Jerry Hall gives up on her Mick Jagger memoir

Jerry Hall's much awaited autobiography, in which she was expected to give an "explosive" account of her life with Mick Jagger, including dishing the dirt on his affair with Carla Bruni, has been canned. According to friends, she is to hand back her £500,000 advance after failing to deliver publishers a rewrite after her first attempt was deemed not nearly as bitchy or salacious as they had hoped.

A friend of the former Texan supermodel and long-suffering Rolling Stone wife was reported by the Mail on Sunday to have said: "She went to Mick and said, 'I've been really nice about you in the book but they want me to give them more. Otherwise they won't publish, and I have to give the money back'."

This, of course, suited Mick just fine. But any suggestion that he offered to help Jerry financially if she gave up on the project was firmly denied by Jagger's spokesman.

What publishers HarperCollins had been hoping for were juicy details about Mick's "sex addiction" - he is said to have slept with 4,000 other women while Jerry raised his four children - and how he managed to get out of paying her a decent divorce settlement after successfully arguing that their wedding in Bali had no legal status.

Then there was the string of international models who invited themselves into his bed - not least of them Carla Bruni, who began her seven-year affair with Mick while Jerry was pregnant with her third child.

If Jagger himself is breathing a sigh of relief, Bruni can consider herself very lucky not to be having details of her fling with Jagger plastered across the French front pages as husband Nicolas Sarkozy marks his second anniversary in office. ·