{"id":239223,"date":"2026-05-09T06:55:30","date_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/sting-explains-why-he-wont-be-leaving-his-6-kids-a-fortune-to-inherit\/"},"modified":"2026-05-09T06:55:30","modified_gmt":"2026-05-09T06:55:30","slug":"sting-explains-why-he-wont-be-leaving-his-6-kids-a-fortune-to-inherit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/09\/sting-explains-why-he-wont-be-leaving-his-6-kids-a-fortune-to-inherit\/","title":{"rendered":"Sting Explains Why He Won\u2019t Be Leaving His 6 Kids a Fortune to Inherit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<figure>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<figcaption><span class=\"copyright\">Getty Images<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><a href=\"\/tags\/sting\/\" class=\"celebrity-tag-link\"><strong class=\"celebrity-tag-strong\">Sting<\/strong><\/a> is not planning to leave behind his fortune to his children.<\/p>\n<p>The 74-year-old Police frontman, whose real name is <strong>Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner<\/strong>, has previously said that he has no plans to leave his money behind for his six kids to inherit, and he doubled down on that claim during the Sunday (May 3) episode of <em>CBS News Sunday Morning<\/em>.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;The worst thing you can do to a kid is to say, \u2018You don&#8217;t have to work,&#8217;&#8221; he said. &#8220;I think that&#8217;s a form of abuse that I hope I&#8217;m never guilty of.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>But he also added that he doesn&#8217;t think his kids are going to need that kind of inheritance because they &#8220;have been blessed with this extraordinary work ethic.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;All of my kids have been blessed with this extraordinary work ethic, whether it&#8217;s the DNA of it or whether I&#8217;ve said to them, \u2018Guys, you got to work. I&#8217;m spending our money. I&#8217;m paying for your education. You\u2019ve got shoes on your feet, go, get to work.&#8217;&#8221;<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-block-embed-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<div class=\"iframe-container\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p>He continued, &#8220;That&#8217;s not cruel. I think that there&#8217;s a kindness there, and a trust in them that they will make their own way. They&#8217;re tough, my kids.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><strong>Sting <\/strong>has six kids. He shares son <strong>Joe Sumner<\/strong>, 49, and daughter <strong>Fuschia Sumner<\/strong>, 44, with ex-wife <strong>Frances Tomelty<\/strong>. He and his second ex-wife <strong>Trudie Styler<\/strong> share <strong>Mickey Sumner<\/strong>, 42, <strong>Jake Sumner<\/strong>, 40, <strong>Eliot Sumner<\/strong>, 35, and <strong>Giacomo Sumner<\/strong>, 30.<\/p>\n<p>These celebrities <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/03\/08\/celebrities-who-have-said-they-do-not-want-kids-why\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">have said they never want kids<\/a> and their reasoning might shock you!<\/p>\n<p>The post <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/09\/sting-explains-why-he-wont-be-leaving-his-6-kids-a-fortune-to-inherit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sting Explains Why He Won&#8217;t Be Leaving His 6 Kids a Fortune to Inherit<\/a> appeared first on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Just Jared &#8211; Celebrity News and Gossip | Entertainment<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><br \/>\n<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.justjared.com\/2026\/05\/09\/sting-explains-why-he-wont-be-leaving-his-6-kids-a-fortune-to-inherit\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Source link <\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Getty Images Sting is not planning to leave behind his fortune to his children. The 74-year-old Police frontman, whose real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, has previously said that he has no plans to leave his money behind for his six kids to inherit, and he doubled down on that claim during the Sunday [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":239224,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-239223","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-lifestyle"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239223","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=239223"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/239223\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/239224"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=239223"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=239223"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/entertainment.runfyers.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=239223"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}