![]() A bit later on she came storming out again and drove away.” Later on, Jane’s mother arrived to retrieve Jane’s things. She’d come back…earlier than she was supposed to. One of the fans who used to hang around McCartney’s house at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St Johns Wood, London, says that “…Paul brought this American girl home……another car turned into Cavendish Avenue - it was Jane. According to most accounts, Asher returned to find them in bed together. Schwartz says they had nicknames for one another: he was “Mr. While Jane Asher was away on holiday, Schwartz lived with McCartney. McCartney gave her a job working for Derek Taylor, Apple Corps’ Public Relations manager, writing press releases for various Apple Corps artists including James Taylor, Mary Hopkin, Badfinger and Jackie Lomax. ![]() A relationship developed and he later invited her to move in with him at 7 Cavendish Avenue in St John’s Wood, where he was living at the time. McCartney was standing there in conversation with some business contacts. This was prior to Apple Corps’ move to Savile Row later in 1968. She came to London on 3 April 1968 and, a few days later, walked into the reception room of their first office at 95 Wigmore Street. She thought the story would be perfect for Paul McCartney with the addition of his lyrical and romantic musical melodies. Her script was for a film about a street violinist and actor she had met when he was doing his act in front of Carnegie Hall, New York City. She met the Beatles at a critical point in their development, when they were making the White Album. Intrigued by the Beatles‘ formation of the Apple Corps, which she had read about in the American magazine Rolling Stone, she went to London at the age of 23 to see if one of her scripts was of interest to what she regarded as the “non-establishment“. Shortly after, Schwartz sold the story of her time at Cavendish Avenue to Rolling Stone magazine. She attended many sessions during the recording of the White Album, and was living with McCartney when Lennon and Yoko Ono were also invited to live there. Schwartz was then asked by McCartney to move into his Cavendish Avenue house, and was given a job working for Derek Taylor at Apple, which was then based in Wigmore Street, London. Schwartz, a twenty-three-year-old New York scriptwriter, had travelled to London to interest Apple Corps in a film script. Asher has consistently refused to publicly discuss that part of her life. McCartney and Asher later attempted to mend their relationship, but finally broke up in July 1968. ![]() Asher broke off the engagement in the summer of 1968 after coming back from an acting assignment in Bristol to find McCartney in bed with another woman, Francie Schwartz. On 25 December 1967, McCartney and Asher announced their engagement, and she accompanied McCartney to India in February and March 1968.
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