However … What's False … McCartney returned a single John Lennon letter, not multiple letters, and he did so several years, not several days, after the letters were sold. In May 2024, a number of viral posts on Facebook, X, LinkedIn and other social media platforms claimed that after John Lennon's first wife, Cynthia Lennon, sold the couple's love letters following their divorce, John Lennon's Beatles bandmate Paul McCartney bought the letters and returned them to her. It is true that McCartney purchased, framed and returned one of the letters Cynthia Lennon sold after her 1968 divorce from John Lennon. Love, Paul McCartney." Several years later, the 2012 book "The John Lennon Letters" republished it along with 284 other letters written by the onetime Beatle.

Source: Washington Post June 08, 2024 13:07 UTC