Linda Eastman was never beautiful as a child. A tall strawberry blonde, her lengthy face might be attractive or plain.

However, she had a voluptuous figure and a flirty style that guys liked. In two years as a freelance photographer, she gained 20 lovers, most of them were celebrities.

Her favorite rock stars to pose were Mick Jagger, Tim Buckley, and Jim Morrison, but she also liked gorgeous Hollywood actors.

A new biography says Paul McCartney’s gorgeous girlfriend Jane Asher couldn’t compete with ‘groping groupie’ Linda Eastman.
Danny Fields, who edited Datebook, bought her photos and interviewed Warren Beatty with Linda.

She took pictures like a cat on the rug or sofa. All you could hear was the shutter click. She asked the next day, “Guess who I spent the night with?”

Linda was called a groupie because of 1966-68. A former acquaintance called her ‘a groping groupie who was into capturing stars with little or no film in her camera’.

Though she appreciated her brief romances, she was a single mother looking for something more permanent.

She wanted a rich, groovy man to care for her and her little daughter, Heather, the result of a failed marriage. Her top objective was a Beatle.

Paul enjoyed clubbing with a group of musicians. late night home. Jane disliked clubs. She simply liked pop politely and never did drugs.

Baby-faced one looked good to her. Before meeting The Beatles, she told Nat Weiss, Brian Epstein’s American business associate, that she was going to marry Paul McCartney.

It seemed implausible. After all, Linda lived in near-obscurity in New York while Paul, already famous, stayed in London with his beautiful, redhaired lover, actress Jane Asher.

However, Weiss believed the determined American would win her Beatle.

Each band member liked Jane Asher. She met Paul in April 1963 while reviewing a Beatles concert at London’s Royal Albert Hall.

At the time, Jane was as renowned as The Beatles. Still two weeks shy of her 17th birthday, she had been acting since age five and appeared frequently on Juke Box Jury.

Joking, flirting, and asking her to marry them, the Beatles surrounded her.

Later, Jane joined them at a Chelsea flat party where the boys took pills and drank all the wine. Unfortunately, John Lennon was in a rage and made ugly sexual remarks to the young actress.

Paul and ex-girlfriend Jane Asher in 1968.
But Paul saved her from his boorish mate and took her to the bedroom to discuss their favorite foods. Thus began his greatest romance. Jane preferred Beethoven to The Beatles as a teenager.

She resided in a big, 18th-century Wimpole Street house with her siblings, her aristocratic mother, Margaret, a professional oboist, and her father, Richard, head of the Central Middlesex Hospital psychiatric department.

In contrast to Paul’s working-class Liverpool upbringing, the Ashers were an upper-middle-class family with sophisticated interests.

While sitting at their opulent dining-room table, he became a music star, gaining the education he missed out on at college and possibly social climbing.

After turning 21 and watching She Loves You reach number one, Paul accompanied Jane to Greece with Ringo Starr and his Liverpool lover Maureen Cox.

They went to the Parthenon because Jane wanted to see culture in Greece. Ringo complained, ‘I recall going around the Parthenon three times – I guess to make Jane happy – and it was incredibly tiresome.

British Beatlemania was likely to follow. Hardcore fans trailed Paul everywhere and found him in a boxroom at the top of the Ashers’ home, guarding their front door.

Dr. Asher arranged for Paul to climb out of his bedroom window, four storeys above the street, climb back into the apartment of a retired colonel next door, and exit the building through the basement flat’s mews back door.

Paul stayed with the Ashers for three years after becoming a wealthy and the Beatles buying enormous rural properties.

Linda stares at Paul at the Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band press launch. The pair married two years later.
But all the attractions were too much for him. The next year, at a Beverly Hills party, he met a stunning 19-year-old actress named Peggy Lipton while touring America with The Beatles.

He played piano for her after calling her to his hotel room that night.

Soon, we were upstairs. Peggy recalls his hugging and kissing her.

on slow things down, I took a shower and came out wrapped in a towel. He touched me and let the towel fall on the floor.

