Elliot Mintz became the long distance confidant of John Lennon and Yoko Ono. Then he saw the cruel side of Lennon and picked up the pieces after the former Beatle was fatally shot.

John Lennon was gunned down outside his New York City apartment building, The Dakota, on Dec. 8, 1980, at age 40. Elliot Mintz wrote a memoir about their friendship.

Their closet was organized according to waist size, says Elliot Mintz, whose new book 'We All Shine On', out Oct. 22, shares intimate stories from his close friendship with John Lennon and Yoko Oko.

Yoko Ono's best friend Elliot Mintz has claimed the artist was warned by her "advisers" that her husband John Lennon was "in danger" before his assassination.

John, Yoko & Me' by Elliot Mintz, we see Lennon's take on mortality and what a palm reader told the famous couple about death

Imagine John Lennon and Yoko Ono co-hosting a daytime talk show for a week — a veritable Kelly Ripa and Mark Consuelos. That’s exactly what happened 52 years ago when the erstwhile Beatle and his wife brought peace,

John Lennon and Yoko Ono were “obsessed” with their weight during their time in the spotlight. Former Los Angeles radio and TV announcer Elliot Mintz, who was close friends with Lennon and Ono, claimed how they were “obsessed with staying skinny” in his memoir “We All Shine On: John,

A former broadcaster who was close friends with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in the decade before Lennon’s 1980 murder said the lithe couple were “obsessed with staying skinny.” Elliot Mintz, who hosted several radio and television programs in Los Angeles and first met Ono when he interviewed her for her 1971 album Fly,

John Lennon and Yoko Ono's extremely close friend, Elliot Mintz, is gearing up to release a new memoir, We All Shine On: John Yoko & Me, that reveals intimate details about one of the couple's most surprising obsessions.