Rolling Stone Ronnie Wood Dumps Wife Of 23 Years For 18 Year Old Girl

**Kimmekap** · 07-11-2008, 12:51 PM

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...cle1408174.ece

ROLLING STONE RONNIE WOOD was last night living with a Russian bargirl less than a THIRD of his age — who is bragging to pals how he has dumped his wife of 23 years.

Muscovite Ekaterina Ivanova, 18, claims shocked Jo Wood begged her not to steal the 61-year-old after he took her home to meet his missus. But the cocktail waitress told friends she sneered at the blonde ex-model: �I am not taking him — he is leaving.�

Dad-of-four Ronnie, who met the teenager while out boozing, has now whisked her away to his luxury pad in Ireland.

Yesterday Jo, 53, who believed the pair had gone on a painting holiday together, was horrified to learn of the teenager’s boasts — and insisted the conversation at the couple’s South West London mansion NEVER took place.

Jo declared: �She is mad — she is a terrible alcoholic.

�I know her — she’s been here. She’s a friend and he’s a guy — I’m going to call her now.

�And I’m gonna go and call him now and tell him what she’s said.�

Jo admitted she WAS frantic with worry — but said it was because alcoholic Ronnie was hitting the bottle again.

She revealed at the family home in Kingston upon Thames: �He’s drinking heavily — maybe two bottles of vodka a day.�

Jo said boozy Ekaterina had wormed her way into becoming a drunking buddy of her husband — who has earned respect in the art world with his paintings.

The wife insisted: �I was quite all right that she was hanging around with him.

�They have been staying in Ireland and Ronnie’s art man was with them.

�Ronnie told me she was staying there and I said, ‘OK — get on with it and have a drink, go mad. Drink your guts up’.�

Asked if she thought the pair were having an affair, Jo stressed: �They’re not boyfriend or girlfriend — not in that way.�

Ekaterina has been telling friends a different story.

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One said: �She is absolutely besotted with Ronnie.

�Whether or not he knows it, she plans a future with him.

�She has told everyone Ronnie has left his wife for her and they are a full-on item. She said she went to Ronnie’s house in London and has met his wife Jo.

�Ekaterina said Jo had told her she knew what was going on and begged her not to take her husband away.

�She claimed she told Jo, ‘I am not taking him. He is leaving’.

�She and Ronnie have been seeing each other ever since.�

Ekaterina used the social networking website Facebook to tell chums she and the guitarist were having a relationship.

In internet chats with them she said Ronnie was her boyfriend and she was quickly �falling in love�.

While Ekaterina has been staying with Ronnie in County Kildare — where he often goes to paint — the rocker has been using her as a model.

The friend said: �She has told everyone she has been posing for her boyfriend Ronnie, and that she only models for him.

Everyone’s a bit taken aback by the relationship.