Linda McCartney Net Worth

Linda McCartney's Quotes

• If slaughterhouses had glass walls, everyone would be a vegetarian.
• I think we should care more about each other, I think we should think about what we eat, and how we live....and maybe I'm a dreamer.

Interesting Facts about Linda McCartney

1. Daughter from her first marriage, pottery designer Heather McCartney.
2. Three children with Paul McCartney: photographer Mary McCartney (Donald), top fashion designer Stella McCartney and musician/sculptor James McCartney.
3. A top photographer whose pictures of rock stars in the 1960s led to her meeting her future husband, Paul McCartney (Sir Paul from 1997).
4. Oscar and Grammy nominee for co-writing the theme song of Live and Let Die (1973) with her husband.
5. Along with Paul McCartney and Denny Laine, performed with the group Wings through the 1970s.
6. A dedicated vegetarian who founded her own successful range of frozen veggie food in the early 1990s.
7. Mother of fashion designer Stella McCartney, who for five years was the head designer for the French haute couture house of Chloe and now designs for her own highly successful label.
8. Took a lot of flak for her ability (or lack thereof) on keyboards; she played along with husband Paul McCartney's bands because he wanted her there, as with John Lennon's making Yoko Ono his musical partner. A late starter, taught mostly by Paul, Linda knew her limitations on keyboards; before going back on the road in the 1990s, she took a winter off to build up her chops. Nonetheless, in her own words, "there's high-schoolers who could do better".
9. Actually found John Lennon the most appealing of the Beatles, when they first came on the scene, but liked Paul better in person after they'd met. (She and John got along adequately in private, but took occasional barbs at each other and their spouses, in the media.)
10. Occasionally hinted that she was related to the Eastmans of Eastman-Kodak fame, but her photography career was coincidental. Her father Lee Eastman and brother John Eastman were New York show-business attorneys... and her father changed the family name from its original Epstein. (This wasn't lost for a moment on John Lennon or Allen Klein, who marvelled at the exchange of the late Brian Epstein for another would-be manager of the same name.)
11. Flirted with girl-group singing with school friends in the late 1950s, but didn't make anything of it.
12. She was the only photographer invited to an outing with The Rolling Stones, and she boasted Eric Clapton as a sometime babysitter for daughter Heather McCartney.
13. Her line of vegetarian foods made her independently wealthy, in the years before her death.
14. Her mother Louise died in a plane crash when she was 20 years old.
15. Was a devoted animal rights activist and vegetarian.
16. Her oldest daughter Heather McCartney was adopted by her second husband Paul McCartney in 1969.
17. Divorced her first husband and biological father of daughter Heather McCartney, John Melvin See Jr., after he wanted to move to Africa and take his family with him.
18. Has three siblings John, Laura and Louise.
19. Diagnoised with breast cancer in December 1995. She lost her battle with the disease on April 17, 1998 at the McCartney Family Ranch in Tucson, Arizona. Her husband Paul McCartney and their four children were at her bedside.
20. Born in New York City but raised primarly in Scarsdale, New York.