How much is Yoko Ono worth?
| Net Worth: | $750 Million |
|---|---|
| Profession: | Professional Artist |
| Date of Birth: | February 18, 1933 |
| Country: | Tokyo, Japan |
| Height: | 1.57 m |
About Yoko Ono
Yoko Ono was born on February 18, 1933, in Japan. Certain twists of fate caused her to become one of the most famous women on the planet, when in 1969, she married John Lennon. Yoko is a Japanese artist, singer, and songwriter. John Lennon is of course one of the greatest names in the history of music, and his life and career, with all the ups and downs, experiments, and upheavals, were marked and inspired by his love of Yoko.
Love her or hate her, Yoko has been called many things. “The woman who broke up the Beatles”, as one such example.
Yoko Ono is a muse, a “child of the ocean”. She was the inspiration for some of the most beautiful songs of the 20th century, but Yoko was, above all, an artist ready to change the world.
Assassination
At 5pm. on the 8th of December 1980, Lennon autographed a copy of Double Fantasy for fan Mark David Chapman. He was waiting for them at their The Dakota apartment building in Manhattan, New York City. Lennon and Yoko then left the building and went to Record Plant for a recording session. They returned at 10:50pm by limousine and were oblivious to Chapman who lay in wait for their return. When Lennon got out of the limo Chapman shot him at close range, twice in the back and twice in the shoulder. John Lennon died at 11:00pm on 8th of December 1980.
On that day Yoko Ono became the widow of John Lennon and is the mother of his son Sean.
War-Torn Child-Hood
Yoko Ono went through her childhood in a war-torn Japan. Despite being part of a wealthy family, bombings took care of that, as her father was in a concentration camp, and her family were forced to beg for food on the street. Yoko has said that it at this period of her life that she developed her aggressive attitude and understanding for outsider status. She and her brothers were publicly ridiculed by friends owing to their sudden poverty.
She spent her childhood and early youth living on the US-Japan route. Her family moved to New York in 1944, and as early as the following year they returned to Japan where they resided during World War II.
In 1951, at the age of 18, Ono moved again to New York where she began studying. However, she soon left Sarah Lawrence College to marry her first husband, Toshi Ichiyanagi.
Very quickly, in 1962, Yoko had fallen apart fro her new husband and divorced the Japanese composer. She continued to be fiercely independent and began working with film producer and jazz musician Anthony Cox. Someone who would soon become her second husband. She also became a member of the avant-garde group Fluxus, inspired by Dadaism.
In 1964, she included visitors in her performance Cut Piece, asking them to cut pieces of her clothing with scissors until they cut off the last piece of her underwear (or until she cut it off herself at any point).
In the 1960s, her life took a turn like very few in her life. Her marriage to John Lennon after meeting in 1966 at her exhibition at the Indica Gallery in London caused both of their lives to change. John was especially interested in the exhibit called Hammer a Nail. Although the show hadn’t started yet, he wanted to hammer a nail on a clean board, but Yoko wouldn’t let him. She reportedly had not heard of The Beatles, but she agreed on the condition that Lennon pays her five shillings.
There were two exhibits that aroused curiosity. An ordinary apple with a card that said “APPLE” and a price of £200 (in today’s money around £ 2,300), which John found exciting and challenging. He was so impressed by her work that as a guest on the Dick Cavett talk show, he shared his impressions of the exhibition. He was so inspired and touched by the exhibits that he had to meet Yoko.
The two hit it off, jousting and joking and soon Yoko would often called Lennon’s house number. He explained to his wife Cynthia Lennon saying that “she is simply trying to raise money for her avant-garde projects.” However, when in 1968, while Cynthia was on vacation in Greece, and Lennon had invited Yoko to visit suspicions were aroused. They recorded the album “Two Virgins” all night together. That same year, Yoko became pregnant, but also lost the male baby named John Ono Lennon II.
In March 1969, Yoko and John were married in Gibraltar, and they spent their honeymoon in Amsterdam camping as part of a seven-day Bed-In For Peace campaign.
Together, they participated in many more protests and campaigns, and they also collaborated on music projects. Yoko has considerable talent in both music and film. Of course, all the projects Yoko Ono was involved in brought her large sums of money, and her marriage to Lennon gave her enough spotlights for all her artistic endeavors.
Many say that if she had not been married to John Lennon, Yoko Ono would never have achieved the fame she had, which is somewhat true, given the fact that today most people know her only as his wife. Lennon was so fascinated by the controversial Japanese artist that he accepted her every opinion, suggestion, or critique of the songs he created, that many critics blamed her for the poor reception of the last album by the audience.
She was a very hated person because she received condemnations from Beatles fans, including Paul McCartney himself, that she was to blame for the breakup of the Beatles and that Lennon left the band because of her. Certainly, Yoko Ono knew well how to use and cash in on her position she had, even though her art was misunderstood by many, she never gave up on her ideas and thoughts. She loved to engage in activism and extravagant things, which attracted people’s attention, whether they loved her or not.
This controversial figure and great artist, who, despite the frequent controversy, continued to fight for her views, has remained known to this day as a great creative mind and a great fighter for peace and tolerance and, although her husband is no longer alive, she remains muse to many.
