And that wasn't even the only love triangle to plague the couple's marriage. According to Boyd, Harrison cheated on her with his bandmate Ringo Starr's then-wife Maureen Starkey (no, really!). That's a lot of drama for a man known as the "quiet Beatle."
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How did George Harrison and Pattie Boyd meet?
Boyd was 19 and just starting her modeling career when she got a small part as a school-aged Beatles fan in the 1964 film A Hard Day’s Night. Harrison was immediately smitten with the young woman and asked her to dinner, but she politely declined because she was seeing someone else at the time. A week later, newly single and back on set for a photo shoot, she changed her answer — and the course of her life forever.
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On leaving Harrison, Boyd told The Telegraph in 2022, “It was an extremely difficult decision of mine to make.”
Addressing his well-documented infidelity, which included an affair with Ringo Starr’s then-wife Maureen, Boyd added, “It’s just that I think he wanted to spread his wings and take advantage of being the handsome, famous, rich guy that he was, and see how the girls feel about him. A hot-blooded boy – why not, I suppose.”
Did Pattie Boyd leave George Harrison for Eric Clapton?
Technically, yes, but her marriage to Harrison had been suffering for years due in part to his own infidelity. Still, her decision to leave Harrison for Clapton — who had been pining for her for more than a decade despite being friends with the Beatle (she was even the inspiration for his 1970 hit “Layla”) — was a massive story in 1974 and remains a major part of the band's lore to this day.
For her part, Boyd told People that Harrison had a good-natured response to her leaving him. "He said, 'Well, I'm glad you're going off with Eric instead of some idiot," she recalled. "So he appreciated my choice!"
No. Boyd has spoken about the fact that she was never able to conceive, although usually when talking about her marriage to Clapton, since that was when she tried infertility treatments and IVF.
Did George Harrison cheat on Pattie Boyd with Ringo’s wife Maureen?
Harrison and Maureen never confirmed an affair, but Boyd wrote about it in her memoir. “The final straw was his affair with Maureen Starr, Ringo’s wife,” she shared. “She was the last person I would have expected to stab me in the back, but she did.”
“I stood outside banging on the door and saying to George, ‘What are you doing? Maureen’s in there, isn’t she? I know she is,’ but he laughed,” she wrote. “He was supposed to be in the studio and everyone was waiting for him. Eventually he opened the door and said, ‘Oh, she’s just a bit tired so she’s lying down.”
Who was George Harrison married to when he died?
Harrison was married to author/producer Olivia Harrison (née Arias) when he died in 2001. They’d been together since 1978.
What happened to George Harrison’s wife Olivia?
Harrison left his reported $400 million estate to his widow and their son, Dhani, when he died of cancer in 2001. Since then, she’s managed that estate, including his music and archives, and reissues of his work and releases tied to his legacy.
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