Yoko Ono leaves NYC after 50 years, moves to farm purchased with John Lennon

Publish date: 2024-05-08

Yoko Ono is the latest to say she’s done with New York City.

The 90-year-old is choosing to spend the rest of her life in a rural upstate New York farm that she and her late husband, John Lennon, purchased together in 1978, according to the Daily Mail.

In the last 50 years, Ono has called the exclusive Dakota building — located on West 72nd Street and known as the first-ever luxury apartment building in America — her home. Lennon was shot outside, in the Dakota’s archway, on Dec. 8, 1980.

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by Anonymousreply 116July 28, 2023 4:03 AM

No one cares, OP. Your threads are desperate.

by Anonymousreply 1February 24, 2023 11:47 PM

In the woods she can shriek to her heart’s desire.

by Anonymousreply 2February 24, 2023 11:48 PM

Shrieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!

by Anonymousreply 4February 24, 2023 11:59 PM

Sean wants her dementia to bloom freely in a rural enclave.

by Anonymousreply 5February 25, 2023 12:03 AM

Floor plans at the Dakota.

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by Anonymousreply 7July 23, 2023 5:11 AM

I take it May Pang is not on the housewarming invite list?

by Anonymousreply 8July 23, 2023 5:13 AM

I'm interested in purchasing Yoko's place as long as Minnie and Roman have moved out.

by Anonymousreply 9July 23, 2023 5:14 AM

I agree with her desire for county living bur at her age it's a better idea to reside a quick ride near the hospital

by Anonymousreply 10July 23, 2023 5:18 AM

[quote]I agree with her desire for county living bur at her age it's a better idea to reside a quick ride near the hospital

Maybe she wanted to avoid having to go to the hospital from being a victim of violent street crime and anti-Asian racism in NYC.

by Anonymousreply 11July 23, 2023 5:47 AM

I guess Sean is keeping the place at the Dakota.

I imagine his parents' estate throws off enough income to keep the light on, huh?

by Anonymousreply 12July 23, 2023 5:51 AM

And don't slam the door on your way out!

by Anonymousreply 13July 23, 2023 5:53 AM

What are Sean and Kyoko gonna do with all this money once she finally kicks it, I wonder. They must be counting down the days at this point, surely?

by Anonymousreply 14July 23, 2023 5:59 AM

R14, I doubt Sean and Kyoko are hurting for money, Sean especially. Look at his social media and he seems like a really cool guy.

by Anonymousreply 15July 23, 2023 6:09 AM

More room for her to hold the 4,000,000 4th Graders "Recorder Blow" event.

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by Anonymousreply 16July 23, 2023 6:21 AM

I honestly thought Ono had died years ago.

by Anonymousreply 17July 23, 2023 6:42 AM

CD's made it possible to skip the bad parts of the "Double Fantasy" album. Prior to that you had to run to the stereo and turn it down before a Yoko song came on. KISS KISS KISS KISS ME LOVE

by Anonymousreply 18July 23, 2023 7:27 AM

I wonder if I'll get anything in the will.

by Anonymousreply 19July 23, 2023 7:32 AM

More clicks for Murdoch. Great.

by Anonymousreply 20July 23, 2023 7:39 AM

[quote] I agree with her desire for county living but at her age it's a better idea to reside a quick ride near the hospital.

The article says she has round the clock medical care as is, so perhaps she's already resigned herself to what's ahead, and this could be Step 1 leading into something like a hospice situation.

by Anonymousreply 21July 23, 2023 7:53 AM

Does OP mean that they moved her coffin?

by Anonymousreply 23July 23, 2023 8:36 AM

[quote]I honestly thought Ono had died years ago.

And you're so proud of your cluelessness, you couldn't wait to share it with everyone on DL?

by Anonymousreply 24July 23, 2023 8:45 AM

I'm a weirdo. I like (some) of her music. I think her philosophy of artistic practice is a lot more fascinating than her singing. Her perfomative art is inviting, and requests collaboration. It stands in stark contrast to how art is now predicated on buying a copy, instead of doing the artistic moment that Ono herself has encouraged others to try.

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by Anonymousreply 25July 23, 2023 8:57 AM

"...at her age it's a better idea to reside a quick ride near the hospital"

Honestly, I wonder if this *is* something like a hospice situation, because around-the-clock home care means that there's always someone there to wipe your ass, and maybe to get you your pills or even your shots, but it doesn't mean that there's anyone there to deal with a genuine medical emergency.