He had one more encounter but seems to have forgotten her. Instead, he went Jane house-hunting upon his return. Their £40,000 St John’s Wood home is still his London base.

Paul gave Jane a diamond pendant for her birthday during house renovations. But his eye wandered.

He slept with Peggy again during The Beatles’ second US tour break. She was not his only mistake.

In the U.S., film studios have abused girls, he told his cousin Mike Robbins. He asked, “Have you tried four in bed?”“Four in a bed?”

“Yes.” Three lovely blondes and him. Mike said, ‘Gor blimey!’

The Beatles had five U.S. number ones in 1965, including Paul’s Yesterday, their most successful single.

In a few years, he became as famous as the Queen in the West.

Meanwhile, Jane grew. She cheerfully let Paul choose their activities, vacation spots, and attire when they first met.

After almost three years, she was less biddable.

After Christmas, she performed in The Happiest Days Of Your Life at Bristol Old Vic, keeping her in the West Country.

During this time, she and Paul argued and split before reconciling.

He later said that he wanted Jane to give up work, even though his mother was a midwife. “I know now I was just being silly.”

In 1978, the pair takes a Thames boat ride.
He was alone in London and started seeing Maggie McGivern, a beautiful nanny, who said they had a three-year affair without Jane’s knowledge.

They met secretly in auction rooms where Paul was buying antique furniture for his new house and in Regent’s Park where he walked his Old English sheepdog.

Paul and Maggie even took illegal European vacations while Jane was away.

According to his friend Barry Miles, Maggie was ‘only one among many’ and they saw each other on and off for years.

Paul was lured to aristocrats, bohemians, and attractive girls by 1966 for their money, drugs, and quick pace.

Paul and Jane realized their differences after moving in together in St John’s Wood. Paul often took a group of musicians and bohemians home from clubbing late at night. Jane disliked clubs.

She simply liked pop politely and never did drugs. Her theatrical buddies didn’t fit Paul’s group.

Friday, January 13, 1967, she flew to the US with the Bristol Old Vic for a four-and-a-half-month tour. Paul missed her departure from Heathrow.

He wouldn’t spend all that time alone, even if he enjoyed it.

He would invite his friends around, pick girls up, drink, take drugs, leave his clothing and dishes unwashed.

Dudley Edwards, an artist, and Prince Stanislas Klossowski de Rola, Balthus’ playboy son, arrived to entertain him.

Stash and his Rolling Stone friend Brian Jones were accused with cocaine and cannabis possession.

Stash says the three young guys entertained harems of girls in St John’s Wood while Beatles fans tented outside, pouring in ‘sort of like animals breaking through a fence’.

‘Linda ran to Paul, crouching by the hearth and staring at him’

Paul, Dudley, and Stash drove to London’s trendy Bag o’Nails club one night in May 1967. Many of Paul’s friends, including Beatles’ Peter Brown, were there.

Peter introduced Paul to Linda Eastman, an American musician photographer in town.

Dudley returned from the bar to see Paul and Linda talking. Paul asked everyone back to his house after Dudley matched with Lulu.

Linda entered one of the world’s most eligible bachelors’ home 30 minutes later. Whether she slept with him that night is unclear.

Stash and Dudley say it wasn’t noteworthy at the time. Dudley says, ‘You simply think, it’s yet another female, and yet another night.

Lin, as Paul nicknamed her, captivated him. He liked blondes. He loved that she was maternal as a single mother. He liked that she was affluent like Jane.

Linda, the daughter of a New York lawyer, was the family black sheep because she struggled in school.

She followed pop stars in her teens and married anthropologist Melville See Jr. in 1962 after becoming pregnant.

The marriage failed because Mel was an intellectual and Linda hardly read. They split two years later. Linda returned Heather to New York and divorced Mel the next year.

She was in London to photograph The Beatles for Rock And Other Four Letter Words.

Paul and Linda married at Marylebone registry office in 1969.
Linda joined Beatles manager Brian Epstein at his Belgravia house for the press launch of Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band a few days after meeting Paul.

She ran to Paul, crouched at his feet by the hearth and staring at him.

