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Jane has no financial need to tell her story as she is very well off and its not as if it worked out badly for either Paul or herself as they both found life-long partners and were very successful apart. Maybe she has a lot of happy memories of the 60’s and thats where she wants them to stay. Also she was a very independent woman even when with Paul, something he wasnt that thrilled with at times, so probably doesnt want to be seen as cashing in on their relationship and using Pauls name as a way to gain some coverage.

Overall I doubt there is much benefit in it for Jane to write a tell all autobiography.

And according to wiki Jane called off her engagement to Paul after finding him in bed with Frances Schwartz, tho a bit of following the source shows that Frances denies it saying that Jane caught them together after the split. Frances is another who has written an autobiography (under the name Francie Schwartz) called Body Count published in 1972. The amazon description reads

Commemorative special edition of the notorious autobiography of Francie Schwartz, first published by Rolling Stone’s Straight Arrow Books in 1972. Most controversial for Chapter 8, entitled, “Don’t Cry, I’m a ….”, which details her spring and summer with Paul McCartney and the Beatles, as Paul’s livein girlfriend, backup singer on the White Album , and assistant Apple publicist under and around the late Derek Taylor. Also noted for its lack of explicit sexual detail, this book tells what living the 60’s media myth was really like.
From L.A.’s rock publicity circuit to New York’s East side bar scene an d ad agency maelstrom, to London in ’68 and back! A survivor’s story.

And amazon editorial Review

“It’s been out of print (and a rarely seen collectible) for so long – and its intimate tale of an affair with a Beatle so much discussed by so many who’ve never read it – that this book has become the stuff of legend. Now that the author has it back in print in a self-published reprint edition,
McCartney/Beatle fans can find out for themselves what all the fuss was about… she provides an unvarnished, somewhat negative and yet strangely human and appealing portrait of a McCartney that the public has never been allowed to see anywhere else. ‘He wanted to be one of the boys, but he wanted to be the one-manband as well,’ she writes. And there, with a flair, you have the Beatles circa ’68 summed up rather nicely.” — Beatlefan Magazine #117, March-April, 1999, Malcolm Tucker

(I do find it humourous that the review is written by someone called Malcolm Tucker.)

mja6758 said

DrBeatle said
Scharf (spelling)

Gerald Scarfe, British satirical cartoonist.

The one who works for The Times and published that Jewish cartoon last week that caused outrage leading to an apology by Rupert Murdoch, himself and others?  Takes a lot to get an apology from Murdoch. Small world to take us from Jane being with Paul in the 60’s to a cartoon that causes outrage in 2013 amid claims of anti-Semitism.

mja6758 said
I should say I do not believe Scarfe to be anti-Semitic, just bad timing that a hard-hitting cartoon (which I wouldn’t dare to put up here for fear of reaction) was published on Holocaust Day.

I dont either. A few cartoons of Scarfe’s, he’s a very good artist (im also not posting that cartoon).

Kind of like that Beats International song Dub Be Good To Me – i dont care what youre reputation is or what you do when we’re not together just be good to me when we are. A lot of people men and women do stick around in the belief that the parter will change so i can see why Jane did. And was it widely known back in the 1960’s, it wasnt reported in the press so maybe it was gossip and whispers.