No, I think things are winding down for her, because she's going to a land without decent food.

by Anonymousreply 26July 23, 2023 9:05 AM

[quote] No, I think things are winding down for her, because she's going to a land without decent food.

She's a known vegetarian. She's going to a farm, and the article says she grows her own vegetables. A few years ago she was praising someone's book about a plant-based diet

by Anonymousreply 27July 23, 2023 9:24 AM

[quote]Maybe she wanted to avoid having to go to the hospital from being a victim of violent street crime and anti-Asian racism in NYC.

Given her husband was a victim of a horrible street crime, you'd think she would have bolted from the city decades ago.

by Anonymousreply 28July 23, 2023 9:41 AM

It wasn't exactly a "street-crime", but nonetheless I'm surprised that she still lived at Dakota. I mean...if your spouse/partner were killed right in front of your home -- where you'd walk past it EVERY time you left the building -- would you still want to live there?? I wouldn't/couldn't -- no matter how fabulous the Dakota is.

by Anonymousreply 29July 23, 2023 10:06 AM

[quote]would you still want to live there?? I wouldn't/couldn't -- no matter how fabulous the Dakota is.

All of them witches!

by Anonymousreply 30July 23, 2023 10:29 AM

Yoko Ono is a self-centered, untalented, cunt.

She'll be forever known as the twat who broke up the Beatles.

And if it wasn't for the fact that she married John Lennon (another example of a closeted gay man marrying an asian), she would be NOWHERE.

No one would even know her name.

by Anonymousreply 31July 23, 2023 11:07 AM

I'm not sure we really know who she is or what's happened. We won't for a long time, because people are so damned precious about their Beatles.

by Anonymousreply 32July 23, 2023 11:17 AM

When I first heard Yoko Ono in the news, I assumed she was dead. My stepdad had dementia, so if she can afford it (and clearly she can), let her go out to the country where she can get out, get some exercise & fresh air without constantly worrying about her being accosted by some nut or stepping in front of cab. Probably all the chaos & the noise of the city just winds her up and gets her very agitated

by Anonymousreply 33July 23, 2023 12:01 PM

You sound grossly obese R24.

by Anonymousreply 34July 23, 2023 12:03 PM

She wants to be alone with her lesbian lover Hillary C.

by Anonymousreply 35July 23, 2023 12:13 PM

Betty Bacall and Yoko Ono never got along as neighbors at the Dakota.

by Anonymousreply 36July 23, 2023 12:18 PM

Will Yoko’s departure make me the most famous Dakota resident?

by Anonymousreply 37July 23, 2023 12:19 PM

There is something wrong when someone can live like that and others barely survive. This country has become so unbalanced

by Anonymousreply 38July 23, 2023 12:21 PM

Sorry Rex but you are a sad has been who lives in the attic.

by Anonymousreply 39July 23, 2023 12:33 PM

So she’s putting herself out to pasture.

by Anonymousreply 40July 23, 2023 12:37 PM

Maybe so, Betty, but you're dead. Can't get more "has been" than that.

by Anonymousreply 41July 23, 2023 12:44 PM

I wonder what she eats, I'm always very curious of the dietary habits of folks who are healthy at advanced age.

by Anonymousreply 42July 23, 2023 1:32 PM

Can't we deport her and be rid of the bitch, once and for all?

by Anonymousreply 43July 23, 2023 1:45 PM

A Farm? Oh my. It's a country estate, Not a farm.

by Anonymousreply 44July 23, 2023 2:13 PM

I want the apartment; I don’t give a flying fuck about her country home.

by Anonymousreply 45July 23, 2023 2:17 PM

In THE DIARIES, Andy Warhol would always remark that, after John was killed, Yoko would show up at various parties and restaurants in furs and jewels, wearing make-up. He said she finally looked like a rich lady.

by Anonymousreply 46July 23, 2023 2:41 PM

I don't love a lot of her music, but there are some gems in there. LOVE this one. Especially the newer version she recorded in the 2000s. Beautiful, haunting stuff. No shrieking.

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by Anonymousreply 47July 23, 2023 3:06 PM

[quote]Betty Bacall and Yoko Ono never got along as neighbors at the Dakota.

