Sting and Wife Trudie's Love Nest Reveals Some Eyebrow-Raising Erotic Bedroom Art

Artistic licence: Trudie Styler says the artwork in the couple's bedroom makes her feel 'hot'

The Daily Mail reports:

Rumours about the exotic private life of Sting and Trudie Styler have included swingers' parties, strip clubs and tantric sex sessions lasting several hours.

Now some more tangible evidence of their colourful tastes has emerged.

The 56-year-old rock star and his wife have flung wide the doors of their £12million Manhattan apartment for an "at home" newspaper feature - with eyebrow-raising results.

The centrepiece of the 18-room apartment overlooking Central Park is an extraordinary scarlet bedroom embroidered in gold and dominated by two explicit Helmut Newton prints.

In one, an unidentified woman lays virtually naked, with her legs spread in the back of a vintage Mercedes as a man leans over from the front seat to unzip one of her spike-heeled boots.

The other image, above the bed head, shows the lower half of another female wearing just stockings, suspenders and high heels.

Miss Styler, 53, who once told a U.S. DJ that the couple enjoyed swingers' parties, before apparently retracting the claim, said of the room: "I find it hot."

Rumours about the racy private life of Sting and Trudie Styler have persisted for many years

She also curiously went on to admit that her son Giacomo once wanted to know if the photo of the almost nude, sprawled-out woman was his mother or sister. She told him it was neither.

Elsewhere in the apartment are rather more homely points of reference - cow paintings by daughter Mickey, family photos scattered in silver frames, a giant wall of Polaroids in the kitchen and Sting's lute resting on a sofa.

The musician has six children, namely Joseph, 31, and Fuchsia Katherine, 25, from his first marriage to actress Frances Tomelty, and Mickey, 23, Jake, 22, Coco, 17, and Giacomo, who was 12 this week, from his marriage to Trudie.

He also has homes in Mayfair and Malibu, and estates in Wiltshire and Tuscany.

The couple put the Manhattan property, which they have owned for 20 years - on the market last year, but have now taken it off, despite buying a further £15million home in a separate development in the city.

Foreclosed!

The AP reports:


No one showed up to bid on the former home of Scott and Laci Peterson, leaving a bank to take possession of the tidy house that was once at the center of a national drama.

A foreclosure auctioneer opened and closed bidding Friday on the small bungalow where the couple lived before the pregnant wife disappeared on Christmas Eve and her husband was charged with her murder.

With that, Modesto's most notorious piece of real estate became the property of a Simi Valley bank.

Its most recent owner, Gerry Roberts, purchased the house for $390,000 in 2005 — $10,000 more than the asking price — and declared he had just bought "probably the most controversial home in the world."

A few days later, a tabloid printed photos of a red-stained knife recovered from a patio cabinet, which forensic evidence later proved was not blood. Roberts blamed media interviews for the loss of his job shortly afterward, then put the home for sale on eBay.

Roberts filed for bankruptcy protection in February, listing $340,000 owed to the lender as his largest debt.

The home's front lawn, where hundreds had left flowers, stuffed animals and candles after Laci Peterson disappeared in December 2002, has since turned a sickly yellow and the trees appear to be dead or dying.

The remains of Peterson and her fetus were later recovered along the shore of the San Francisco Bay. Peterson was convicted of her murder in December 2004 and is currently on death row at San Quentin State Prison.

The family's former home joins about 4,500 others for sale in Stanislaus County, which has the third-highest foreclosure rates in the United States, just behind San Joaquin and Merced counties.