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John Lennon’s Letter to Ex-Wife for Sale at Auction’s

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A letter written by John Lennon to his ex-wife disputing Yoko Ono’s involvement in their divorce is one of two letters up for auction. Both letters were written by the Beatles legend on Nov. 15, 1976, and both refer to Cynthia Lennon and her relationship with the media. The lot is estimated to be sold for $25,000 at the auction this week. Lennon and Powell, parents of Julian Lennon, were married in 1962. They divorced in 1968, and his affair with Ono, whom he’d met that same year, was cited as grounds for the split. Powell died in 2015. One letter, titled “An Open Letter to Cynthia Twist” (which was her married name at the time), was written as a response to an interview she’d given to a magazine. “As you and I well know, our marriage was over long before the advent of L.S.D. or Yoko Ono … and that’s reality!” he wrote. “Your memory is impaired to say the least. Your version of our first L.S.D. trip is rather vague, and you seem to have forgotten subsequent trips altogether! Lennon also referred to an episode involving mutual friends. “I don’t blame you for wanting to get away from your ‘Beatle’ past,” he concluded. “But if you are serious about it, you should try to avoid talking to and posing for magazines and newspapers! We did have some good years, so dwell on them for a change, and, as [Bob] Dylan says, it was ‘A Simple Twist of Fate’! Love & good luck to the three of you, from the three of us.” The letter was addressed to the editors of a magazine, with a handwritten introduction. “I would appreciate this letter being printed without any edits,” he wrote. “I think it only fair to me and your readers to present my side of the story. Thank you.” The firm responsible for the sale, R&R Auction Company LLC, notes that “Lennon’s clever pun at the close of the first letter, ‘A Simple Twist of Fate’ – a takeoff on Bob Dylan’s ode to a lost love – likely inspired his former spouse in her decision to title her forthcoming tell-all memoirs, A Twist of Lennon, which Twist was then publicizing. As Lennon’s official ‘side of the story,’ a public he-said-she-said self defense, these letters represent the unique final chapter in the life of the former Beatle and are thus of the utmost rarity and importance.” The post John Lennon’s Letter to Ex-Wife for Sale at Auction’s appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.

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R2-D2 sells at auction for over $2 million

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Owning a piece of film history doesn’t always come cheap. Case in point: an R2-D2 droid prop reportedly fetched an impressive $2.75 million, on June 28 at Profiles in History, an auction house in Calabasas, California.   The R2-D2 unit isn’t just from one of the Star Wars films, but from five of them. The complete R2-D2 prop was assembled from original components from Episodes IV, V, VI, I & II, according to the auction house’s description page. The droid sold is made up of the top dome and eye lens are from the R2-D2 filmed in “A New Hope.” The sold prop is also made using two legs from the R2-D2 droid in “The Empire Strikes Back” and another leg from “The Phantom Menace.” Various detail pieces on R2-D2 prop are from the body of the “A New Hope” R2-D2. This wasn’t the only Star Wars prop on the auction block. Luke Skywalker’s original lightsaber prop used in both “A New Hope” and “The Empire Strikes Back” was also sold at this Profiles in History auction for $390,000. The post R2-D2 sells at auction for over $2 million appeared first on Today's Evil Beet Gossip.