The first of Richards' children, Marlon Leon Sundeep was unsurprisingly brought up in a rather unconventional lifestyle. According to the Daily Mail, the rocker's first-born was raised on the road (via Alain Elkann Interviews) and became a Rolling Stones roadie at the age of six.
Described by Richards as acting "beyond his age" in his memoir, Marlon would reportedly wake the guitarist up for gigs and distract police if they knocked on the door of their hotel room. However, when Richards was busted for drugs with the Rolling Stones during their 1977 tour in Canada, Marlon was sent to live with his mother in New Jersey with her then 17-year-old boyfriend (via Daily Mail).
Anita Pallenberg would eventually decide to move back to the UK in 1988, but a teenage Marlon decided to stay in the U.S. alone. Richards had met Patti Hansen by this point, so Marlon was essentially abandoned. He didn't mind, however, "because it was exhausting with Anita and Keith".
While the relationship between father and son is a little unclear as they've kept it relatively private as they've grown older, Marlon did contribute to his dad's 2010 memoir "Life." Marlon also has three children of his own with model Lucie De La Falaise, and it's known that Richards is a very hands-on grandfather (via the Times). "He's bringing up his own kids in a very secure way, hands-on all the time, because he never got that," the musician said.
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