{"id":35743,"date":"2013-05-17T08:39:58","date_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:39:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/?p=35743"},"modified":"2013-05-17T08:46:09","modified_gmt":"2013-05-17T12:46:09","slug":"rockers-ex-wife-reveals-how-they-got-drugs-into-the-bahamas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/2013\/05\/rockers-ex-wife-reveals-how-they-got-drugs-into-the-bahamas","title":{"rendered":"Rocker’s Ex-Wife Reveals How They Got Drugs Into The Bahamas"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>It was a meeting of two rock legends \u2014 Ronnie Wood, the guitarist of The Rolling Stones, and The Beatles drummer, Ringo Starr. The year was 1978 and the pair had been invited to the Bahamas to help record an album for an aspiring Colombian musician who had another job, too.<\/p>\n

He was a drug lord.<\/p>\n

In her candid tell-all book, It\u2019s Only Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll: 30 Years Married To A Rolling Stone<\/em>, Ronnie Wood\u2019s ex-wife Jo recounted how the \u201csharp-suited\u201d dealer named Victor \u2014 \u201cone of the small army of pharmaceutical Stones hangers-on\u201d \u2014 had them smuggle cigarettes laced with heroin into the Bahamas for their vacation.<\/p>\n

On the flight, \u201cVictor was acting like a mad man as he was smoking \u2018dirty cigarettes\u2019 or DCs \u2014 little roll-ups containing smack \u2014 which he was intending to take in to the Bahamas.\u201d<\/p>\n

Ever one to indulge, charismatic Ronnie, Jo\u2019s fledgling boyfriend, snuck off the plane\u2019s bathroom, Jo remembered.\u2028\u201cI didn\u2019t touch them, as they had the most revolting smell \u2014 if I think about it even now I gag \u2014 but Ronnie went into the bathroom for a sneaky puff. Shortly after he stumbled back to his seat, a flight attendant came over and crouched next to me.<\/p>\n

\u201cExcuse me,\u201d she said to Ronnie, \u201cbut I think your friend has left this in the toilet.\u201d<\/p>\n

Said Jo: \u201cShe was holding out the bag of DCs. Ronnie must have got so stoned he\u2019d left it in there.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cOh, God, I\u2019m sorry,\u201d he said. \u201cThank you ever so much. I\u2019ll get rid of them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Recalled Jo, \u201cShe smiled warmly. \u2018Not to worry. Would you like another drink?\u2019 Can you imagine that happening on a flight today?\u201d
\nAs the plane began its descent into Nassau, Jo said Victor \u201cdumped the bag\u201d of drugs in her lap.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs he was a drugs trafficker, I assumed that Victor would already have a plan in place to smuggle his stash through Customs, but as we started our descent he suddenly dumped the bag in my lap. It turned out that I was the plan,\u201d she wrote in the memoir, obtained by RadarOnline.com before its release on May 21.<\/p>\n

\u201cYou are taking this in your bag,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n

She responded: \u201cWhat? No way!\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cBut Ronnie thought it would be wiser to humor our host, so in the end we got a carton of duty-free cigarettes, removed all the cigarettes from the middle packet, stuffed Victor\u2019s stash in there, then carefully packed it up again to look like new.<\/p>\n

\u201cOf course, when we got to Customs they immediately zeroed in on me; I must have been giving off guilty vibes. As they went through my bag, I offered up a silent prayer of thanks that we hadn\u2019t hidden the stash in there. Then the inspector held up the duty-free bag containing the carton of cigarettes. \u2018Is this yours?\u2019 he asked me.<\/p>\n

\u2018No, I said, pointing at Victor. \u2018They\u2019re his!\u2019 I was damned if I was going to risk life in prison for him.<\/p>\n

\u201cAs Victor scowled at me, the inspector took out one packet and carefully checked inside, but to everyone\u2019s immense relief it wasn\u2019t the doctored one and we were finally waved through.\u201d<\/p>\n

As for his album, Jo said she couldn\u2019t recall it ever getting made!<\/p>\n

\u201cI think he just wanted the kudos of getting a Rolling Stone and a Beatle into the studio together \u2014 and soon after our holiday he was packed off to jail for many, many years, busted by his own dad who had never approved of his son\u2019s career path,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

By Dylan Howard<\/span><\/em>
\nRadar Online<\/span><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In her candid book, It\u2019s Only Rock \u2018N\u2019 Roll: 30 Years Married To A Rolling Stone, Ronnie Wood\u2019s ex-wife Jo says she and her husband used to smuggle cigarettes laced with heroin into the Bahamas for their vacation.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"rop_custom_images_group":[],"rop_custom_messages_group":[],"rop_publish_now":"initial","rop_publish_now_accounts":{"facebook_10223285771444175_51037792744":""},"rop_publish_now_history":[],"rop_publish_now_status":"pending","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[1668,1667,1669],"class_list":["post-35743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-entertainment","tag-memoir","tag-rock-n-roll","tag-rolling-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=35743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/35743\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=35743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=35743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bahamasb2b.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=35743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}