American Entertainment lawyer Lee Eastman, father of photographer Linda Eastman who became Paul McCartney's wife on March 12th, 1969, was appointed by his son-in-law to manage his personal business affairs in 1969. McCartney had wanted Eastman, rather than American show-business lawyer Allen Klein, to be hired to sort out the chaos at Apple at this time, but was outvoted by the three other Beatles, who signed a business management contract with Klein. This memo to Eastman reflects the finality of the rift amongst The Beatles, according to Ray Coleman...By mid-1969 the only question unanswered about the Beatles' future was how the group could split formally. John simply didn't care. He was off and running with Yoko...The Plastic Ono Band had utterly eclipsed the Beatles in John's affections...As far as [John] was concerned he'd served notice on Paul, George and Ringo and Klein could hammer out the details with Lee Eastman...