Stewart performs at a hotel swimming pool during the shooting of the video for ‘Tonight I’m Yours’, his latest single, at Los Angeles in October 1981. Photo by SSPL / Getty Images.
It can certainly be said that Rod Stewart is a man who hasn't missed anything.
Rod Stewart and two of his red Ferraris.
A highly successful career, as a rock star, with music, great music and two passions that have always pervaded him: women, beautiful women and engines, in the highest sense of the word, because we're talking about Ferrari.
Rod Stewart on 01 November 1969. Photo by Dick Barnatt / Redferns.
Sir Roderick David Stewart (Rod Stewart) is one of the world's most recognised and successful rock and pop musicians of contemporary times, having sold over 120 million records and still continues to tour today in his late 70's.
Stewart has had many major charting musical hits, most known include 'Do Ya Think I'm Sexy', 'Maggie May', 'Young Turks' and 'Sailing'.
Born and based in the UK, Stewart is of Scottish and English ancestry and is known to have galavanted the world during his long career, having bases in both California, USA and Sydney, Australia, alongside his British residence.
Rock singer Rod Stewart gets out of his car, a red Ferrari. Photo by Peter Timmullstein via Getty Images.
Rod Stewart with his Lamborghini Miura in UK on 12 September 1971. Photo by Victor Blackman / Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
With typically flamboyant taste of a celebrity musician, Stewart is known for his love of high end supercars, particularly Italian (Ferrari and Lamborghini).
Rod Stewart with an unidentified woman at Heathrow Airport, London, UK, in 1973. Photo by David Redfern /Getty Images.
Rod Stewart's complex love life. Bond girl, three wives and eight kids by five women. By Kyle O'Sullivan, Deputy Editor, on 15 November 2021.
Penny Lancaster, a 1.85 meter tall English model, is the love of Rod Stewart's life.
Sir Rod Stewart has finally found the "love of his life" - but before that he had quite the complex love life.
Rod Stewart with one of his ex-girlfriends on March 20, 1983. Photo by Peter Bischoff / Getty Images.
The 76-year-old is well-known for his liaisons with various women during his high-flying career and has eight children with five different women.
At the height of his fame, Rod has admitted he was sleeping with so many models that sex was "beginning to get boring."
The legendary singer, who has tied the knot three times, has confessed he married too young and should have heeded the warning of family members.
But the lothario rock, whose performance on last week's The Graham Norton Show was widely panned by disappointed viewers, seems to have finally been tamed by third wife Penny Lancaster.
"I won't say it's trial and error. That's impolite," he once jokingly said while discussing his past relationships and finally settling down.
He once also stated: "instead of getting married again, I'm going to find a woman I don't like and just give her a house."
Here is a look at Rod's complicated love life.
Susannah Boffey
When Rod was just 17-years-old, his eldest daughter Sarah Streeter was born.
The rocker had a fling with her art student mum, Susannah Boffey, who he met in a London nightclub in 1961 and was said to have broken his heart when he was still a teenager.
In his 2013 album, Time, Rod sings the lyric "woke to find you gone" with his "teenage heart scattered to the floor."
Their daughter was adopted by Evelyn and Gerald Thubron and didn't know about her famous dad until she turned 18.
Sarah fell into drink and drug addiction but reached out to Rod when her adoptive mum died in 2007.
Rod didn’t see his eldest child for decades until he got back in touch when her adoptive mother Evelyn died in 2007.
He said: "she calls me Dad and I call her my daughter. We’re doing our best."
In 2018, Sarah revealed their relationship had evolved over time but her father being a "big star" made it difficult.
"But over the years it has become much more relaxed and now he’s just Dad to me. You can’t get away from the fact that he’s Rod Stewart, the star, but when we’re together I put that at the back of my mind."
She has now kicked her demons and credits her closer relationship with her family for helping her to do so.
Britt Ekland
Rod's most famous partner was Bond girl Britt Ekland, who starred in The Man with the Golden Gun, The Wicker Man and Get Carter with Michael Caine.
Rod Stewart with Britt Ekland on 31 July 1975 at St. Regis Hotel in New York, United States. Photo by Ron Galella / Ron Galella Collection via Getty Images.
