Wednesday 21 September 2022 10:56 PM TOM LEONARD: What's the truth about the Adam Levine now accused of pursuing ... trends now

When Victoria's Secret model Behati Prinsloo gushed to TV chat show queen Ellen DeGeneres three years ago that she would love to have a big family with her pop star husband Adam Levine, she did at least admit to having one reservation. He had a tendency to come up with truly bizarre names for their children.

They discussed how it had in fact been DeGeneres, a friend of Levine, who'd suggested 'Dusty Rose' (after British singer Dusty Springfield) to him for their first daughter and how the frontman of pop rock mega-band Maroon 5 enthusiastically went with it.

But the Namibian-born Prinsloo admitted that, coming as she did from solid Afrikaner farmer stock, she'd initially been very sceptical about such Hollywood affectation. What would her parents — her father is a church minister, her mother runs a B&B — think, she wondered, and concluded: 'Dusty? No way.'

But she gradually warmed to it and they went on to have another daughter, whose name, Gio Grace, also sounds like it came from Levine.

It's now safe to assume, however, that with a third child due soon, Dad has been relieved of baby-naming duties for the foreseeable future. For, according to Sumner Stroh, a 23-year-old model and social media star, the heavily tattooed singer had a year-long affair with her after he convinced her his marriage had crumbled. Not only that but, as Prinsloo, 34, became pregnant for a third time, Stroh claims Levine had got back in touch with her to say he wanted to call the baby — if it was a boy — after her.

We don't know for certain whether 'Sumner' has indeed been floated as a potential baby name around the couple's $52 million Montecito mansion home in recent months, but it's certainly true that Ms Stroh's sensational accusations have not gone unremarked chez Levine.

The 43-year-old American singer, estimated to be worth $160 million (£140 million), has publicly insisted he didn't 'cheat' on his wife, although he admits he 'crossed the line' with Stroh.

Levine — who has penned such hits as Girls Like You, Never Gonna Leave This Bed and Won't Go Home Without You — said he and his wife are working to sort out their eight-year marriage 'together'.

But that was before three more women — one of them his former yoga instructor — yesterday came forward with their own allegations of his lecherous behaviour.

While Maroon 5 have sold more than 135 million records, the frontman has long been famous as much for his girlfriends as for his hits.

And it isn't the first time the rakish pop star, whose pre-marriage romantic life was an exhausting array of swimsuit models, cocktail waitresses and blonde actresses including Cameron Diaz and Jessica Simpson, has had to defend his love life.

To borrow the title of one of Maroon 5's biggest hits, Moves Like Jagger, Levine certainly appears intent on emulating the bed-hopping antics of the Rolling Stones singer when it comes to women. In a 2012 interview, Levine admitted he'd had a 'promiscuous' phase and attributed his desire to sleep with so many women to the fact that he 'loved them so much'.

Three years earlier, he told Cosmopolitan that men, himself included, couldn't help cheating.

'Instinctively, monogamy is not in our genetic make-up,' he intoned authoritatively. 'People cheat. I have cheated. And you know what? There is nothing worse than the feeling of doing it.'

That last statement may, in his case, be treated with a little caution given the weight of allegations he now faces.

Levine's nightmare started on Monday when Sumner Stroh posted a video on the social media site TikTok revealing their alleged affair just five days after Prinsloo had announced she and Levine were expecting their third child.

The video — posted just two days before Dusty's sixth birthday — 'went viral' and has been watched more than 21 million times.

Ms Stroh didn't say when she had an affair with Levine but wrote: 'At the time, I was young and naive.' She said Levine had 'exploited' and 'manipulated' her, adding: 'I'm just going to rip the Band-Aid off.'

A social media influencer and 'Instagram model' who has 430,000 followers, she included in her video what appeared to be a string of lubricious Instagram messages between her and the singer's verified account.

'It is unreal how f***ing hot you are. Like it blows my mind,' he wrote in one exchange, adding: 'You are 50 times hotter in person. And so am I hahaha.'

She says they lost contact 'over a period of months' only for Levine to get back in touch this year to tell her he and Prinsloo were expecting their third child.

'OK serious question,' he wrote. 'I'm having another baby and if it's w [sic] boy I really wanna name it Sumner. You OK with that? DEAD serious.'

Ms Stroh went on: 'I was like "I'm in Hell". I have to be in Hell at this point . . . My morals were unknowingly compromised, I was completely manipulated.'

She added that she only went public

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