• Lennon's Stolen Patek Philippe Watch

    From Book Lover@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 12 02:36:13 2024
    The June 24th issue of The New Yorker has an interesting article about
    John's watch. Given to him by Yoko 4 months before his death it was
    locked in a room at the Dakota and reportedly stolen around 2005.

    Link to a PDF below https://vk.com/s/v1/doc/AbXalwRwWsqaqotMlBhbixq4WNhb_2rm5R9fUW-ThtLQyD86EtM

    And a shortened version of the link
    https://rb.gy/roy6zz

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 12 11:10:36 2024
    Great article! Thanks for posting the link.

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Fri Jul 12 22:06:15 2024
    Seriously, that was the best new Lennon-related article I've read in
    years.

    The writer knows his Lennonology -- to the extent of knowing that Ono
    was going to bed with Sam Green at the time she gave Lennon that super-expensive (and surely technologically over his head) watch. He
    even knows about Green's curious relationships with Barbara Baekeland
    and Greta Garbo.

    Somebody should write a book about Sam Green -- although Goldman
    practically did, if you extract his stuff on Green from the Lennon bio.

    I wish Ono's apparently thieving Turkish assistant would tell his side
    of the story in more detail.

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  • From Norbert@21:1/5 to All on Sun Jul 14 11:34:09 2024
    Incidentally, if one searches Google Images for "Yoko Ono, Koral
    Karsan," numerous photographs of the two walking together, leaving
    restaurants, etc., come up.

    A letter of Karsan's came up in one of their court cases in which he
    mentioned to Yoko that he had been her "confidant and lover." Given
    Yoko's shifting story as to what role Karsan played in her life (that as
    her story had shifted with regard to her earlier relationship with the
    gay decorator Sam Havadtoy), I'm inclined to think Karsan was being
    truthful.

    What, I wonder, led to Karsan's and Ono's falling out? Ono really has
    trouble maintaining friendships.

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