“And Maureen came up to my room to tell me in the middle of the night, and then all hell let loose after that. “Ringo phoned from New York, because he heard the news first, he’d phoned Maureen,” Cynthia said in 1995 – referring to Ringo’s ex, Maureen Cox, with whom she was staying. She later married a businessman named John Twist, but they ended their marriage in 1983.ĭuring her marriage to Twist, John Lennon was murdered. Lennon reportedly had multiple affairs during the course of their marriage, and they divorced in November 1968 after Cynthia discovered Lennon’s relationship with Yoko Ono.Ī little over a year later, she married Italian hotelier Roberto Bessanini – Julian was a page boy at the wedding, and model Twiggy was in attendance – but they divorced in 1973. John Lennon divorced his first wife, Cynthia Lennon, in 1968, after an acrimonious split that history pegs to the Beatle meeting and falling for Yoko Ono. Hunter Davies, who penned the only official biography of The Beatles in 1968, paid. The Beatles’ manager, Brian Epstein, urged the Lennons to keep their marriage secret as the group began blowing up, since he felt it would affect the group’s image, though it hit the newspapers after Julian’s birth. Cynthia Lennon dead: Yoko Ono pays tribute to John Lennon’s first wife, says 'she was a great person'. The couple’s son, Julian, was born on April 8th of the following year. News & World Reportand The Ultimate Beatles Encyclopedia. Later that night, Lennon played a gig with the Beatles and spent most of his time in the months that followed touring, according to U.S. The couple later had lunch with Harrison and McCartney at a nearby restaurant. The witnesses were Paul McCartney, George Harrison, manager Brian Epstein and her brother Tony and his wife.

They were wed on August 23rd, 1962 at a London register’s office. Upon learning she was pregnant, John insisted they marry. It was an attraction that I couldn’t help.” “I was fascinated to the point where I wanted to know who he was, what he was, where he’d come from and what had made him into who he was at that time, which we all found out later on. “It was just an instant attraction…something about him that was for me,” she once told interviewer Gary James.

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