![]() John’s marriage to Cynthia and Julian’s birth was reportedly kept a secret from the public as the band’s manager, Brian Epstein, believed they would hurt the band’s commercial success. John was an absent father to Julian and did not see his new-born son until three days after his birth, as he was on tour at the time, then immediately returned to touring after that. She gave birth to Julian a year later April 8 th, 1963. John Lennon met Cynthia Powell at university and married her in 1962 when he learned that she was pregnant. It has been a subject of debate for many years about why Julian was not included in Lennon’s will. The court case went on for sixteen years and while the exact details haven’t been revealed to the public, Julian eventually accepted around $26.3M to drop the lawsuit. The answer is somewhat complicated, as there has been a lengthy legal battle between John Lennon’s son from his first marriage, Julian Lennon, and John Lennon’s widow Yoko Ono. With his enormous musical legacy and vast earnings, the question became, who was going to get the money? ![]() John Lennon’s tragic and abrupt death in 1980 left the world stunned. ![]()
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