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Linda Louise, Lady McCartney (née Eastman; formerly See; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American musician, photographer and animal rights activist, entrepreneur and publisher who was married to Paul McCartney of the Beatles. Eastman and McCartney were married in 1969 with their marriage blessed at St John's Wood Church in London.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Paul McCartney and Linda Eastman Marriage Profile )〕〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=12 March 1969: Paul McCartney marries Linda Eastman )〕 Her daughter, Heather Louise, from her first marriage to Joseph See, was adopted by her new husband the same year of their marriage. Together, the McCartneys had three children: Mary Anna, Stella Nina, and James Louis. McCartney and her husband later formed the band Wings. She wrote several vegetarian cookbooks and became a business entrepreneur, starting the Linda McCartney Foods company with her husband. Prior to her second marriage, she was a professional photographer, later publishing ''Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era''.〔McCartney, Linda. ''Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era''. Bullfinch Press. 1992.〕 McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died at the age of 56 on April 17, 1998, in Tucson, Arizona, at their ranch. ==Early years== McCartney was born Linda Louise Eastman, the second-eldest of four children, in New York City. She had one older brother, John, born in 1939; and two younger sisters, Laura, born in 1947, and Louise Jr., born in 1950.〔〔 Her father was born Leopold Vail Epstein, the son of Jewish Russian immigrants, who later changed his name to Lee Eastman. Eastman was an attorney for songwriter Jack Lawrence. At Eastman's father's request, Lawrence wrote a song called, "Linda", in honor of the one-year-old. The song was published in 1946, and recorded by Buddy Clark in 1947.〔 John Eastman later became Paul McCartney's attorney and manager. McCartney's mother, Louise Sara (Lindner) Eastman, was from a German Jewish family. The daughter of Max J. Lindner—founder of the Lindner Company clothing store in Cleveland, Ohio, McCartney's mother died in the 1962 crash of American Airlines Flight 1 in Queens, New York. McCartney later said that because of her mother's death, she hated travelling by air.〔 McCartney grew up in the Scarsdale area of Westchester County, New York, graduating from Scarsdale High School in 1959.〔(【引用サイトリンク】title=Linda McCartney )〕 Following high school, McCartney attended Vermont College, receiving an Associate of Arts degree from the college in 1961.〔Norwich University, (Mining for Old: Linda McCartney at Vermont College ), August 10, 2012〕 After Vermont, she attended the University of Arizona, majoring in Fine Arts.〔 Her first marriage was to Joseph Melville See Jr., whom she had met in college. They married on June 18, 1962; their daughter Heather Louise was born on December 31, 1962. The couple divorced in June 1965.〔 McCartney later commented that See was a "nice man, a geologist, an Ernest Hemingway type".〔 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Linda McCartney」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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