Olivia Newton-John, an actress, singer, and four-time Grammy winner best remembered for portraying Sandy in the popular musical Grease, has passed away.
Similarly, the singer, songwriter, actress, businesswoman, and activist won four Grammys, five number-one hits, and ten top ten smashes. She also had two albums that peaked at number one in the 1970s.
Additionally, she supported the rights of animals and the environment.
Besides, her husband announced her death news on her Instagram. Here’s what we know about her parents and family history.
Olivia Newton-John Parents: Father Brinley & Mother Irene Born
On September 26, 1948, Newton-John was born on September 26, 1948, to parents Brinley Newton-John and Irene Born. She was six years old when her family relocated to Melbourne, Australia.
As per the Guardian, her father held a position as a scholar and was also an M15 agent.
Besides, her father was an MI5 agent who participated in Bletchley Park’s Enigma project. He was additionally recognized as the agent who captured Nazi chief Rudolph Hess during World War II.
Unfortunately, he passed away from cancer. Liver cancer contributed to his 1992 demise, per his obituary. At the time of his passing, Brinley Newton-John was 78.
Similarly, according to his Wikipedia profile, her mother is likewise believed to have passed away on that date in 2003.
British Singer Comes From A Jewish Family Background
Olivia is descended from Jews as a result of her Jewish maternal grandfather, the Nobel Prize-winning physicist Max Born, fleeing the Nazi regime from Germany to Britain before World War II.
Through her, Newton-maternal John’s grandmother was a third cousin of comedian Ben Elton. She also had paternal Jewish ancestry.
The lawyer Victor Ehrenberg served as her maternal great-grandfather, while the jurist Rudolf von Jhering was the father of her matrilineal great-grandmother.
Is Her Daughter Chloe Lattanzi Missing?
The daughter Chloe Lattanzi, the sole child of Olivia Newton-John, is not presumed to be missing. She never disappeared; in fact, her mother’s ex-boyfriend was the one who vanished.
The 36-year-old beauty was born in Los Angeles, California, to actress Olivia Newton-John and actor Matt Lattanzi. Besides, Lattanzi has been lucky in love, despite her parents’ divorce from one another in 1995.
She manages a legal cannabis farm in Oregon with her fiance, James Driskill, with whom she has been engaged since 2010.
Although Covid-19 had disrupted her daughter’s wedding preparations, her mother told Daily News in September 2021 that she had already chosen her dress.
Newton-John stated in an interview: “I had that beautiful experience, but she’s got her garment.”
Newton-John’s Ex-Boyfriend Faked His Own Disappearance
Ten years after fabricating his disappearance, Patrick McDermott, the ex-boyfriend of Olivia Newton-John, allegedly lived in a rural area of Mexico with a German lover.
At the time of McDermott’s disappearance, Chloe was only 11 years old. On a nighttime fishing trip off the coast of San Pedro, California, in 2005, McDermott unexpectedly went missing.
Before pretending to vanish, he had recently filed for bankruptcy due to unpaid child support and other expenses. When he went missing in November 2008, the Coast Guard conducted a massive search but came up empty-handed.
In January 2009, investigators discovered proof that he was alive; a few weeks later, McDermott had a letter sent on his behalf confirming these facts.