Despite his eldest son’s many assault arrests, Sir Rod Stewart claims his children have never been in’serious trouble’.
The 78-year-old Maggie May singer acknowledged that he is’very forgiving’ with his children: Sarah, 59, Kimberly, 44, Ruby, 36, and Renee, 31, as well as sons Sean, 43, Liam, 29, Alastair Wallace, 17, and Aiden Patrick, 12.
‘I’m very lenient with them. None have gotten into any serious trouble. A couple dabbled with drugs, but that’s all done now. I’m very proud of them all,’ he said.
‘I don’t think I’m as strict with my kids as my mom and dad – especially my dad – were,’ Sir Rod told Haute Living in their recent cover interview with him.
Sir Rod may be a proud parent, but while he claims none of his children have been in “serious trouble,” his eldest son, Sean, has faced jail time and many assault convictions in the past.
Sir Rod’s kid from his marriage to model-actress Alana Stewart is Sean. In the early 1980s, the couple divorced.
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According to the Los Angeles Times, Sean was sentenced to 90 days in prison and placed on probation for five years in 2002 for assaulting a 19-year-old guy outside a California restaurant.
He pled no guilty to felony assault and was sentenced to reimburse the victim $5,600 (£4,525) and to engage in an anger management and drug recovery course.
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Five years later, in 2007, Sean, who appeared in A&E’s reality show Sons of Hollywood, was accused of assaulting a married couple again.
TMZ reported at the time he was charged with four felonies, including two accounts of assault with a deadly weapon, one count of vandalism and one could of throwing substance at a vehicle, after he threw bricks and punches at their car.
He and a few others were allegedly denied access to a home party, so they began hurling stones, a mailbox, and even a bin at a Ford F150 passing by the house.
The case was settled out of court, and Stewart was freed on a $60,000 (£48,000) bail after pleading not guilty.
Months later, in August 2007, CBS News reported that Stewart was being sued by a guy who claimed he was beaten up outside a Hollywood nightclub in 2006.
Daniel Refoua filed the case in Los Angeles, accusing Stewart of assault, violence, false detention, negligence, and intentional infliction of mental distress.
Sean Bral, Refoua’s attorney, stated that his client was beaten up on January 5, 2006, by a gang that included Sean after accidently running into the singer’s kid at Hollywood’s LAX nightclub.
According to Bral, Refoua, who is in his twenties, sustained a fractured nose and other injuries.
This case was likewise resolved amicably.
Then, on New Year’s Eve 2019, Sir Rod and Sean pled guilty to violence in an assault case after an encounter with a security officer at Palm Beach’s exclusive Breakers Hotel.
According to court documents, the singer and Sean pleaded guilty to misdemeanour charges of simple violence.
The fight erupted after hotel security guard Jessie Dixon refused to let them enter a private party at the hotel.
MailOnline reported at the time that Mr Dixon told police he asked them to leave, with the group then ‘getting loud’ and ‘causing a scene’.
He claimed Sean then squared up to him, getting ‘about nose to nose’ distance from his face.
Attempting to diffuse the situation, Mr Dixon ‘put the back of his right hand’ on the Sean’s chest, asking him to ‘back up and create space’.
The police report stated Sean allegedly shoved him, before Sir Rod then ‘stepped toward him and threw a punch, striking Dixon in his left ribcage area’.
It also said Sir Rod ‘apologised for his behaviour in the incident’.
‘No one was injured in the incident and a jury did not find Sir Rod Stewart guilty of the accusation,’ his lawyer Guy Fronstin said in a statement.
‘Instead, Sir Rod Stewart decided to enter a plea to avoid the inconvenience and unnecessary burden on the court and the public that a high-profile proceeding would cause.’
Sir Rod and his son were not required to appear in court as part of the plea arrangement, and official adjudication of the matter was postponed. There was no court hearing.
They were not sentenced to jail or penalties, and they were not placed on probation.
Mr Dixon was alleged to have agreed with the case’s conclusion.
Sean has previously spoken openly about his difficulties with substance abuse, admitting to taking heroin in the past.
In 2014, according to Radar Online, he said in Brandi Glanville’s Podcast One show: ‘Everybody likes to party. I’ve done my partying. I’ve done enough drugs to kill Hollywood.’
According to the magazine, he went on to declare that he prefers drinking water now days and that his crazy drug-addled lifestyle is a thing of the past.
Sean married Jody Weintraub in an unplanned ceremony in February of this year.
They chose to exchange vows at the courtroom the same day after proposing at the restaurant Catch.
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The Dirty Weekend streetwear designer has known the former EXTRA producer, daughter of the legendary late producer Jerry Weintraub, since high school, a source told People earlier this year.
‘They are both very family-oriented people,’ they added. ‘They’re the same person, the source said of the couple and why it works.
‘They’re from the same town, they have the same friends. They just understand each other.’
