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Pattie Boyd has sold her private collection of artifacts, which included the original painting from the cover of 1970’s Layla and Other Assorted Love Songs, as well as various items from her marriages to George Harrison and Eric Clapton. The painting, titled La Jeune Fille au Bouquet and created by Emile Theeodore Frandsen in the mid ’50s, was acquired by Clapton directly via the artist’s son in 1970. Clapton later gifted it to Harrison in the late ’70s, who in turn gifted to Boyd in the late ’80s. Boyd has now sold the painting for $2.5 million. Boyd’s collection, which sold for a total of $3...
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Das ehemalige Topmodel Pattie Boyd war mit gleich zwei bekannten Musikern verheiratet - mit dem früheren Beatle George Harrison und dem Gitarristen Eric Clapton. Erinnerungsstücke aus ihrer Vergangenheit sind in London nun für rund 2,8 Millionen Pfund (umgerechnet rund 3,3 Millionen Euro) versteigert worden, wie das Auktionshaus Christie's mitteilte. Versteigert wurde zum Beispiel ein Liebesbrief, den Clapton auf eine Seite des Romans «Von Mäusen und Menschen» schrieb. Darin fragte er Boyd 1971, warum sie noch zögere, ob er ein schlechter Liebhaber sei oder hässlich, zu schwach, zu stark? Boyd...
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Letters central to one of the most famous love triangles in rock history are set to hit the auction block. Pattie Boyd, the famed model who romanced both George Harrison and Eric Clapton, is putting more than 100 personal items up for auction. Among them, letters Clapton wrote to woo her away from the quiet Beatle, whom Boyd was married to from 1966 to 1977. “Eric wrote the most divine, beautiful letters, and I don’t want to keep reading them,” Boyd noted to the New York Times, explaining why she decided to sell the love notes. “It hurts.” “It seems like an eternity since I last saw or spoke t...
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Pattie Boyd is selling the "desperate and passionate" love letters she received from Eric Clapton and the late George Harrison. The 79-year-old model-turned-photographer finds it "heartbreaking" to read the missives penned by her ex-husbands but she is ready for someone else to "enjoy" the notes. Pattie - who was pursued by Eric while married to his close friend - told the Daily Telegraph newspaper: “I’ve had them all for so many years – far too long. I thought, why don’t I just sell everything and let everybody else enjoy it? “The letters from Eric – they’re so desperate and passionate, a pas...
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Pattie Boyd thinks men aren't "allowed to be proper men" any more. The 79-year-old model - who was previously married to late Beatles legend George Harrison and Eric Clapton and is now wed to Rod Weston - complained the #MeToo movement has led to guys feeling "attacked" and having to curb their natural behaviours. She told the 'My Wardrobe Malfunction' podcast: "I feel really sorry for men because they're not allowed to be proper men any longer, because they are attacked. "I think, Where have all the men gone? The women have sent them away." Pattie insisted she never had "any issues" with unwa...
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Twiggy has paid tribute to the late queen of Britain’s ‘Swinging Sixties‘ fashion Dame Mary Quant. The UK’s first supermodel, 73, who modelled for Mary, hailed her as a revolutionary business pioneer after the self-taught designer’s family revealed she had died aged 93 at her home in Surrey on Thursday (13.04.23) morning. Twiggy – real name Lesley Hornby – said on Instagram alongside a black and white photo of Dame Mary: “Mary Quant was such an influence on young girls in the late 50s (and) early 60s. “She revolutionised fashion and was a brilliant female entrepreneur. The 1960s would have nev...
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Pattie Boyd has joked she demanded royalties from ex-husband Eric Clapton as part of their divorce settlement for inspiring his rock classic ‘Layla’. The model and rock muse, now 78 and a successful writer, was wooed from her husband, Beatles guitarist George Harrison, after Eric played her his 1970 anthem and told her it was written in honour of his love for her. But she resisted leaving George, who died aged 58 in 2001, for Eric until the Beatle’s cheating led to their divorce in 1974. Pattie, who then divorced Eric, 77, in 1989, jokingly told the Sunday Times magazine she hasn’t received a ...
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Pattie Boyd has warned "freedom has been taken away" because young people are so "over-sensitive". The 78-year-old former model - who was previously married to late Beatles legend George Harrrison and Eric Clapton and is now wed to Rod Weston - misses the carefree days of the 1960s because she thinks modern society has become very restricted in a bid to not cause offence to anyone. She is quoted by the Daily Mail newspaper's Eden Confidential column as saying: "Everybody's so different, particularly young people now. You know, they're woke and over-sensitive about everything. And I thought, 'H...
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Pattie Boyd initially turned down a date with Beatles star George Harrison, but fate brought them back together. The 77-year-old model was married to the The Fab Four guitarist for 11 years from 1966 to 1977, but when they first met in March 1964 she was in a relationship with photographer Eric Swayne and spurned George's romantic overtures, almost missing on a relationship with the 'Something' singer. Speaking on the ‘Tea with Twiggy’ podcast, Pattie revealed the events that led to her eventual first date with George who asked her out after spending a day shooting The Beatles’ first film ‘A H...
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