What is possibly the last pictures of John Lennon with Kyoko Chan Cox, Yoko Ono’s daughter fro
What is possibly the last pictures of John Lennon with Kyoko Chan Cox, Yoko Ono’s daughter from her second marriage with Tony Cox. This would’ve been April 1971 in Majorca, Spain.After Yoko and Tony’s divorce, neither won sole custody. Yet Cox became increasingly reluctant to let Yoko and her new husband spend time with Kyoko, and finally refused to permit it at all. For a year before the Lennons came to America, they had been chasing Mr. Cox and Kyoko around Europe. In Majorca, Spain, the Lennons caught up with them and spirited Kyoko off to their hotel; but Mr. Cox called the police, and a Spanish court gave the child back to him. The incident added to his fear that the Lennons wanted to take her away from him for good. After their failed visit to Majorca, Yoko was awarded permanent custody by the United States Virgin Islands court. But, the legal battle would go on as Tony joined a religious cult known as The Walk and refused to reveal Kyoko’s location or allow Yoko and John to visit. Kyoko was also taught by Tony that she was rescued from her mother, who “was involved in drugs and the occult” and “stood for corruption”. Yoko and John continued searching for Kyoko for much of the 1970s. Kyoko wouldn’t reunite with her mother until 1998. [From the 1980 Playboy Interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono:] ONO: “I lost Kyoko when she was about five…”PLAYBOY: "What happened when she was five?”ONO: “John and I got together and I separated from my ex-husband.” (Tony Cox) “He took Kyoko away. It became a case of parent kidnapping and we tried to get her back…" LENNON: ”…We chased him all over the world. God knows where he went. So if you’re reading this, Tony, let’s grow up about it. It’s gone. We don’t want to chase you anymore, because we’ve done enough damage… It was like we were after an escaped convict…“ONO: ”…She is totally frightened. There was a time in Spain when a lawyer and John thought that we should kidnap her.“LENNON: (sighing) "I was just going to commit hara-kiri first.”ONO: “And we did kidnap her and went to court. The court did a very sensible thing… the judge took her into a room and asked her which one of us she wanted to go with. Of course, she said Tony. We had scared her to death.” -- source link
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