Daily Mail. \u201cIt\u2019s in paintings and properties and future tour revenues. That\u2019s not the same as having millions in a bank account to distribute.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"Sam<\/p>\n

Sam is the Associate News Editor for Guitar.com and MusicTech. Thoroughly immersed in music culture for the majority of his life, Sam has played guitar for 20 years, studied music technology and production at university, and also written for the likes of Guitar World, Total Guitar, Metal Hammer and MusicRadar.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"You might assume the members of the Rolling Stones and their families are all financially set for life…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":480324,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[1896,49,48,75,341],"class_list":{"0":"post-480323","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-music","8":"tag-artist","9":"tag-ca","10":"tag-canada","11":"tag-entertainment","12":"tag-music"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480323","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=480323"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/480323\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/480324"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=480323"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=480323"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=480323"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}