Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, 61, 'runs away with 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress' [View All]

[Amerigo Vespucci]

Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood, 61, 'runs away with 18-year-old Russian cocktail waitress'

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1034293/Rolling-Stone-Ronnie-Wood-61-runs-away-18-year-old-Russian-cocktail-waitress.html

By Alison Boshoff and Richard Simpson



Ronnie Wood has walked out on his wife and four children to live with a teenage cocktail waitress he met in an escort bar.

The 61-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist has fled to his mansion in Ireland with the 18-year- old Russian blonde.

His wife of 23 years, Jo, is said to have begged Ekaterina Ivanova not to take her husband away from her. The teenager is understood to have told friends that she replied: 'I am not taking him - he is leaving.'

A representative of Wood, who has battled a drink problem for years, said the girl began seeing him three months ago when he was at a low ebb, frazzled by alcohol. They have been together ever since.

Wood - who is drinking two bottles of vodka a day - met Miss Ivanova after the London premiere of the Stones documentary, Shine A Light, on April 2 in a seedy escort bar in Soho.

Within weeks the girl from Moscow had grown so close to Wood that she accompanied him back to the home he shares with Jo and their four children in Kingston upon Thames, South-West London.

At the beginning of May, Wood invited Miss Ivanova to join him at his mansion in Clane, County Kildare.

She has been writing about the relationship on the social networking website Facebook, calling Wood her 'boyfriend' and saying she is quickly 'falling in love'.