The most notorious bad boys who ruled the '70s — where are they now?

The father-of-eight is a well-known ladies man, with many of his relationships significantly overlapping. During the '60s and '70s, Mick Jagger dated singer Marianne Faithfull, conducting an affair with the girlfriend of Rolling Stones bandmate Keith Richards, Anita Pallenberg.

The singer then got involved with musician Marsha Hunt and, during their relationship, started dating Bianca Pérez-Mora Macias. Mick and Bianca married in 1971, with Hunt having already welcomed the Rolling Stones frontman's first child the year prior. He seems to have settled down these days, and is now engaged to ballet dancer Melanie Hamrick.

There is extreme, there is legendary, and then there is Iggy Pop. As the fearless frontman of the seminal proto-punk band The Stooges, Iggy is widely revered as the "Godfather of Punk" - a title that cemented his status as rock’s ultimate wild child. Renowned for his chaotic and sometimes dangerous stage presence, one of his most notorious moments came during a performance in the early '70s. After unsuccessfully goading an audience member into stabbing him with a steak knife he had brought on stage, Iggy took matters into his own hands and carved a bloody "X" into his own chest.

Now 79, Iggy is still actively performing and has been married to his third wife, Nina Alu, since 2008. In 2010, he was inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame alongside The Stooges, and went on to receive a prestigious Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award in 2020.

In the '70s, Jack Nicholson formed half of Hollywood's favourite on-again-off-again relationships when he began dating Anjelica Huston in 1973. The relationship lasted 17 years, despite public gossip and alleged affairs.

He last appeared on screen in 2010's How Do You Know and has since retired, enjoying a peaceful life away from the spotlight that is the antithesis of his badboy persona. 

Three-time Oscar nominee Nick Nolte catapulted to global stardom following his breakthrough in the 1976 miniseries Rich Man, Poor Man. Prior to his big Hollywood break, the actor faced serious legal trouble In the '60s, he was arrested for selling counterfeit draft cards, resulting in a 45-year suspended prison sentence and a hefty fine. The Cape Fear star's rebellious streak made headlines again in 2002 when he was arrested for driving under the influence, resulting in a famously disheveled mugshot that went viral.

Today, Nolte is still working. He recently starred in The Golden Voice (2025) and the crime thriller Crime 101 (2026) alongside Chris Hemsworth and Jennifer Jason Leigh. Off-screen, Nolte has quietly settled down, marrying his fourth wife, actress Clytie Lane, in 2016, and the couple share a daughter, Sophia.

Lou Reed famously co-founded the Velvet Underground in the '60s and left the group in 1970, pursuing a solo career. But fans were just as interested in his private life. 

Lou met his first wife Bettye Kronstad in the middle of a three-day methamphetamine high, they divorced in 1973, the same year they married. Lou later went on to marry musician Sylvia Morales from 1980 - 1990, finally wedding singer Laurie Anderson in 2008 - remaining together until Lou's death in 2013.

Throughout the '70s and '80s, Rebel Without a Cause actor Dennis Hopper's bad behaviour took a turn for the bizarre. One such incident, when the actor was high on LSD, had him shooting a tree he believed to be a grizzly bear.

At the start of the decade, Dennis travelled to Peru for The Last Movie, leading cast and crew in taking an excessive amount of drugs. Reportedly, these meetings included 'whipping parties' and orgies, prompting controversy from the public. The actor died in 2010 at the age of 74 from prostate cancer.