He never can get no satisfaction; the ego which strutted and pouted through the 1960s and 1970s needs as much support today as it ever did. Just as this grand-dad of a rocker could never grow up, so he would always have to indulge in the young man's habit of playing the market place in women too.
Like Warren Beatty and the positively rampant Jack Nicholson, Mick is a serial chaser.
There was Marianne Faithfull, his upmarket toy in the 1960s, then the more exotic Nicaraguan beauty Bianca Perez Macias in the 1970s.
His lip service towards middle age and respectability was his much-publicised love of cricket and statements like 'my money is Conservative'.
But he's much more at home with the midnight rambler image.
Even Hall, a model, was a conquest in some ways. She wanted to be with Mick but nonetheless he stole her from singer Bryan Ferry to whom she was then engaged. But within a year of their 1992 marriage he wandered off to supermodel Carla Bruni.
Hall was humiliated but said she hoped he would 'outgrow' his urges.
Nicole Kruk, aged 22, and a recent conquest, said she thought that sex itself was not of any great importance to the still pouting Jagger.
'What he still enjoyed was the thrill of the chase.' And if you've a GBP120 million (HK$1.47 billion) fortune and you've been trying out different kicks for decades then the thrill of the chase is probably about the only thrill there is left worth going for.
Two weeks ago it was revealed that he had spent the night in a Los Angeles hotel with Czech model Jana Rajlich, the same weekend as he was also spotted with Pulp Fiction star Uma Thurman.
Hall never expected him to be entirely faithful - she made that quite clear herself, but she did expect him to mature and, well, exercise a little more discretion.
Along with that, she is said to be worried about his apparent obsession not just to have more and more women, but to make sure that the world knows about them too. It is as if ageing rock stars still have to prove themselves.
And if Jagger still likes to be less than respectable, Hall, now 40, makes a great success of getting herself on to many of the best guest lists in London.
There is a theory that she may just be crying wolf, or delivering a final public warning that maybe he can't always get what he wants, but it's not yet all over now.
Using the Princess of Wales' lawyer is only one step removed from advertising her intentions in neon lights in Piccadilly Circus.
If she is seriously going for divorce she would get a much better deal out of the American courts, where as a Texan she would have every right to go for a settlement.
It could still be a big game. After all, Jerry herself could have retired from the catwalk years ago but she keeps returning as if to prove to Mick that she can be youthful too.
Or maybe this could be the last time, I don't know.