That is a "Feud" I might watch.

by Anonymousreply 48July 23, 2023 5:24 PM

I just look at her friends over the years and the work she's done and can't find a reason to fault her.

by Anonymousreply 49July 23, 2023 5:42 PM

Isn't it customary for elderly Japanese to wander quietly into the forest to die so as not to be a burden on the family? Maybe that's her plan.

by Anonymousreply 50July 23, 2023 6:15 PM

Her singing will be like a mating call to the wild animals.

by Anonymousreply 51July 23, 2023 7:16 PM

"There is something wrong when someone can live like that and others barely survive."

Entertainers aren't the big problem here, their fortunes come from people voluntarily handing over their disposable income. So while I'm definitely on the "EAT THE RICH" bandwagon, Yoko is not someone who should be first against the wall when the revolution comes. Let the Walton family of Walmart be first, they've made their immense fortune through ruining the economies of small towns and forcing unpaid overtime out of employees who don't even get healthcare out of the deal.

by Anonymousreply 52July 23, 2023 10:24 PM

R52, Yoko's family is well established in Japan. Her dad was a famous and wealthy banker. It was also how she was able to be privately educated before going to Sarah Lawrence.

She has John's money and also her family money. It may not be fair but life isn't fair.

by Anonymousreply 53July 23, 2023 10:31 PM

I think she's in more of a pallative care scenario now. I mean, I guess it's better for her to be somewhere quiet, although the hospitals are farther away.

by Anonymousreply 54July 23, 2023 10:55 PM

Hospitals being nearby may not be necessary if one has a DNR.

by Anonymousreply 55July 23, 2023 11:15 PM

This would have been a great reality show.

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by Anonymousreply 56July 24, 2023 1:31 AM

Sad last days of a nuisance.

by Anonymousreply 57July 24, 2023 1:57 AM

R11 Oh fuck off you fkin troll.

by Anonymousreply 58July 24, 2023 2:12 AM

I was reading some of that article’s comments and was struck by so many cloying, gushing and even devotional posts about her: oh, she smiled at me when I walked by her; oh, I stood next to her before crossing the street and was so overwhelmed with her peaceful presence; oh, New York will never be the same without her— though there were a few saner ones who said she would be nothing without Lennon and how cruel she was to both Cynthia and Julian.

I think she’s one of the cuntiest of cunts and actually benefited from Lennon’s violent death. Good riddance, bitch!

by Anonymousreply 59July 24, 2023 3:45 AM

Is this the famous Holstein dairy farm?

by Anonymousreply 60July 24, 2023 4:38 AM

Thank you R59, EXACTLY. Julian really got the shit stick from his dad. He looked just like John and was very talented. Conversely, the light of John's life, Sean got his mother Yoko's talent. Sickening.

by Anonymousreply 61July 24, 2023 4:39 AM

700 million and I believe it. I doubt she ever threw money around and she was sharp as a tack and must have always had good brokers. I wouldn't be surprised if she has a billion, frankly.

by Anonymousreply 62July 24, 2023 5:02 AM

What celebrities still live in The Dakota?

by Anonymousreply 63July 24, 2023 5:19 AM

Are Maury Povich and Connie Chung celebrities?

by Anonymousreply 64July 24, 2023 6:53 AM

Will Paul McCartney make a statement when she dies?

by Anonymousreply 65July 24, 2023 6:59 AM

Dahlink, I love you- but give me Park Avenue!

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by Anonymousreply 66July 24, 2023 7:06 AM

At least I never suffered the humiliation of a very public petty theft arrest like poor Rex did.

by Anonymousreply 67July 24, 2023 11:18 AM

R65- "Will Paul McCartney make a statement when she dies?

Yes: Ob-la-di, ob-la-da, life goes on, brah. La-la, how their life goes on.

by Anonymousreply 68July 24, 2023 12:06 PM

So cute to see these 80's-style Yoko jabs in their dying gasps. The kiddies don't know what the fuck you're talking about and think it's just old people being hateful...oh wait.

by Anonymousreply 69July 24, 2023 12:18 PM

Yoko Ono is a rancid old cunt bag.

And so are you, R69.

