John Lennon and Yoko Ono got together while he was still married to his first wife, Cynthia Lennon. He cheated brazenly during his relationship with Cynthia. While he claimed he had a deeper connection with Ono, he reportedly was still unfaithful.
A friend of both Lennon and Ono said Lennon once cheated on Ono extremely publicly while she and other party guests sat in stunned silence. John Lennon openly cheated on Yoko Ono at a party In 1972, Lennon and Ono attended a party at anti-war activist Jerry Rubin’s apartment. They were waiting on the results of the presidential election between Richard Nixon and George McGovern.
As the night wore on — and Nixon began to emerge as the victor — Lennon began drinking heavily. At some point, Lennon slipped away and had “loud, raucous sex” with another woman. “Throughout it all,” the couple’s friend Elliot Mintz wrote in We All Shine On .
“Yoko sat on the sofa, in stunned, mortified silence, as other guests began awkwardly getting up to leave — until they realized that their coats were in the bedroom where John was having sex.” Mintz said that Ono could deal with a lot — she ended up forgiving Lennon for his blatant infidelity — but this night was particularly brutal for her. “He was placing [his wife] in the most embarrassing position that you could ever place a woman in — having a romp in the hay in another room with thin walls while your wife was attending a small party and could hear everything,” Mintz.