Rod has dated a bevy of invariably blonde beauties. And here he is with Britt Ekland and an AC Cobra in 1975.
Swedish actress and singer Britt Ekland posed with singer Rod Stewart at the press launch for Rod Stewart's album ‘Atlantic Crossing’ in New York in May 1975. Photo by Fin Costello / Redferns.
They were introduced in 1975 by their mutual friend, Dame Joan Collins, before starting a passionate relationship.
Rod Stewart and his partner, actress Britt Ekland, arrive at London's Heathrow Airport from America on 29 April 1976. Photo by Express / Archive Photos / Getty Images.
They lived together for two years and Britt even gave up her career to focus on her romance with Rod.
Britt Ekland and Rod Stewart in 1976. Photo by Steve Schapiro / Corbis via Getty Images.
He was devoted to her during their time together and hit song Tonight's the Night (Gonna Be Alright) about was inspired by Britt.
"We were madly in love, we were absolutely obsessed with each other," she stated at the time. "Meeting Rod Stewart and falling in love, so madly in love, was amazing."
Rod Stewart and Britt Ekland. Photo by Steve Schapiro / Corbis via Getty Images.
But just two years after their relationship started, the couple broke-up and Britt claimed she ended their relationship because he was unfaithful.
Rod has stated the "changing point" was when Britt started putting make-up on him and his dad "went mad" when he saw.
"So, I suddenly went, 'hold on, I'm a north London boy, loves playing football, loves a pint, what are you doing wearing makeup," explained the singer.
Britt's attitude towards her ex hasn't softened towards him ever since, last year casting doubts he is a “devoted father” and claiming he has probably never changed a nappy.
Alana Stewart
Rod's first wife was American actress and model Alana, who had previously been married to actor George Hamilton.
Rod Stewart and wife Alana Stewart pose for a wedding portrait in 1979 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Donaldson Collection / Michael Ochs Archives / Getty Images.
The couple got married in 1979, the same year that Alana gave birth to their daughter Kimberly and has since admitted he got married too young.
Rod told PEOPLE magazine: "when I told my dad I was getting married, he said, 'you're far too young,'" Stewart recalls. "He was right. I still had a lot of living, partying, drinking and sh**ing to do."
The following year their son Sean arrived, but the marriage was over after just five years when Rod walked out on his devastated wife.
He had already started a relationship with another blonde model, Kelly Emberg, before the marriage was over.
Rod has since admitted he has left "a lot of broken hearts" in his wake, saying: "I haven't treated women badly but I'm not proud of the way I broken up relationships. I was a real coward."
Alana, who now has a close relationship with her ex, admits her "world fell apart" when they split up.
She said: "divorce is never easy, but it's even more painful when you find out your husband is having an affair with a beautiful model fifteen years younger than you. I had always been so certain that we were forever, that nothing could ever come between us. I can't make Rod out to be the total villain and me the innocent victim, even though he was the one having the affair. The last couple of years our marriage had started to deteriorate from the madly in love couple who had everything we could possibly want to the reality of having young children and a wife who couldn't keep up with the rock-and-roll lifestyle anymore."
Rod's son Sean starred in American reality show Sons of Hollywood, showing the attempts of three kids of celeb parents trying to build their own careers.
While daughter Kimberley, who is a model and fashion designer, began acting and starred in 1999 film Black and White with Robert Downey Jr. and Jared Leto.
She also gave Rod his first granddaughter, Delia, whose father is ‘The Usual Suspects’ actor Benicio del Toro.
Kelly Emberg
Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood and his wife Jo (left) with Singer Rod Stewart and girlfriend Kelly Emberg at Wood's birthday party in June 1988. Photo by Dave Hogan / Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
Rod has started seeing model Kelly Emberg, who is 15 years younger than him, before his marriage to Alana had ended.
The couple had one daughter, Ruby and stayed together for seven years, which at the time was his longest relationship.
Rod has admitted he treated her "terribly" and has described her as "the most wonderful woman in the world."