So go ahead and fuck right off!

by Anonymousreply 70July 24, 2023 1:06 PM

Her music is shit. One of the most overrated people of all time. I've met her and she's nothing but big ego.

by Anonymousreply 71July 24, 2023 1:46 PM

You could also say the Beatles were overrated for what they were. Paul McCartney definitely has a big ego.

by Anonymousreply 72July 24, 2023 1:48 PM

R69- Yes, what R70 said. The way that hideous cunt treated poor Julian alone justifies the hate people have for her. Preaching about not being materialistic and " sharing all the world". That bitch should have been shot instead of John - not he wasn't a huge hypocrite himself. Imagine no possessions indeed.

by Anonymousreply 73July 24, 2023 1:49 PM

It was a smack in the face to find out how unpleasant John and Yoko were/are.

by Anonymousreply 74July 24, 2023 3:33 PM

Biggest mistake the surviving Beatles made is alienating an entire generation by waiting so long to get their music on iTunes and other digital platforms. It sealed a diminished legacy once the boomers die off.

by Anonymousreply 75July 24, 2023 3:35 PM

[quote] You could also say the Beatles were overrated for what they were.

For what they were, R72,? Meaning the most innovative rock band in the history of music? No, you could not say that and be taken seriously. Who was more influential? We'll wait.

by Anonymousreply 77July 24, 2023 5:10 PM

I love how young people of today aren't afraid to call out The Beatles (and especially Lennon) for being overrated shit.

John Lennon beat his first wife and fully abandoned his first son when he ran off with Yoko. It's nice that he found hippie nudist peace at the end of his life, but he sure knew how to throw a woman around a kitchen in the old days.

by Anonymousreply 78July 24, 2023 5:14 PM

R78, one thing has nothing to do with the other, and any "young person" who would make such a stupid pronouncement would be laughed off as an idiot. ANYONE saying the music of the Beatles is shit is a moron.

by Anonymousreply 79July 24, 2023 5:17 PM

The Beatles? I’ve had sufficient.

by Anonymousreply 80July 24, 2023 5:20 PM

R79 They're not saying The Beatles' music is shit. They're saying it's overrated, and John Lennon's posthumous sainthood is bullshit. If Lennon hadn't been plugged in the groceries, his legacy today would be wildly different, and we all know it. People did the same with Jack Kennedy (pill-popping abuser of women who sucked at governance), Elvis Presley (pill-popping statutory rapist who stole music royalties from Black artists), and Lady Di (misguided climber with severe BPD). Once a public figure drops dead, people gloss over their humanity and portray them as something they never were. And it's sick.

Unwad your panties, Boomer. No one is personally attacking you or your taste in music.

by Anonymousreply 81July 24, 2023 5:22 PM

R81, who cares what they say is overrated when most people don't agree with them? As for Lennon's sanctimoniousness, that was proven to be bullshit years ago. Keep up Granny.

by Anonymousreply 82July 24, 2023 5:24 PM

Those in the “Beatles were overrated” camp by and large stay willfully ignorant of the popular music landscape when they burst on the scene, the seismic shift in culture at that time and the youth explosion, and the fact that the Beatles still influence musicians and bands today.

by Anonymousreply 83July 24, 2023 5:25 PM

Maybe we just like to be contrarians, and remind everyone that Lennon's free-love bullshit was all an act.

He was a deadbeat dad, and a wife-beater, who despite his preaching about lifting others out of poverty still died a millionaire and a tax-refugee from the UK's high-tax welfare state.

by Anonymousreply 84July 24, 2023 5:28 PM

R11 sounds like a flyover country dunce.

by Anonymousreply 85July 24, 2023 5:28 PM

Stupid. She won't get any decent medical care up there.

by Anonymousreply 87July 24, 2023 5:32 PM

It does seem dumb to exile yourself to the country. In NYC she was a five-to-ten-minute limo ride or ambulance ride from the nearest hospital.

by Anonymousreply 88July 24, 2023 5:36 PM

If Lennon had lived, he'd have alienated all the Beatles fans by now, because the internet would have allowed him to show the world the depths of his crazy! Seriously, the man was so unstable that I genuinely wonder if he had BPD, he would have let it out over the last few decades as his showbiz career ground down. Hell, by now there'd be good odds that his mind would be failing, and he'd believe in every batshit conspiracy theory there is, and he'd put it all on social media!

McCartney is actually lucky he's gone. The whole world takes him seriously now, that might not be the case if Lennon was still around to puncture his balloons.

by Anonymousreply 89July 24, 2023 5:47 PM

"Imagine" was flat out commie propaganda, but that's okay. There's a reason why it makes us cry for a lost ideal that perhaps was never realistic. Capitalism has made us all live like refugees.

by Anonymousreply 90July 24, 2023 5:51 PM

[quote] If Lennon had lived, he'd have alienated all the Beatles fans by now, because the internet would have allowed him to show the world the depths of his crazy!

