Jane Asher

Jane Asher was born on April 5th 1946, she was almost four years younger than Paul. She was the daughter of Dr.Richard Alan John Asher (who committed suicide in 1969) and Margaret Eliot. She has a brother Peter Asher, who used to be in Peter & Gordon and a younger sister, Clare Asher. Jane came from a very different background: her parents were intellectuals, whereas Paul came from ''rough'' Liverpool. She was a child actress : she played in Mandy in 1952 and has been an actress ever since. She met Paul while she was interviewing the Beatles in 1963. George also fancied Jane (he hadn't met Pattie at the time) but Paul won her heart. They started dating and dated for five years, getting engaged in 1967. Jane said herself (when she was dating Paul) that she didn't see herself marrying anybody else...Paul was a womanizer, he didn't stop having one-night stands, he thought since they weren't married, it was allowed. This was quite common in the minds of young Liverpudlian boys. Jane was also not very keen on drugs, like Cynthia and she didn't like Paul's addiction to LSD. When she returned home after a flight, she found him very different (due to LSD). One day, she returned home early and found Paul in bed with Francie Schwartz. She immediatly left and her mom came to collect her things later. She then married the illustrator Gerald Scarfe in 1981 and had three children : Katie (1974), Alex (1981) and Rory (1984).