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

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.

No one cares, OP. Your threads are desperate.

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

Shrieeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!!!!

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

Floor plans at the Dakota.

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

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

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

[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.

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?

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

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?

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.

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

I honestly thought Ono had died years ago.

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

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

More clicks for Murdoch. Great.

[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.

Does OP mean that they moved her coffin?

[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?

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.

"...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.

[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

[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.

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.

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

All of them witches!

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.

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.

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

You sound grossly obese R24.

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

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

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

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

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

So she’s putting herself out to pasture.

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

That is a "Feud" I might watch.

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

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.

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

"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.

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.

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.

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

This would have been a great reality show.

Sad last days of a nuisance.

R11 Oh fuck off you fkin troll.

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!

Is this the famous Holstein dairy farm?

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.

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.

What celebrities still live in The Dakota?

Are Maury Povich and Connie Chung celebrities?

Will Paul McCartney make a statement when she dies?

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

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

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.

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.

Yoko Ono is a rancid old cunt bag.

And so are you, R69.

So go ahead and fuck right off!

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

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

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.

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

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.

[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.

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.

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.

The Beatles? I’ve had sufficient.

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.

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.

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.

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.

R11 sounds like a flyover country dunce.

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

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.

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.

"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.

[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.

This is as "ok boomer" as it gets.

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.

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.

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?

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.

Yes, R11's post is quite comical.

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.

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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.

[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?

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

I have always disliked her intensely.

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.

Earth to Yoko Ono: DROP DEAD!

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