Meanwhile, Kelly has said: "it is very hard being in love with someone and knowing they are wrong for you. I thought about breaking up with Rod for a year before I finally made the decision to do it. But once I turned 30 and had a good look at my life and situation, I realised Rod didn't want to marry me."
Rod and Kelly have now clearly repaired their relationship and the former Sports Illustrated model and he are great friends.
While daughter Ruby followed in her mother's footsteps by becoming a high fashion model and has been a singer in two bands and a Diet Pepsi commercial.
Rachel Hunter
Rod Stewart with model Rachel Hunter outside Langan's Brasserie in London, England. Photo by Dave Benett / Getty Images.
Within three weeks of meeting New Zealand model Rachel Hunter in a club in 1991, Rod had proposed and they tied the knot three months later.
Rachel, who is 26 years younger than the singer, gave birth to daughter Renee in 1992 and two years later their son Liam arrived.
Model Rachel Hunter and husband British rock singer and songwriter Rod Stewart attend the 1994 Carousel of Hope Ball on 28 October 1994 at the Beverly Hilton Hotel in Beverly Hills, California. Photo by Ron Davis / Getty Images.
But Rachel made the shock decision to leave Rod in 1999 – leaving him completely heartbroken.
"I couldn’t believe it,” Rod told the Mail On Sunday. "I was a rock star. You don’t dump a rock star! It knocked me for six. It was a huge shock."
Rod Stewart gets a kiss from his wife, model Rachel Hunter, on 08 June 1996. Photo by Fiona Hanson - PA Images via Getty Images.
The rocker admitted in hindsight the 26-year age difference played a big part in why their relationship broke down.
"She was just 21 when we married and a mum a year later. My sister Mary told me she was too young for me as we were walking down the aisle. And she was right."
Rod Stewart and his wife Rachel Hunter at the premiere of Evita in London on 19 December 1996. Photo by Michael Crabtree - PA Images via Getty Images.
In a 2001 interview with the Mirror, Rachel admitted that despite looking like they were living a fairy-tale life from the outside, she was making plans to leave Rod.
She said: “to the outside world I was the mother of two beautiful kids, a wife to Rod and a successful model without any financial worries – but inside, I was in torment. By the time I was 29, I had spent eight years with someone else’s group of friends. In the nine years were together, I’d never done anything for myself. If you’d asked me then what I liked or didn’t like, I wouldn’t have been able to tell you. I didn’t even have a hobby."
Rod Stewart and wife Rachel Hunter attend The Royal Ascot race meeting on 18 June 1997 in Ascot, United Kingdom. Photo by Julian Parker / UK Press via Getty Images.
The pair officially divorced in 2006 and Rachel has admitted she will take the pain she caused Rod to the grave because he was "distraught."
Their son Liam is an ice hockey star and plays professionally for the Milton Keynes Lightning.
Penny Lancaster
Rod Stewart with Penny Lancaster. Photo by Richard Young / Shutterstock.
Rod has finally found everlasting love with another model, Penny Lancaster, who he began dating in 1999.
Penny Lancaster and Rod Stewart are seen on 01 April 2005 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by BG036 / Bauer-Griffin / GC Images.
The couple got married in 2007, a year after his divorce from Rachel was finalised, and are still madly in love to this day.
The couple have two children, Alastair and Aiden, who are mostly kept out of the limelight but were pictured with Rod this weekend at a charity football bash.
Rod Stewart, wearing a kilt and full formal Scots attire, with Penny Lancaster. Photo by Kurt Krieger / Corbis via Getty Images.
This is Rod's longest marriage and the pair seem happier than ever and their sex life is still "great", although at times he just wants a cuddle.
"I need a bit of a start on the handle now, like a vintage car," he once joked. "Sex becomes more spiritual as one gets older. I love sex with my wife, but I love just giving her a hug. Every night we have a kiss and a hug and that doesn’t always lead to sex but it’s still lovely. When I’m away from her a long time and I don’t get a hug, I really miss it."
Rod Stewart and his wife Penny Lancaster are seen on 24 May 2018 in Rome, Italy. Photo by Agostino Fabio / GC Images.
There aren't many secrets about their relationship as Penny frequently opens up about her marriage to Rod on Loose Women.
