Attorney Leon Wildes, who stood next to John Lennon and Yoko Ono in court, in public and on TV during the early 1970s as the famous couple successfully fought unrelenting deportation attempts by the Nixon Administration, died Monday, January 8, at New York’s Lenox Hill Hospital. He was 90.
His death was announced by his son Michael Wildes, the Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.
Wildes himself would share at least a fraction of the Lennons’ massive fame for a while in the early ’70s, appearing with the couple on various high-profile TV talk shows during the three-year litigation.
After Lennon and Ono, both outspoken critics of the war in Vietnam, moved to New York City following the break-up of the Beatles, they soon became targeted by the Nixon Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Lennon had been convicted in London in 1968 on a marijuana possession charge, and a waiver he...
His death was announced by his son Michael Wildes, the Mayor of Englewood, New Jersey.
Wildes himself would share at least a fraction of the Lennons’ massive fame for a while in the early ’70s, appearing with the couple on various high-profile TV talk shows during the three-year litigation.
After Lennon and Ono, both outspoken critics of the war in Vietnam, moved to New York City following the break-up of the Beatles, they soon became targeted by the Nixon Administration and the Immigration and Naturalization Service. Lennon had been convicted in London in 1968 on a marijuana possession charge, and a waiver he...
- 1/15/2024
- by Greg Evans
- Deadline Film + TV
On April 1, 1973, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, announced the birth of their new “conceptual” country, Nutopia. It might seem like it, but this is not an April Fools’ Day joke. The former Beatle and the avant-garde artist did announce their news to a room full of stunned journalists.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono announcing the creation of Nutopia | Bettmann/Getty Images The U.S. immigration services announced that John Lennon would be deported weeks before the creation of Nutopia
On March 23, 1973, John was issued an order from the U.S. Immigration Services to leave the country in 60 days. The decision came after Immigration learned of his 1968 conviction in England for possession of marijuana (per Ultimate Classic Rock).
John’s deportation order also stemmed from President Richard Nixon’s surveillance of the former Beatle. The president feared John’s political views and influence would hurt his chances in the 1972 presidential election.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono announcing the creation of Nutopia | Bettmann/Getty Images The U.S. immigration services announced that John Lennon would be deported weeks before the creation of Nutopia
On March 23, 1973, John was issued an order from the U.S. Immigration Services to leave the country in 60 days. The decision came after Immigration learned of his 1968 conviction in England for possession of marijuana (per Ultimate Classic Rock).
John’s deportation order also stemmed from President Richard Nixon’s surveillance of the former Beatle. The president feared John’s political views and influence would hurt his chances in the 1972 presidential election.
- 4/1/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
On April 1, 1973, John Lennon and his wife, Yoko Ono, announced the birth of their new “conceptual” country, Nutopia. It might seem like it, but this is not an April Fools’ Day joke. The former Beatle and the avant-garde artist did announce their news to a room full of stunned journalists.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono announcing the creation of Nutopia | Bettmann/Getty Images The U.S. immigration services announced that John Lennon would be deported weeks before the creation of Nutopia
On March 23, 1973, John was issued an order from the U.S. Immigration Services to leave the country in 60 days. The decision came after Immigration learned of his 1968 conviction in England for possession of marijuana (per Ultimate Classic Rock).
John’s deportation order also stemmed from President Richard Nixon’s surveillance of the former Beatle. The president feared John’s political views and influence would hurt his chances in the 1972 presidential election.
John Lennon and Yoko Ono announcing the creation of Nutopia | Bettmann/Getty Images The U.S. immigration services announced that John Lennon would be deported weeks before the creation of Nutopia
On March 23, 1973, John was issued an order from the U.S. Immigration Services to leave the country in 60 days. The decision came after Immigration learned of his 1968 conviction in England for possession of marijuana (per Ultimate Classic Rock).
John’s deportation order also stemmed from President Richard Nixon’s surveillance of the former Beatle. The president feared John’s political views and influence would hurt his chances in the 1972 presidential election.
- 4/1/2023
- by Hannah Wigandt
- Showbiz Cheat Sheet
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