With a penchant for public nudity (well, wouldn't you, with a body like that?), the Jamaican-born performer received a lifetime ban from Florida's Walt Disney World in 1998 after she flashed her breasts on stage in front of a very young crowd. These days, the 68-year-old might only show off her sculpted cheekbones, but her days of partying were legendary. "We all had our fun, and now and then we went really too far," she has admitted. During the heady late 70s, Jones lived and partied in Paris with roommate Jerry Hall …

The Texan supermodel and former Mrs Mick Jagger was once a global ambassador for Levitra, a medication for erectile dysfunction. "I think older men make better lovers," she said. "They are more experienced … and if they do have problems, they can be easily fixed with a quick trip to the doctors." A star-studded, no doubt tittering audience recently gathered at Spencer House, in London, to celebrate the 59-year-old's marriage to an older codger: News Corp executive chairman Rupert Murdoch …

Taking to Twitter last July, the octogenarian criticised the immigration stance of presumptive Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump, but it seems the two billionaires have since kissed and made up. "Rupert is a tremendous guy," Trump replied, when asked recently what he thought of Murdoch. "And I think Rupert respects what I've done." Former newspaper tycoon Conrad Black's judgment was far more scathing: in 2012, he branded Murdoch an "astonishingly cold man" and compared him to Joseph Stalin …

As a man who enjoyed his privacy, it is said the Soviet dictator's guards were not allowed into his bedroom under any circumstances. If he screamed for help, any guard who came to his rescue would be executed. Killing more than 20 million people is quite a tally for any mass-murderer, but it's hardly one to inspire odes and sonnets. One notable exception is , the "best children's song written about Soviet Russia", according to its composer, always-a-comedian-never-a-pop-star John Robertson.