Inside search for John Lennon’s ‘secret love child’ using late Beatles star’s $25k tooth 44 years after assassination

A dentist who paid $20,000 for John Lennon’s teeth is searching for the late Beatles star’s possible love children.

In order to collect DNA for comparison testing, Dr. Michael Zuk destroyed the decomposing gnasher.

Lennon, who was killed forty-four years ago today, had two wives and a son.

However, it is thought he may have unintentionally fathered more children because women flocked to him during the height of Beatlemania and contraception was not commonly utilized in the 1960s.

Dr. Zuk, who paid $20,000 for Lennon’s tooth over 10 years ago, is currently searching for the singer Beautiful Boy’s possible love children.

In 2011, he placed a phone bid and won the tooth, which included what was thought to be one of his son Julian’s baby teeth.

Testing, however, revealed that it was another of the renowned composer John Lennon’s molars; images show that it matches one that was absent from the upper left corner of his mouth.

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According to Dr. Zuk, a father of two from Alberta, Canada, that tooth is essential to his objective, which may allow any kid born to a verified couple to inherit a portion of the Liverpudlian’s $490 million legacy.

The gnasher was crushed down and treated to extract DNA from Dr. Zuk, who was born three months before the Beatles’ debut hit, “Love Me Do,” was published.

The only material left is dust, which is being utilized for comparison testing.

In 1963, Lennon and Cynthia Powell, his first wife, welcomed a son, Julian.

Then, with his second wife, Yoko Ono, he had another son, Sean, who was born on the star’s birthday in 1975.

However, Dr. Zuk thinks Lennon might have fathered additional children without realizing it.

“It’s no secret that the Beatles were all popular with the ladies,” he previously told The Sun.

“Hush money was discussed in various books and while mothers may have been silenced and compensated this does not address a child’s potential rights.

“Seeing the tooth for sale was a lifetime opportunity for me.”

Dr Zuk, who is retired and splits most of his time between Mexico and the US, is now hunting for potential heirs for testing.

On December 8, 1980, Lennon was shot and assassinated by Mark David Chapman outside the apartment he and Ono lived in New York.

But his estate – managed solely by his widow Japanese-born artist Ono, 91, before she handed the reigns to their son Sean, 49 – is understood to be worth more than 490 million.

The hitmaker’s estate is still raking it in and in 2019 it was reported Lennon was the world’s seventh top-earning dead celebrity.

Dr Zuk, which actually means “beetle” in Ukrainian, said should he achieve the unimaginable and find a Lennon love child, he will want part of their inheritance.

He added: “There seems to be some expectation that I should be paying for people’s comparative testing – but that’s not what I’m offering.

“I plan to engage with a paternity lawyer and receive payment if the estate settles and a match is made.

“A New York City lawyer stated he was interested in collaborating.”

Dr Zuk’s antics haven’t gone unnoticed by Ono, who previously sent him a legal letter after he claimed he was interested in cloning the Scouser.

But he said the idea of cloning Lennon wasn’t exactly serious, and more out of his frustration at how his son Julian, 61, was treated.

Musician Julian and Ono were embroiled in a lengthy legal wrangle in the 1990 over Lennon’s estate.

He was abandoned by troubled songwriter Lennon in the 1960s and only received a small portion of his father’s estate when Ono settled out of court almost 20 years after his murder.

Dr Zuk said: “I did get a legal warning from Yoko ‘not to clone’ John Lennon, but it wasn’t a serious project.

“I only heard of the mammoth cloning and thought it would be an interesting idea to propose.

“The idea of cloning came to me as a scientific possibility with interesting futuristic legal arguments – beyond what current laws even consider.

“If the Beatle was cloned, it could be argued he would have a right to part of his estate.

“This was for theoretical banter and perhaps was taken too seriously at the time.

“But it was a wake-up call to the estate that the tooth could be upsetting their control.

“Most Lennon fans were likely irritated by the way Julian was treated by the estate and it seems unfair.”

Lennon was gunned down by crazed fan Mark David Chapman on December 8, 1980.

The senseless killing came just hours after Lennon signed a copy of his recently released album Double Fantasy for Chapman.

Lennon and Ono were returning to their Upper West Side apartment when Chapman, who was lying in wait, fired five bullets as they entered the Dakota building archway.

Four of the five hit him square in the back.

Chapman, who had been enraged by Lennon’s infamous comment in 1966 that the Beatles were “more popular than Jesus”, sat reading a paperback copy of The Catcher in the Rye until he was arrested.

He claimed he had been inspired by the protagonist of the J D Salinger novel, Holden Caulfield, who despised hypocrisy.

But the prosecution claimed Chapman simply wished to be famous.

In one confession, he said: I thought I would turn into somebody if I killed somebody.

Chapman was sentenced to 20 years to life imprisonment – and has been denied parole 13 times since he became eligible in 2000.

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