Bryan ferry wife

Bryan ferry wife, The 67-year-old musician – who had previously spoken of his luck at finding a younger woman to marry – has separated from Amanda Sheppard, the 30-year-old he married in January last year.

Friends say their relationship has been in trouble for several months and Miss Sheppard, a former PR executive, is now reportedly moving out of their home.

One friend told The Sun: “They haven’t seen eye to eye for a long time and drifted apart. It made sense for Amanda to move out and think about starting a new life without Bryan.”
A spokesman for Ferry declined to comment.

The pair married in a simple private ceremony at the Amanyara luxury beach resort on the Turks and Caicos Islands in January last year. Miss Sheppard, who is just months older than Ferry’s eldest son Otis, had been was introduced to the singer by one of his children.

In a magazine interview he said he counted himself lucky to have met someone so much younger than himself.
He said: “The interesting thing is – and I don’t want to say the wrong thing in case I get into trouble with my girlfriend – you never really meet people your own age who aren’t married.

“I’m very fortunate that I work in music, where you’re in touch with different age groups, either the audience or people you work with. It does help. Obviously I’m not ageist!”

In 1975 Ferry began a relationship with Jerry Hall, then a model who had featured on the cover of Roxy Music’s album Siren and was 11 years his junior. However, in 1977 she began an affair with Mick Jagger, leading the Rolling Stones singer to joke that he had rescued her, as he “couldn’t let her become Jerry Ferry.”

In 1982 Ferry married Lucy Helmore, a socialite 14 years younger than him, who had been the model for the album cover of Roxy Music’s Avalon album. The couple had four children before divorcing in 2003. There followed an affair with Katie Turner, a 22-year-old dancer who was 35 years his junior. Ferry and Miss Turner met while she worked as one of the dancers on Roxy Music’s reunion concert tour in 2001

Ferry has enjoyed one of the most enduring careers in British pop.
Born to a working class family in Washington, Co. Durham, – his father Fred was a farmer who also looked after local pit ponies – he studied fine art at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne before becoming a pottery teacher at Holland Park School in west London.

In 1971 he formed Roxy Music with a group of friends and went on to have a Top 5 hit with Virginia Plain, followed by several successful albums, including Manifesto, in 1979, and Flesh and Blood, in 1980.
Ferry also enjoyed a successful solo career after Roxy Music split in 1983 and is estimated to have amassed a fortune of £30 million over the course of his career.