Living up to his squalid Libertines origins, Pete Doherty is apparently broke and living in a filthy doss house above a key cutters in Camden, in inner North London. According to London’s The Sun, who Pete used to sell stories to every time he needed quick drug cash, he’s living in a place so dodgy you wouldn’t bring your girlfriend or boyfriend’s parents home to it. Luckily, he’s paying off a massive outstanding tax bill and should get some smack money when The Libertines reunite for headline gigs at the Reading and Leeds festivals in August. The gigs are reputedly bringing them in a sweet £1.5 million.

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