Photo: Instagram/Rod Stewart (Composite).
Rod Stewart shows off his Ferraris, may sell them because of potholes outside his mansion.
Published: 16 Nov 2024. By Elena Gorgan.
Nothing comes between a man and his cars, unless that something is potholes outside his multi-million mansion. Sir Rod Stewart, one of the most high-profile celebrity car collectors out there, is thinking of selling his Ferraris because of the state of the roads in his region.
Posting to his social media the other day, the rocker informed his fans that he was thinking of selling his "works of art" because the road to his home was riddled with potholes, which rendered them unusable. Say what you will about Stewart or his passion for Ferraris, but he's not the kind of collector who turns his collectibles into garage queens.
Obviously, he can't enjoy them as he should without the proper infrastructure.
"Because of the potholes on our roads, I may have to find new owners for them," Rod says on his Instagram. "I’ve been driving these iconic Italian cars since the seventies and I absolutely love and adore them."
He also says that he's grateful to the fans for making this happen for him and expresses regret at what sounds like a certainty at this point. The post is attached to a photo of Rod himself standing in front of five Ferraris, with his most recent one, a LaFerrari he got in 2023 for £5 million ($6.3 million) and for which he built a special Celtic FC-themed garage, taking center stage.
Photo: Instagram / Rod Stewart
Stewart's battle against the potholes in his region is turning out to be a never-ending one.
He's been to war against potholes before, famously putting on a high-vis vest and hardhat and going out with a team of volunteers to pour concrete in the potholes outside his mansion in Harlow, Essex. In a video that immediately went viral, he explained that he simply couldn't drive his Ferrari there anymore but stressed that the issue was bigger than that. People were messing up their cars and emergency services couldn't get through, he said. All his other attempts to get authorities to fix the issue had fallen on deaf ears.
That was in the spring of 2022 and it marked the start of fresh drama between the rocker and local authorities, who even threatened him they might hold him liable for future accidents if he continued fixing what they wouldn't. Not that Stewart was in any way frightened off.
Then, after months of back and forths, it seemed like Rod Stewart had won. Sources from the local council told the media that they would re-lay the concrete on the road that connected to the star's multi-million mansion. Based on this new post, it doesn't sound like he's won anything, probably because the potholes weren't fixed in the first place.
Or maybe he's just humble bragging and, in the process, trying to attract fresh attention on an issue that's close to his heart.
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Rod Stewart with a Rolls Royce Silver Cloud and a Lamborghini Miura.
In 1970 Rod Stewart, then with The Faces, bought one of the first Lamborghini Miura P400 in the UK, supplied by Lamborghini Concessionaires Ltd., registration number: OVM8H and chassis number: 3372. It was the first of three Lamborghini Miura he owned, replacing his Marcos.
Rod Stewart and his yellow Lamborghini Miura.
By 1971 The Faces were in full swing and his solo career was incredible, so why not buying the most expensive Lamborghini, the Miura SV, ordered in yellow, again with air conditioning and a state of the art Phillips radio/cassette with a recording function:
- 1972 Lamborghini Miura SV Coupé (1 of 7 RHD);
- Registration number LUC 38K;
- Chassis number 4818.
He kept the car until 1985, which in rockstar terms is a lifetime and the fact that both cars still exist is amazing.
Following the success of Maggie May, Rod Stewart bought a white Miura P400S in November 1971, which was the latest model, chassis number: 4863 and registration number: JLL831K, including air conditioning and seat belts. Over time this car was latterly upgraded to SV spec by subsequent owners and sold in October for £909k at Coys at Alexandra Palace sale. It has been subsequently rebuilt to factory standards by its current owner and has been reunited with its original registration number.
Rod Stewart with his girlfriend, model Dee Harrington, in UK on 12 September 1971. Photo by Victor Blackman / Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
Rod Stewart and girlfriend fashion model Dee (Deidre) Harrington at London airport on 20 May 1972. Photo by Dove / Daily Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
British pop star Rod Stewart with his fiancee Dee Harrington and dogs in September 1973. Photo by SSPL / Getty Images.
