For a man who has slept over 4,000 women, it’s a remarkable change of pace.
Last Sunday, after the second of two sold-out concerts in Los Angeles, Lothario Mick Jagger returned to his £ 8,500-a-night ‘family suite’ at the Maybourne Hotel in Beverly Hills and enjoyed a meal with his girlfriend Melanie Hamrick (cooked by her private chef) while their 4-year-old son Deveraux slept in an adjoining room.
There was no drugs, rock ‘n’ roll or party for the once notorious womanizer who begged ‘Let’s spend the night together’ and whose hits include Paint It Black, Sympathy For The Devil and Under My. Thumb.
The Color of Love: Mick Jagger’s Girlfriend, Melanie Hamrick, at American Ballet Theater Spring Gala, Arrivals, New York, USA, 2018
Couple goals: Mick Jagger and Melanie Hamrick spotted in London in 2019
Indeed, if there was a party, it was held at the five-star Four Seasons hotel across town, where bandmates Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood were locked up with members of the entourage. and the Rolling Stones team.
According to sources, the recently reformed Jagger, 78, preferred to stay in a separate hotel with his family, spending his days sightseeing, hiking the local trails and enjoying intimate meals for two with the former ballerina Melanie, 34, in their suite or at their favorite Japanese restaurant, Matsuhisa.
“Mick has totally changed,” said one of them. “He always had a serious girlfriend, but when he was on the road on tour there were always other girls, a lot of them.
“This time it’s different. Melanie, Dev and the nanny are on tour with him, so it all revolves around the first few nights and hanging out with his family. And he’s happier than I’ve ever seen him.
The group spent ten days in Los Angeles before heading out on Friday for their next No Filter Tour show in Minneapolis tonight. “Mick didn’t hang out with the band or the team at all, except when they were working,” the source said.
“The Covid regulations meant everyone had to stay in their own bubbles and get tested daily by a team of doctors who traveled with them. Mick has chosen to stay in his family bubble.
“Even at the concert hall, he hung out in his dressing room with Melanie and Dev. He played and then it was straight to the hotel.
“He and Melanie are fitness fanatics. They have their own private chef so it’s egg whites for breakfast and steamed fish or grilled chicken for dinner.
“One of the bedrooms in their suite has been converted into a gym.
“He’s a reformed character. Mick hasn’t taken drugs in years and barely drinks, but Melanie is a professional dancer so she has him workout with a personal trainer every day to maintain his energy levels and they eat cleanly.
The Mail on Sunday learned that the pandemic marked a major turning point in the relationship between Jagger and Melanie, who first met in 2014 shortly after the death of his longtime girlfriend, designer L’Wren. Scott, 49 years old.
Despite the birth of Deveraux in 2016 – Jagger’s eighth child by five different women – he continued to shy away from engagement and was linked with the astonishing film producer Noor Alfalla, whom sources said he “would hang out with on a regular basis. in touch in LA and elsewhere ”.
The source said: “The pandemic has changed Mick’s outlook on life, as it has for a lot of people. He and Mélanie spent a lot of time together, mostly in his chateau in France, and he really enjoyed taking the time to be an active father to Deveraux. He talks quite openly about how Covid made him stop and think about what’s important in life. And he chose Mélanie and her child.
The death in August of drummer Charlie Watts, 80, also made Jagger think.
Romantic: Ballerina Melanie Hamrick [right], 34, and her rocker boyfriend Mick Jagger [left], 77, featured a beloved display in a rare post on her birthday
Happy couple: Melanie and Mick (pictured together in 2019) have been together since 2014, he met her following the death of his girlfriend L’Wren Scott
“The Stones opened each concert with a tribute to Charlie and Mick has spoken a lot about him,” the source said.
“You can’t be friends and teammates with someone for that long without it affecting you.
“Mick totally appreciates the little things in life now. Sure, he still has the private jets and all the wealth traps, but this week in LA he was happy to take some time out and go sightseeing with Melanie.
They went around and did what “normal” people do. They hiked and swam in the hotel pool.
A beaming Jagger posted photos of his ‘tame’ new life to Instagram under the heading ‘Mattresses, murals and more around LA’.
The reference to “mattresses” referred to a bedding store that sits under a Jagger mural in his heyday of the 1960s on La Cienega Boulevard.
He also went to model girl Georgia May’s favorite hair salon, BleachLA, and posed for models in the window of a famous Hollywood lingerie store called Trashy Lingerie.
“He became a tourist in his own right and loved it,” the source added. Her older children are said to adore Melanie, unlike some of Jagger’s other lovers over the years.
The eldest daughter Karis, 51, lives in Los Angeles with her husband and two children and met the couple last week.
“Her children adore Mélanie. She is funny and fiery and they know that she takes care of their father and makes him happy.
“No one ever thought that day would come, but Mélanie definitely tamed it. She has a good influence on him, “added the source.
Jagger was married to Bianca, mother of daughter Jade, and then to Texan model Jerry Hall, with whom he had four children.
Hall left him after 23 years when she learned of his involvement with Brazilian model Luciana Gimenez Morad. Jagger then attempted to claim that their marriage in Bali was invalid.
Jagger’s list of lovers includes Brigitte Bardot, Kate Moss, Tina Turner, Uma Thurman, Madonna and Carly Simon.
Biographer Chris Anderson claimed the leader had sex with more than 4,000 women, including Angelina Jolie.
For Jagger, these conquests are now a thing of the past.
“I’ve never seen him happier than when Melanie is here,” the source continued.
“She’s beautiful to watch, but she gets it too. They are still laughing. You never hear them talk about marriage, but they are already like a married couple.
The couple have rarely spoken about their relationship.
American Melanie, who retired from dance and now works as a choreographer and producer, has filled her social networks with adorable photographs of Deveraux.
She owns an apartment in New York and Jagger recently bought her a house near Sarasota, Florida.
In a rare public comment, she said: “It is important for me and my son… to stay together as a family, especially in these uncertain times.”
Will she become the third – and possibly the last – Mrs. Jagger?
Only time will tell if, finally, Mick has found his satisfaction.