Rolling Stones guitarist Ronnie Wood has had relationships with a number of different women during his 23-year marriage to wife Jo, his former manager has claimed.

In a new book, Nick Cowan recalls one encounter when Wood is said to have briefly moved into a Manhattan hotel with actress Kelly LeBrock during the band's 1981 Tattoo You tour.

Cowan claims that he acted as a go-between with Wood's wife, who had recently bought a house on the West Side of New York.

The book, Fifty Tea Bags And A Bottle Of Rum, has been serialised in today's Sun newspaper.

It follows tabloid claims that Wood has struck up a relationship with 20-year-old Russian waitress Ekaterina Ivanova.

Cowan, who managed Wood for 22 years, claims Wood's wife was alert to his actions.

“She quickly made sure she never let Ronnie out of her sight. In fact she was the only Stones girl who always went on every tour, so much so that she was put on the payroll as Ronnie's PA,” he writes.

Wood was spotted last week with Ivanova in London's Primrose Hill.

(by Jason Gregory)