Virginia Blackburn

Virginia Blackburn is a journalist, columnist and author. She has written two novels and more than 20 celebrity biographies including David Beckham: The Great Betrayal, Kylie: Story of a Survivor, and Robbie's Secrets.

My greatest regret is not getting pregnant by a rich rock god, says VIRGINIA BLACKBURN

Mick Jagger has several children by different women (Image: Michael Hickey/Getty)

I HAVE one major regret. When I was a cute twentysomething I totally failed to get myself knocked up by a septuagenarian rock god, thus setting myself up for life.

Mick Jagger's latest baby mama has a $5million Manhattan townhouse; it would be worth putting up with the ageing rocker on a part-time basis for that. Nor is she alone in her good fortune, although she never actually married the old goat, for a new report has just said that tying the knot multiple times is better for women than for men. I bet it is.

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Apparently, it improves their health, boosts them financially and gives their children a better chance of survival, whereas the men who married muchly became increasingly unfit and had fewer surviving children. Serves them right.

I grew up in the age of feminism, where a woman needed a man like a fish needed a bicycle!

Trouble is, no one said anything about having a large and well-appointed fishbowl.

Some women, however, took a very different attitude.

They fastened their attention on to their putative victim with all the accuracy and intensity of a heat-seeking missile – and before you knew it, they were racing their spouses at speed around the marital sitting room to nab the (valuable) paintings they wanted in the forthcoming divorce.

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And they got them, too.

The poor husbands never stood a chance.

Zsa Zsa Gabor was a great housekeeper (Image: Keystone-France/Gamma-Keystone via Getty)

These professional wives are really quite a breed.

Not for them the nonsense of making your own way in life: find a man with an enormous bank balance and latch on to that.

One New York matron informed that her husband was very short, replied: "Not when he stands on his wallet."

And then there's Ivana Trump: "Don't get mad, get everything."

Zsa Zsa Gabor: "I'm a great housekeeper. I always keep the house."

The latter two actually had lives and careers in their own right, but that's what I call multi-tasking.

Jagger's baby mama still performs as a ballerina, but having seen her on stage, I can testify she's wise in forming a back-up plan.

Ivana and Donald Trump (Image: Ron Galella Collection via Getty)
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Not that I feel much pity for the male victims.

The vast majority of them want trophy wives and if they are stupid enough to think that a woman 30 years their junior really wants them for their charisma and virility, then frankly, they deserve everything they get.

Once in a blue moon, the trophy wife turns out to be anything but, as in the lovely Debbie McGee, who was asked, "What attracted you to the millionaire magician Paul Daniels?".

In many cases, the grieving widow manages to look a little upset before springing on to her lawyers and filing a defamation suit against the dearly departed's children from his previous marriage, along with challenging the prenup.

Rich widows do not, on the whole, marry poets living in a garret; they seem to go for someone with even more property acreage than their own.

In another life, they would have been bankers and in some ways they are... do they not accumulate humungous amounts of dosh?

With them in charge, there would have been no financial crash, for frankly, the chances of them risking a penny of their moolah would have been unthinkable.

"It's as easy to fall in love with a rich man as a poor one," said someone I once knew.

Amen to that.

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