Celebrities Who Admitted To Sleeping With More Than 1,000 People
Charlie Sheen - 5,000
Charlie Sheen’s most Charlie Sheen quote came in 2000, when he told Maxim he’d slept with at least 5,000 women. It was the height of his “Sex Ma-Sheen” era, so the number sounded like a plotline he’d write for himself. Later interviews toyed with the legend, but the original claim was his, not a secondhand estimate. Mainstream outlets logged it at the time, and it still pops up whenever Sheen’s personal life gets revisited.
Wilt Chamberlain - 20,000
If there’s one number burned into pop culture, it’s Wilt Chamberlain’s 20,000 lovers claim. In his book, the NBA legend casually stated he’d been with that many women across his career. Fans and journalists have done the math for decades, averaging hundreds a year. Chamberlain himself later clarified that he wasn’t encouraging promiscuity, but rather illustrating the lifestyle of an untouchable sports star in the 1960s and 1970s. Still, the figure became iconic.
Jack Nicholson - 2,000
Jack Nicholson has long been as famous for his reputation with women as for his acting. Over the years, he’s openly described himself as a womaniser, once claiming that his number of sexual partners had crossed the 2,000 mark. In interviews, he even joked about having been with women of “every legal age,” going so far as to suggest that in some cases he had been with both mothers and their daughters, at the same time.
Lamar Odom - More than 2,000
Lamar Odom didn’t brag; he confessed. In his 2019 memoir Darkness to Light, the two-time NBA champ wrote that he’d slept with over 2,000 women, tying that number to an addiction spiral that mixed sex, drugs, and self-destruction. He called sex a “trigger” that fed bad choices, with a blur of one-night stands, “too many strippers to count.”
Mick Jagger - More than 4,000
The 4,000 attached to Mick is famous, but it’s biographer Christopher Andersen’s estimate. Andersen told Extra his research pointed to 4,000 (and maybe more), and People has repeated that as the number. Given Jagger’s legendary reputation as a rock-and-roll ladies’ man, the figure didn’t seem far-fetched. Andersen cited the decades of touring, groupies, and high-profile flings as evidence that Jagger’s love life was as excessive as his career. Mick himself has dodged specific tallies, preferring his usual sly smile over a scorecard.
Ric Flair - 10,000
Ric Flair didn’t earn the nickname “Nature Boy” for nothing. In the ESPN 30 for 30 documentary about his life, the wrestling icon casually dropped one of the most jaw-dropping boasts in sports entertainment history, he claimed to have slept with roughly 10,000 women. Flair framed it as part of the nonstop lifestyle that came with being the face of professional wrestling, “limousine-ridin’, jet-flyin’, kiss-stealin’."
George Lazenby - Around 1,000
George Lazenby may have only played James Bond once, but he took the 007 lifestyle seriously. In an interview, Lazenby claimed he had slept with “maybe a thousand” women, attributing it to the freewheeling atmosphere of the 1960s and the fame that came with being Bond.
Dennis Rodman - 2,000
Dennis Rodman never shied away from shocking headlines, and his 2,000-women confession fits perfectly into his legacy. In a 1998 interview later repeated in roundups, the former NBA bad boy claimed he had been with more than 2,000 women, joking that at least 500 were “gold diggers.”
Mick Hucknall - 3,000
Mick Hucknall did the unthinkable for a rock star, he apologized. In 2010, he told The Guardian that from 1985 to 1987, he slept with “about three women a day”, every day, which means more than 3,000 in that window. Unlike other stars, Hucknall explained the behavior as filling a void from childhood abandonment, and shared an apology to the women caught up in this phase.
Janice Dickinson - Over 1,000
Janice Dickinson’s memoirs and interviews are blunt, funny, and candid, and in the UK press, she has said she slept with more than 1,000 men. She’s told versions of her story across talk shows and magazines for years and did plenty of no-filter radio on Howard Stern.
Gene Simmons - Almost 5,000
Gene has given multiple versions of the same boast, but one he’s repeated about 4,800 women, complete with the infamous Polaroids. He’s joked, “so they tell me,” but the numbers have been consistent across interviews. Simmons said the women were often fans who threw themselves at the band, and he reveled in the rock-god persona that came with it. Years later, after marrying longtime partner Shannon Tweed, he revealed that she made him burn the infamous collection in a bonfire, closing the book on his playboy era.
Bill Wyman - 1,000 in a decade
Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman has estimated that he has about 1,000 partners, a number he’s connected to diaries and memories from the Stones’ most exciting decade. Interviews and profiles (and even a 1990 autobiography) revisit the count.
Hugh Hefner - More than 1,000
In a 2013 Esquire interview, saying it with that trademark half‑smile, he quipped, “How could I possibly know? Over a thousand, I'm sure.” True to the Playboy aesthetic, he clarified, “There were chunks of my life when I was married, and when I was married I never cheated. But I made up for it when I wasn’t married. You have to keep your hand in.” That line says it all: part cheeky confession, part devotion to the playboy brand he built.
Spencer Matthews - Above 1,000
Before the reinvention arc (sobriety, startups, and endurance feats), the Made in Chelsea star leaned into the Playboy persona and said he’d slept with around 1,000 women. The claim surfaced around the time of his 2013 memoir, Confessions of a Chelsea Boy, and was repeated in the mainstream UK press.
Bill Roache - 1,000
UK soap royalty Bill Roache (Ken Barlow on Coronation Street) stunned viewers on Piers Morgan’s Life Stories when he agreed his tally could be around 1,000. British papers ran with it, and later court reporting noted the TV moment existed, even as judges kept it out of unrelated proceedings. Roache himself has joked that he didn’t literally confirm a precise figure, but neither did he deny the ballpark estimate.
Warren Beatty - Estimated 12,000
Warren Beatty has carried the reputation of a legendary Hollywood ladies’ man for decades, but the figures attached to his name are staggering. An unofficial biography once calculated that Beatty had been with 12,775 women in his lifetime. To put that into perspective, it worked out to almost one new partner a day from the time he lost his virginity at 20 until his marriage at 55.
Julio Iglesias - 3,000
In a 2004 chat highlighted by CBS News, Iglesias laughed that the 3,000-women figure people tossed around was “probably… until 1976,” implying the total had only grown after that. Earlier profiles in the ’90s were already calling him “Mr. 3,000,” and he leaned into the romantic image while winking at the math.
Lemmy Kilmister - 1,200
Even Lemmy rolled his eyes at inflated numbers. When asked about a “2,000” claim, the Motörhead frontman said, “I never said 2,000. I said 1,000. It’s probably 1,200 or so now.” That’s pure Lemmy; blunt, unsentimental, and very rock-’n’-roll. He’s also said he didn’t do the drugs-and-booze stereotype so much as he did the sex-and-touring one.
Frank Bank - Over 1,000
Frank Bank may not be the first name you think of in Hollywood playboy circles, but the actor who played “Lumpy” on Leave It to Beaver made his own shocking confession. In his 1997 memoir Call Me Lumpy, Bank claimed he had slept with over 1,000 women during his acting career.
Blueface - 1,000 in 6 months
Only in 2019 rap radio could you get this soundbite on rap radio. Blueface went on Real 92.3 and claimed he slept with about 1,000 women in six months. There was even a tongue-in-cheek investigation of whether that was physically possible because, of course, they did. The boast exploded across hip-hop blogs and Instagram pull-quotes, cementing Blueface’s fast-life image right as “Thotiana” made him a star.
