Daily Mirror (Northern Ireland)

Yoko’s go slow

Lennon widow makes son business director

- BY MARK JEFFERIES Showbiz Editor mark.jefferies@mirror.co.uk @Mirrorjeff­ers

YOKO Ono appears to have stopped working and has handed many of her business interests over to her son Sean as she slows down at the age of 87.

tweeted a video where she appeared to be reading from a script.

A report in the New York Post in July suggested she needs a wheelchair much of the time.

One of her last public appearance­s was at a 2017 award ceremony where she said “I’ve learned so much from having this illness” without specifying what it was. John and Yoko met i n London i n 1966 and married in 1969.

The Beatles broke up soon after and many fans blamed Yoko, who launched music and a peace movement with John. Yoko still lives in the Dakota building in New York, where John was shot dead in 1980. After his death she continued to promote peace and also held art exhibition­s and released music. A spokesman told the Mirror : “Yoko continues to oversee John’s estate but has drafted in Sean as a director to assist where necessary.”

The widow of Beatles legend John Lennon has been vocal for decades about global peace and used to personally attend exhibition­s of her artworks.

But she has not been seen in public for more than a year and on October 5 we can reveal Sean Yoko Lennon was appointed a

DIRECTOR ROLES

director at eight compa

Son Sean Lennon

nies linked to Yoko and the Beatles, including Apple Corp.

He also joined the board at Lensolo, which deals with music rights of some of John’s solo work.

On what would have been John’s 80th birthday in October, Sean made a BBC documentar­y and an

Apple Music show, but Yoko only

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PARTNERS John and Yoko
ON MOVE Yoko in her wheelchair in 2017 PARTNERS John and Yoko

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