Rolling Stone Mick Jagger has left his supermodel wife Jerry Hall after a dispute over her plans to embark their daughter Elizabeth, 14, on a modelling career, London's Daily Mirror reported this weekend.

The tab reported that Jagger went to his home in France on Thursday and left Hall and the couple's four children in London.

The Mirror said Jagger was visiting an old flame, model Carla Bruni, the night before he left his wife. Jagger was photographed leaving Bruni's Paris flat late Wednesday.

The Mirror reported that Jagger, who is staying at his Loire Valley chateau, told friends he needs "time, space and fresh air" to deal with the gravest crisis in the couple's rocky relationship.

Hall has consulted lawyers and ordered them to begin preparing for a bitter £100-million divorce battle, the paper said.

The row opened up after Jagger disagreed with Hall's approach to motherhood -- and her wish for Elizabeth to follow in her catwalk footsteps, The Mirror said.

Jagger wants Elizabeth -- a slender 5-foot-9 blonde -- to focus on school.

Jagger, 54, and Hall, 42, married in 1991 but have been together for 20 years.

Early in their marriage, in 1992, Hall announced she and Jagger were separating and blamed Bruni for the breakup.

While The Mirror reported Hall became so angry at one point in the stormy relationship that she banned Jagger from the family home in Richmond, friends say this is the first time Jagger has left Hall.

"He is not given to fits of rage and impulsiveness," a source said. "That is why he has never walked out on Jerry before. But this time he felt he had to do something to show Jerry that he isn't joking."