{"id":927843,"date":"2026-10-14T12:46:12","date_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:46:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927843\/"},"modified":"2026-10-14T12:46:12","modified_gmt":"2026-10-14T12:46:12","slug":"john-lennon-and-yoko-onos-son-sean-makes-surprising-claim-about-brother-julians-inheritance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/927843\/","title":{"rendered":"John Lennon and Yoko Ono\u2019s son Sean makes surprising claim about brother Julian\u2019s inheritance"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Sean Ono Lennon<\/a> has pushed back at a fan\u2019s remarks about him and his half-brother, Julian Lennon, after sharing a photo of them together on his birthday. <\/p>\n

Sean, a musician and producer, seemingly wanted to clear up misconceptions about how much inheritance he and Julian received after the Beatles<\/a> legend was killed outside his apartment on 8 December, 1980.<\/p>\n

Julian was born in 1963 to John and his first wife, the artist and author Cynthia Powell. Sean, born in 1975, is the son of John and his second wife, the artist, musician and peace activist Yoko Ono<\/a>. <\/p>\n

On Sunday 11 October, Sean, who turned 51 on two days before, shared a photo with Julian that showed the pair looking out across a beautiful lake surrounded by forests, writing: \u201cHad a great birthday with my brother.\u201d<\/p>\n

Social media personality and author Wesley Yang shared the post and remarked how \u201cone guy [was] abandoned by his famous dad\u201d while the other was \u201cembraced and closely attended to by the same dad, who he then saw murdered as a young child\u201d. <\/p>\n

\u201cOne guy inherited most of the estate, the other largely cut out and forced to engaged [sic] in decadeslong litigation in pursuit of a relatively small share of it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Sean then responded to this comment, writing: \u201cJulian and I inherited the same amount from our dad. Our trusts were equal. Although his was slightly more, but negligibly so.\u201d<\/p>\n

The Independent has contacted Julian Lennon\u2019s representative for comment. <\/p>\n

Following John\u2019s death, Yoko Ono was left in control of his estate<\/a>. Julian had to fight a 16-year legal battle before he was able to claim his inheritance \u2013 reported to be around $20m. <\/p>\n

Julian later used a portion of his inheritance to buy back letters and postcards <\/a>he and his late father had exchanged, along with handwritten lyrics his father had written for songs inspired by Julian, including \u201cHey Jude\u201d, after they were put up for auction by Yoko. <\/p>\n

Since the settlement was reached in 1996, Sean and Julian have maintained a close relationship. <\/p>\n

In an interview with The Independent last year<\/a>, Sean said he became interested in music because of his famous father: \u201cI always felt like music was a way of getting closer to him.\u201d<\/p>\n

\"JulianJulian and Sean Lennon have been on close terms for years (Getty Images for Disney)<\/p>\n

He also revealed that Yoko is all-but retired from public life: \u201cI try to give her privacy now \u2013 she doesn\u2019t want to do press and she\u2019s not interested in being a public figure anymore.\u201d<\/p>\n

He and his longterm partner, Charlotte Kemp Muhl, welcomed their first child \u2013 John Lennon and Yoko Ono\u2019s first grandchild \u2013 last month. <\/p>\n

Sharing a post to Instagram, Sean announced that he and Muhl had created \u201ca Human Bean\u201d and told his followers that their son\u2019s name was Aurelius. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Want to bookmark your favourite articles and stories to read or reference later? Start your Independent Membership today.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":927844,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[64,63,447,134],"class_list":["post-927843","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrities","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-celebrities","tag-entertainment"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927843","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=927843"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/927843\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/927844"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=927843"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=927843"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=927843"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}