Rod Stewart’s Family Tree Revealed: A Newborn Grandchild, the Wife He Proposed to After 3 Weeks, and the Partner Who Sued Him for $25 Million — Photos

Rod Stewart has eight children with five women, and their stories rarely follow the route expected of a rock star’s family. Some entered entertainment, but others chose hockey, wellness, writing, business, and lives kept almost entirely away from public view.

Susannah Boffey and the Daughter They Could Not Raise

Stewart and his teenage girlfriend, Susannah Boffey, met at a nightclub before his music career took off. Their relationship produced his first child, but the young couple had neither the money nor the stability to raise her.

Their daughter was placed in care at one and moved between foster homes before Evelyn and Gerald Thubron adopted her at five. Boffey later said Stewart had romanticized their relationship in “Brighton Beach,” a song from his 2013 album “Time,” and accused him of abandoning both mother and child.

Stewart’s version carried guilt of its own. In a later interview, he recalled the fear of telling his parents about the pregnancy.

“My mum wanted to know if I was going to get married, and I said, ‘Well, not really, Mum,’ you know. She’s really old-fashioned. She said, ‘Well, she won’t get married in white, will she?’ I didn’t have a [expletive] clue what that meant.”

Boffey and Stewart never rebuilt their relationship. Yet the daughter they gave up eventually found a way back to her famous father, though that reconciliation took almost half a century.

Alana Stewart, His First Wife, Carried Private Pain Into Hollywood

Alana Stewart, born Alana Kaye Collins in San Diego on May 18, 1945, endured abandonment, poverty, and an unstable childhood in rural Texas. She escaped to New York, became a Ford model, and built an acting career that included “Evel Knievel,” “Night Call Nurses,” and “Delivered.”

She married actor George Hamilton in 1972 before marrying Stewart in 1979. Their glamorous life included famous friends and lavish travel, but she later acknowledged that she was deeply unhappy.

“I was expecting a man or the marriage to make me happy when it was really up to me to deal with what I had been holding deep inside me,” she told CBS12. “Happiness is an inside job, isn’t it?”

Her memoir, “Rearview Mirror“, addressed her marriages, bulimia, depression, sexual assault, family addiction, and the death of her best friend, Farrah Fawcett, from anal cancer in 2009.

The actress now runs the Farrah Fawcett Foundation and identifies herself on social media first and foremost as a mother to Ashley Hamilton, Kimberly Stewart, and Sean Stewart.

Kelly Emberg and the $25 Million Claim

Model and actress Kelly Emberg was born in Houston, Texas, on July 2, 1959. Her screen credits include “Portfolio,” “Dumb Luck in Vegas,” and “Art Be Damned!” Emberg met Stewart in 1983, and the two were living together by 1985. Their relationship ended in 1990 after they had welcomed their daughter, Ruby Stewart.

The separation soon entered a Los Angeles courtroom. Emberg filed a $25 million palimony claim, arguing that an agreement entitled her to half the assets accumulated during their relationship, including properties in Holmby Hills and Epping, England.

In June 1992, Judge David Horowitz dismissed the case, finding no merit in the claim that Stewart had promised to support Emberg for life. Stewart had already married his next wife by then.

Emberg eventually built a different kind of enterprise. She now describes herself on Instagram as the founder and CEO of sun-protection sportswear company BESO Shade, as well as an enthusiastic gardener and pickleball player.

Rachel Hunter and a Proposal Over Tuna Sandwiches

Rachel Hunter was born in Auckland, New Zealand, on September 8, 1969. An illness ended her childhood plans to become a ballet dancer, but modeling carried her from New Zealand to international magazine covers and eventually into acting.

Hunter was 21 when she met Stewart, who was 24 years older, in Los Angeles. During a 1996 television interview, she confirmed that he proposed only three weeks after they met, and that he did it over tuna fish sandwiches.

They married in Beverly Hills on December 15, 1990, three months into their romance. Their children, Renée Stewart and Liam Stewart, arrived in 1992 and 1994.

In a 1993 profile, Hunter described herself as the practical partner who kept their household organized. She also defended Stewart as an attentive father and welcomed his older children without trying to replace their mothers.

The couple separated in January 1999 after eight years together, although their divorce was not finalized until November 2009. Hunter later hosted “Rachel Hunter’s Tour of Beauty,” judged “New Zealand’s Got Talent,” and entered the South African jungle for the 2026 Australian season of “I’m a Celebrity…Get Me Out of Here!”

Her engagement to hockey player Jarret Stoll ended seven weeks before their planned 2009 wedding. As of 2026, Hunter had not publicly confirmed another relationship.

Penny Lancaster and the Small Rituals That Lasted

Penny Lancaster met Stewart in a nightclub after her friends dared her to request an autograph. When she mentioned studying photography, he invited her to photograph his concert the following night, a polished pickup line she later described in an interview as “crafty.”

But they did not meet again for nine months. When Stewart finally left a message on her landline asking to see her, Lancaster arrived for their reunion completely covered in brown pleather trousers, a rollneck, and a buttoned jacket because she wanted him to understand there was more to discover.

After five years together, Stewart proposed at the top of the Eiffel Tower in Paris on March 9, 2005. “I left it this long because I wanted to get it right this time,” he said in a statement confirmed by People.

The couple married in 2007 and became parents to Alastair Stewart and Aiden Stewart after Lancaster endured two miscarriages and underwent IVF for their younger son. Their relationship has lasted through deliberate attention rather than one grand romantic trick.

Lancaster said they made a pact never to spend more than 10 days apart. She also told the Mirror that they protect time for meals together and regularly check in with each other amid work and parenting.

Those modest acts of care became their real marital secret. A bath waiting after traffic, a glass of wine, a phone call after work, or a cup of tea mattered because each showed that one partner had remembered the other.

Now, let’s get to know his eight children.

Sarah Streeter, His Firstborn, Reclaimed the Word “Dad”

Sarah Streeter learned at 18 that Stewart was her biological father. The revelation stunned her, especially because she already had the singer’s poster hanging in her bedroom. They met several times during her 20s, but their connection faded by the late 1980s.

Nearly 20 years of minimal contact followed, leaving Streeter with unhappiness and resentment as she watched his public family life from afar. After her adoptive mother, Evelyn Thubron, died in 2007, Stewart reached out.

Calls, emails, dinners, and family gatherings gradually brought Streeter closer to him, Penny Lancaster, and several of her half-siblings. Their changing language revealed how far they had come.

Stewart told the Standard, “We’ve just began to call each other ‘father and daughter’, which was hard because I didn’t change nappies or take her to school, or help her do her homework.”

Streeter initially struggled to call him “Dad” because that name already belonged to Gerald Thubron, the man who raised her. Eventually, she accepted that both relationships could hold different places in her life.

Her bond with Boffey remained broken. Streeter said their personalities and expectations clashed when they met, while Boffey’s failure to acknowledge her adoptive mother’s death caused deeper hurt.

She also objected when Boffey linked her failed romantic relationships to unresolved feelings about Stewart. In the Daily Mail, Streeter insisted those relationships ended for reasons unrelated to her father. “I used to be like Susannah, full of resentment,” she admitted.