Getty Images Sting is not planning to leave behind his fortune to his children. The 74-year-old Police frontman, whose real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner, has previously said that he has no plans to leave his money behind for his six kids to inherit, and he doubled down on that claim during the Sunday (May 3) episode of CBS News Sunday Morning. "The worst thing you can do to a kid is to say, 'You don't have to work,'" he said. "I think that's a form of abuse that I hope I'm never guilty of.