She tried phoning him at home that weekend but got Stash. Paul was in Liverpool, he said. Linda still wanted to come over.

She did and went to bed with Stash. What a strange weekend. Paul called to inform his lodger to leave as Stash and Linda were rolling about. Stash took Linda to Graham Nash’s house.

Their affair became known in London’s rock scene. I was teased extensively by Roger Daltrey and [Jimi] Hendrix and so on, because Linda had gone around, explains Stash ungallantly.

‘But . ..You have to remember that everyone had open relationships and jealousy was taboo.

After flying back to New York, Linda talked about Paul McCartney, not Stash. She informed Nat Weiss, who was on the trip, that she would marry the Beatle again.

Soon after Linda left, Jane returned from her U.S. tour. After throwing an all-weekend party with Paul to commemorate Sgt. Pepper, she flew with him to Scotland, where he had bought a farm for a holiday home. The romance resumed.

Jane plainly chose to give her sweetheart another chance, seeking to join in with Paul’s hippy buddies and tolerate the drug use.

He proposed with a diamond ring around Christmas. Her lover appeared to be off the market.

No, according to Linda. Five months later, in May 1968, she attended Paul and John’s New York hotel press conference.

Later, she said, ‘I managed to slip him my phone number. He called me to say they were going that evening and wanted me to go to the airport with him and John. I went out in their limousine between Paul and John.

Paul and Linda spent the day on a motorboat drinking champagne, eating bacon sandwiches, getting stoned, and canoodling. Like Beatle, she was a pothead.

Nat Weiss, another car passenger, realized this was Linda’s unrelenting Beatle campaign. ‘But I don’t think he’d made his mind up on Linda at that point,’ he recalls.

Even after returning to the UK, Paul looked loyal to Jane. Tony Barrow, Beatles PR, recalls, ‘They could not have been more lovey-dovey.

After Jane returned to the Old Vic, Paul slept with another woman. Francie Schwartz, a nondescript 24-year-old New Yorker with prematurely grey hair, bought a ticket to London to pitch Apple a film project to The Beatles.

When they met at Apple, Paul flirted with her aggressively and jumped into bed with her after calling at her Chelsea flat.

Soon, she called him Mr. Plump and he called her Clancy, and he let her move into the St. John’s Wood house when Jane was gone. Francie says, ‘I stayed in the house for weeks, cleaning, reading, contacting the dope dealer.

However, Paul soon left for LA. He left a note with Linda’s answering service in New York, suggesting he could be reached at the Beverly Hills Hotel prior to heading west.

That night, he clubbed in LA and returned to find chicks lined up at his hotel bungalow. Paul changed clothes between business meetings the next day.

There was Linda!Tony Bramwell, a Beatles employee, recalls. “Sitting on the doorstep.”

She took the first flight from New York to LA after receiving Paul’s message. Bramwell explains, “So immediately, Paul got me to clear away all the birds, and just locked himself in the room with her.”

Paul and Linda spent the day on a motorboat drinking champagne, eating bacon sandwiches, getting stoned, and canoodling.

She was a pothead like the Beatle, bringing a bag of weed. After checking out the next day, Bramwell recalls they were ‘like Siamese twins, holding hands and staring into each other’s eyes all the way to the airport’.

In London, Paul continued his Francie Schwartz relationship. She says their love was wild. He would pull her into the bath or make love on Primrose Hill.

After taking her to a new club, Paul made love to another girlfriend on the way home. Francie humiliated herself by waiting downstairs for Mr. Plump.

Someone knocked on their bedroom door one morning while they were in bed. Who’s it?he asked.

‘Jane,’ said his fiancée, who had returned to London for a performance. Paul jumped out of bed, dressed, and took Jane to the garden. He shouted at Francie to return inside when he saw her at an open window.

Jane was fed up. Within hours, her mother packed her possessions.

Jane stated on a TV chat show that their relationship was ‘finished’, surprising Paul. He gave Francie her marching orders anyhow.

Linda finally had a clean path after sleeping with another rock star.