Rod Stewart with his partner Dee Harrington at Heathrow airport in London, UK, on 24 January 1974. Photo by Dennis Stone / Express / Hulton Archive / Getty Images.
British pop star Rod Stewart with singer Bebe Buell in November 1977. Photo by SSPL / Getty Images.
Rod Stewart with singer, actress and comedienne Tracey Ullman on 15 May 1984. Photo by P. Shirley / Express / Getty Images.
Supermodel Caprice Bourret (27) at the launch party for the opening of Geneva jewellers De Grisogono's London store on 22 December 1998. She was rumoured to be dating Rod Stewart (54). Photo by Peter Jordan - PA Images.
Rod Stewart in his Ferrari F50.
Rod Stewart with his wife on holiday in Marbella, Spain, takes a spin in his Ferrari F50. The car-mad Scot has owned the car since 1997.
Sir Rod Stewart opening the door of his Ferrari F50 in Marbella, Spain. Photo by Alpha-Angeli-JJ.
Rod Stewart is seen on 05 February 1999 in Los Angeles with his red Ferrari F40.
Rod Stewart is seen on 05 February 1999 in Los Angeles, USA. Photo by Bauer-Griffin / GC Images.
Rod Stewart is seen on 05 February 1999 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Bauer-Griffin / GC Images.
Rod Stewart is seen on 05 February 1999 in Los Angeles, California. Photo by Bauer-Griffin / GC Images.
Rod Stewart with his red Ferrari on 16 June 2003. Photo by Jeremy Selwyn / Evening Standard / Shutterstock.
Rod Stewart with his Ferrari 550 Barchetta.
Rod Stewart is seen on 01 May 2004 in Los Angeles, California, with his Ferrari and a blonde girl. Photo by Bauer-Griffin / GC Images.
Rod Stewart is seen on 01 May 2004 in Los Angeles, California, with his Ferrari and a blonde girl. Photo by Bauer-Griffin / GC Images.
Rod Stewart is seen on 01 May 2004 in Los Angeles, California, with his Ferrari. Photo by Bauer-Griffin / GC Images.
"When I married Penny, I had a Ferrari Enzo. I sold it. I shouldn't have," he told The Scottish Sun. To make matters worse for the superstar, he sold the vehicle for less than £1 million (a little over $1.2 million), but the car would have fetched about £3 million (roughly $3.62 million) just five years later, in 2018.
Rod Stewart and his beautiful red Ferrari.
Rod Stewart with another red Ferrari.
A Ferrari 575 Superamerica owned by Rod Stewart outside the Hard Rock cafe in London on 06 March 2009. Photo by Lewis Whyld / PA Images via Getty Images.
Sixty-six year old rocker Rod Stewart looks to be struggling as he gets out of his red Ferrari while out with a friend in London, UK, on 06 September 2011.
Rod Stewart does not own a Ferrari California, but he is known for owning other classic Ferraris, including an F50 and an F40, which have been sold at auction. While he does own hybrid sports cars and drives other Italian cars, he does not have a Ferrari California in his known collection.
Rod Stewart getting into a Ferrari California.
Rod Stewart in a Ferrari California.
Rod Stewart and his white Ferrari 458.
Rod Stewart and his wife in his white Ferrari 458.
Rod Stewart and his wife in his white Ferrari 458.
Rod Stewart was known to have owned a white Ferrari F8 Tributo, which he mentioned in a viral video from March 2022, where he was seen filling potholes on his street. Stewart, a longtime Ferrari enthusiast, purchased the two-seater F8 Tributo and later expressed that the numerous potholes on his home street were too severe for the low-slung supercar to navigate safely.
Rod Stewart proudly showed off his new purchase after spending three years tracking down his dream car. The singer, 78, took to Instagram to show off his LaFerrari which he proudly parked inside his Celtic FC-themed garage. The luxury vehicle is no longer made and has become such a sought after item that the average car now costs between four to five million pounds. Addressing his 1.3 million Instagram followers, Rod shared: 'the conclusion of a three year search for this work of art. A LaFerrari in its own Celtic garage.'
Rod Stewart with one of his white Ferraris.
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