John Lennon’s nights of sex and lust that Yoko Ono tried (and couldn’t) stop

As Mintz explains, American radio and television personality Yoko Ono “exiled” her husband to Los Angeles with Pang, and ended up having an affair with the consent of Ono, who actually wanted remove to the former Beatle of the sex bacchanals which he had begun to become fond of. “Yoko told Pang, ‘John and I don’t connect much lately. He’s going to start dating other people. I think you’ll be good for him.”

According to Mintz, Ono’s plan began to take shape when Lennon had “loud, raucous sex” with a woman at the party of politician-turned-Wall Street investor Jerry Rubin in 1972. Ono I was in another room but heard it all in the company of Mintz, who was caught in the middle of the couple’s drama. «Yoko sat on the sofa, in stunned and mortified silence, while other guests began to awkwardly get up to leave, until they realized that their coats were in the bedroom where John was having sex», says Mintz. «Sometimes dealing with them became an intrusion for me. At what point do you stop it? Keep in mind, I was never paid.”

Yoko Ono chose Pang as Lennon’s girlfriend, but according to Mintz this did not stop the musician’s libidosince according to what he claims, he had many other lovers during the ‘Lost Weekend’. «Once he called me, woke me up and told me to go to an address. I found Lennon in bed alone and under the covers while a woman in a bathrobe waited in the next room. “John looked at me and said, ‘Get rid of her.'” Mintz did as Lennon asked, but told him it would be the last time he did those kinds of favors. “John got angry about that,” Mintz said. “He yelled at me and said, ‘I’m going to ask you to do anything I want to ask you.'”

Lennon later apologized to Mintz: “I’m sorry I yelled at you. But you can’t tell me what I can or can’t say. At that time, Mintz he talked secretly with Ono “every night,” but he didn’t tell her anything about Lennon’s sexual adventures. Ono also constantly called Pang, as she revealed. «He called 20 times a day. Sometimes it was at 4 in the morning and the calls were not at all. It said, ‘I just went for a walk.’ I told him: ‘And? But there was no ‘and’.” Later, Lennon returned to New York, reconnected with Ono and they went to live in the Dakota building.

“John told me, ‘Yoko is allowing me to come back.’ I asked him whose idea it was. He replied: ‘Nobody’s.’ That was the end. “It affected me a lot,” said Pang, who stopped working for the couple and got a job at Island Records, but for the next five years he had telephone conversations where he shared “sexual intimacies” with Lennon, and according to her, the last time he called her was six months before Mark David Chapman fatally shot her outside the Dakota in December 1980.

Obsession with thinness

Another of the most surprising revelations in Mintz’s memoirs is that the couple was “obsessed” with thinness. «John kept a diary in which every day He wrote what his weight was. Yoko and John had endless questions about this topic. Lennon even once called Mintz at 4 in the morning and asked him to find “diet pills.” “They thought that everyone in Hollywood was thin and slender and that there were magic diet pills,” Mintz says, “and they insisted that he get them,” although in the end he didn’t.

Although the couple always seemed quite thin, Mintz describes their rotating racks of clothes “like a Manhattan boutique,” organized “by waist size,” he says, “and with a big wraparound staircase so they could reach the tightest boxes.” high. “They kept their various jeans and pantsuits, whatever, in different waist size categories, from 28 inches to 32 or so, depending on how they perceived their weight and how tight the pants fit.”