Julian Lennon had to purchase letters he wrote to his father, John Lennon, at auction because Yoko Ono refused to give them to him.
After John d*ed, control of his estate and personal belongings passed largely to Yoko. Over the years, items from John's life began appearing at auction, including letters Julian himself had written to his father as a child.
Rather than return them to the boy who wrote them, they went to the highest bidder.
Julian has had to purchase his own childhood correspondence at auction on multiple occasions.
He has also had to buy back his father's personal items, including John's Afghan coat, which Julian had a specific memory of as a child, and a cape that had belonged to John. He paid hundreds of thousands of pounds to reclaim them.
"I've had to buy back things that were an integral part of my history with my dad," Julian said. "It's been painful."