It was not entirely an accident that John Lennon had an affair with May Pang.
From September 1973 to 1975, the Beatles icons went on their so-called “Lost Weekend”, which involved 18 months of sex, drugs and alcohol.
Elliot Mintz, who was a close friend of Lennon and Ono, told The Post while promoting her new memoir, “We All Shine On: John, Yoko, and Me,” that the Japanese singer moved with her husband to Los Angeles with Pang. who was his assistant – which led to a full-fledged love affair between the couple.
According to Mintz, Lennon had sex with a woman at a party for political radical turned Wall Street investor Jerry Rubin in 1972. Ono heard everything, leaving Mintz caught in the middle of the couple’s drama.
“Sometimes (dealing with them) becomes intrusive,” Mintz said. “At what point do you rein it in again? Keep in mind I was never paid.
While it is widely believed that Ono chose Pang as a surrogate girlfriend for him after Lennon’s “indiscretions”, Mintz said he remembers things differently.
Yoko “selected a then-assistant to accompany her and basically take care of her basic needs,” Yoko said.
Mintz said of Pang, “She did it very competently,” and added that her relationship with Lennon “transformed into something more than a detached husband and assistant.”
But as Mintz reveals, Pang was not the only woman with whom Lennon frolicked during his “Lost Weekend.”
“He called, woke me up and asked me to go to an address,” Mintz recalled, adding that he honored the request, arriving at a house he had never visited before and finding Lennon alone in bed and Found under the sheet. A woman wearing a bathing suit was waiting in the next room. “John just looked at me and said, ‘Get rid of him.'”
Mintz did what Lennon asked, but he told the famous singer that he had protected him in this way. “John got angry at him,” Mintz said. “He yelled at me and said, ‘I’m going to ask you to do everything I want to ask you.'”
Lennon later apologized to Mintz, the former radio DJ recalled. He claimed Lennon told him, “I’m sorry I yelled at you. But you can’t tell me what I can or can’t say.
At the time, Mintz was secretly talking to Ono “every night” but he was not telling her about Lennon’s negligence.
Meanwhile, Pang was still committed to Lennon.
The now 73-year-old shared her side of the affair story in an interview with The Post last year.
According to Pang, Ono “took advantage” of her and arranged for Pang to become Lennon’s girlfriend in 1973.
“Yoko said, ‘John and I aren’t getting along. He’s going to start going out with other people. I think you’d be good for him,'” Pang recalled that Ono said. Wanted to ”control the relationship”.
In September 1973, Lennon reportedly told Pang, “We’ve got to get out of New York, May. Just the two of us. Away from Yoko.” Pang claimed that the two moved to LA and fell in love while living together for 18 months.
Ono remained in New York but kept an eye on the relationship.
“She would call 20 times a day,” Pang said. “Sometimes it was 4 in the morning and the calls would not end. She would say, ‘I was just out for a walk.’ I’d say, ‘And?’ but there will be no one And,
Pang recalled that after he and Lennon returned to New York, Lennon eventually reconnected with Ono and spent a weekend with him at The Dakota.
Later, “John said to me, ‘Yoko is allowing me to come back,'” Pang said, “I asked whose idea it was. He said ‘Nobody’s.’ That was the end. It affected me a lot.”
Pang stopped working for Lennon and Ono and got a job at Island Records – but he claimed to The Post that over the next five years, he and Lennon had phone conversations and sexual intimacies.
He said the last time Lennon called him was six months before he was shot by Mark David Chapman in front of the Dakota in December 1980.
“I calmed down and called a friend to make sure I heard it correctly. The next thing I heard was that he was dead,” Pang recalled. “I dropped the phone and screamed. “Later, I spent a lot of time crying alone and talking to him spiritually.”
Pang married producer Tony Visconti in 1989 and had two children. They divorced in 2000.
Ono, now 91, was widowed after Lennon’s death and raised her son, Sean Lennon, alone. He never married again.
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