John Lennon stubbed a cigarette on priceless painting at Playboy Mansion

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John Lennon was on a drunken bender in the 1970s during a year and a half separation from Yoko Ono. He was in his early 30s and nearly got the stuff kicked out of him for particularly bad - and expensive - behavior. Lennon took a priceless original Matisse painting off the wall at Hugh Hefner’s pad and put out his cigarette on it!

Hef, now 80, recalls how Lennon had accepted an invitation to visit the mansion one Sunday to watch movies and enjoy a Sunday buffet. But because of his

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Published 3/29/07 by

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interesting...what a strange small world.

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Yea, for a guy going out with 8 blonde chicks, that was a pretty classy move.

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