Trudie Styler, left, with her husband Sting. Photo/AP
Trudie Styler, left, with her husband Sting. Photo/AP
Pop icon Sting says his children won't be getting trust funds from his vast fortune, assuming there's any money left in it.
The 16-time Grammy Award winner and former frontman of The Police, told The Mail on Sunday that his vast wealth would be "albatrosses" around the necks of hissix children.
The singer-songwriter who grew up in a shipbuilding community in northeast England says he told the kids: "There won't be much money left because we are spending it.
"People make assumptions, that they were born with a silver spoon in their mouth, but they have not been given a lot," he was quoted as saying.
"We have a lot of commitments. What comes in we spend, and there isn't much left."
Sting's wealth was estimated at £180 million by the Sunday Times Rich List.
The British star has two children, Joseph, 37, and Fuchsia, 32, with ex-wife Frances Tomelty, and four children, Brigitte, 30, Jake, 29, Elliot, 23, and 18-year-old Giacomo, with Trudie.
He added: "They have to work. All my kids know that and they rarely ask me for anything, which I appreciate. Obviously, if they were in trouble I would help them, but I've never really had to do that. They have this work ethic that makes them want to succeed on their own merit."
