John Lennon Tax Cheque up for auction
Published December 7th, 2005
A cheque from former Beatle John Lennon to the UK’s Inland Revenue is expected to fetch £1,500 (€2,200) at auction.
Selling the item is Lindi St Clair, aka Miss Whiplash, a former madam who once stood for Parliament as leader of the Corrective Party, campaigning for more liberal sex laws.
Ms St Clair, now a duck farmer in Risbury, Herefordshire, bought Lennon’s cheque for £4,800 (€7,088) at an auction in 1988.
It was an apt purchase, as she was engaged in a tax battle at the time over her “immoral earningsâ€.
The item had been expected to sell for £400 (€590) but Ms St Clair refused to back down in a bidding war with the Hard Rock Café.
In the end the restaurant was beaten into submission by the wealthy madam, then living in London.
Chris Albury, of the Dominic Winter auction house in Swindon, Wiltshire, where Ms St Clair grew up, said: “Realistically this cheque should make £1,500. However, with its incredible provenance there’s no saying where the price might end up.
The cheque will go on sale at the Swindon auction rooms at around 2.30pm on December 14.
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