MARY R89.

by Anonymousreply 91July 24, 2023 6:04 PM

This is as "ok boomer" as it gets.

by Anonymousreply 92July 24, 2023 8:34 PM

R89- He was also a mean drunk. He was very acerbic and he truly enjoyed hurting others feelings and insulting them, and I am talking about close friends.

by Anonymousreply 93July 24, 2023 8:38 PM

Meant to say also that there was no social media then and these people were protected from negative stories about them getting out to the media.

by Anonymousreply 94July 24, 2023 8:39 PM

Laughing my ass off at the idiot at R11, trying to act like this 90-year old woman is hitting the streets and mixing it up with other New Yorkers on the subway and shit.

I don't think Yoko Ono has much to fear from the scourge of New York violence considering the woman can't leave her co-op without assistance. So if you have something to say, why don't you say it?

by Anonymousreply 95July 24, 2023 8:41 PM

Fuck sake. None of this is new information and all of it is very old news at that. There is an entire (dubious) biography about him by Goldman that came out a few decades ago.

by Anonymousreply 96July 24, 2023 8:41 PM

Yes, R11's post is quite comical.

by Anonymousreply 97July 24, 2023 8:44 PM

People think of Yoko as a dragon lady who had John under a spell. That's only because John allowed it. He was physically and emotionally abusive to her when he felt like it.

by Anonymousreply 98July 24, 2023 8:47 PM

That bitch ruined so many good songs. Listening to her screeching was like listening to a roomful of cats on fire.

by Anonymousreply 99July 24, 2023 8:47 PM

R98- I actually believe they were a lot alike and I do not believe anyone controlled John Lennon.

by Anonymousreply 100July 24, 2023 8:50 PM

Yoko tried to get with Paul first but he thought she was ugly and weird.

by Anonymousreply 101July 24, 2023 8:53 PM

I read that he called her “Mother. Why? Did he see her as another Julia in his life?

by Anonymousreply 103July 24, 2023 8:57 PM

On a trip to Japan John and Yoko went out to a very posh restaurant. As they were seated John looked around and said very loudly "It's true you all look alike!" Yoko was mortified.

by Anonymousreply 104July 24, 2023 9:04 PM

R81 Dionne Warwick: Elvis Presley did me a big favor in Las Vegas

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by Anonymousreply 105July 25, 2023 3:18 AM

R74 you meet after seeing them in one of their documentaries?

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by Anonymousreply 106July 25, 2023 4:56 AM

R106- I began to truly dislike the both of them when I learned how very badly both of them treated Julian Lennon. He was cruel to his oldest son and she made him fight for years in court to get any of his father's inheritance. Quite frankly they both were cunts.

by Anonymousreply 107July 25, 2023 9:26 PM

John was a degenerate stanky Howard Hughes type for years. Strung out mentally ill creep living in filth in the Dakota.

by Anonymousreply 108July 25, 2023 9:30 PM

R108- His hypocrisy was staggering and his cruelty to others well known with in his circles. For him to sing and preach about love and peace was vomit inducing. But he wasn't called out for that or at least it wasn't revealed until well after his death. John Lennon got away with being a hypocritical asshole during his lifetime because he made money for people.

by Anonymousreply 109July 25, 2023 9:57 PM

The joy of living longer than the boomers is getting the real stories about these guys. Session musicians HATED them, and alluded that they may not have necessarily written as much of their stuff as we think.

by Anonymousreply 110July 27, 2023 6:46 AM

[quote] The joy of living longer than the boomers is getting the real stories about these guys.

Who do you think are providing the "real stories about these guys" but the other boomers who knew them, braintrust at R110?

by Anonymousreply 111July 28, 2023 1:53 AM

R8 Yoko is the one who suggested that May Pang and John start an affair.

by Anonymousreply 112July 28, 2023 2:04 AM

I have always disliked her intensely.

by Anonymousreply 113July 28, 2023 2:35 AM

I’ve come to like her and respect her artistic sensibilities. When I was on Twitter really enjoyed her Tweets. She’s a weirdo but admire she stayed true to herself and didn’t give a crap about winning people over.

by Anonymousreply 114July 28, 2023 2:57 AM

Earth to Yoko Ono: DROP DEAD!

by Anonymousreply 115July 28, 2023 3:21 AM

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