The biggest Lothario in the Rolling Stones was not the charismatic, big-lipped frontman Mick Jagger but their unassuming bassist, Bill Wyman.<\/p>\n
When the band first toured the United States in 1965, the hotels where they stayed were awash with drugs and women eager to sleep with the rockers. Wyman would \u201centertain\u201d women he picked up wherever the Stones performed.<\/p>\n
\u201cBill was hands-down the band\u2019s unrivaled p**sy hound,\u201d writes Bob Spitz in the upcoming The Rolling Stones: The Biography, noting that the guitarist was reportedly unable to get to sleep without \u201cfresh female companionship \u2026 his appetite for casual sex was unquenchable\u201d.<\/p>\n
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Spitz writes that Wyman would stand on stage, holding his bass in a certain way to prevent glare, so he could peruse women in the first few rows. Between songs, he\u2019d send out an assistant to ask his choices if they\u2019d like to meet Wyman after the show.<\/p>\n
Wyman, 89, married his first wife, Diane Cory, in 1959. They welcomed their son, Stephen, in 1962, and divorced in 1969.<\/p>\n
However, decades later, the musician became infatuated with a girl, who would become his second wife.<\/p>\n
In 1985, Wyman, who had always chased young groupies, was enraptured by a female from Tottenham named Mandy Smith. <\/p>\n
The relationship raised eyebrows because he was 48 and she was 13, \u201ca detail they tried to keep under wraps\u201d, writes Spitz.<\/p>\n
Wyman defended his controversial relationship by claiming that \u201cshe was a woman at thirteen,\u201d and believed she was twenty when they first met.<\/p>\n
The band read Wyman the \u201criot act,\u201d and the relationship \u201crevolted\u201d Jagger, who had two daughters older than Smith.<\/p>\n
The pair married in 1989, when Wyman was 52, and Smith was 18, and separated two years later. They finalised their divorce two years after that.<\/p>\n
In a quirky aside, Wyman\u2019s son, Stephen, 30, married Smith\u2019s mother, Patsy, 46, in 1993, but the couple split two years later.<\/p>\n
Wyman later married model Suzanne Accosta in 1993, whom he had known for years. The couple shares three daughters.<\/p>\n
In 1993, he officially announced his departure from the Rolling Stones after 30 years with the band. In 2023, he reportedly reunited with the band for a song in tribute to their late drummer, Charlie Watts.<\/p>\n
In 2016, he was diagnosed with prostate cancer.<\/p>\n