Linda Louise McCartney (née Eastman, formerly See, September 24 1941 – April 17 1998) was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune.
She married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on March 12 1969, and was a member of Wings. The McCartneys had four children together: Heather Louise (from her previous marriage, wh...
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Linda Louise McCartney (née Eastman, formerly See, September 24 1941 – April 17 1998) was an American photographer, musician and animal rights activist. Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman, heiress to the Lindner Department Store fortune.
She married Paul McCartney of The Beatles on March 12 1969, and was a member of Wings. The McCartneys had four children together: Heather Louise (from her previous marriage, whom Paul McCartney adopted in 1969), Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis. Linda became Lady McCartney when her husband was knighted in 1997.
McCartney wrote several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the Linda McCartney Foods company) and was a professional photographer, publishing Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era. McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died at the age of 56 on 17 April 1998 at the McCartney family ranch in Tucson, Arizona. She left her entire estate to her husband...
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