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Linda Louise McCartney, Lady McCartney (née Eastman , formerly See ; September 24, 1941 – April 17, 1998) was an American photographer , musician and animal rights activist . Her father and mother were Lee Eastman and Louise Sara Lindner Eastman .
In 1969 she married Beatle Paul McCartney and later joined McCartney's band Wings . In the same year McCartney adopted her daughter, Heather Louise , from her first marriage to John See. The McCartneys had three children together: Mary Anna , Stella Nina , and James Louis . She became Lady McCartney when her husband was knighted in 1997.
She wrote several vegetarian cookbooks, became a business entrepreneur (starting the Linda McCartney Foods company) and was a professional photographer, publishing Linda McCartney's Sixties: Portrait of an Era . McCartney was diagnosed with breast cancer in 1995, and died at the age of 56 on 17 April 1998 in Tucson, Arizona, where the McCartneys had a ranch. She left her entire estate to her husband through what is known as a Qualified Domestic Trust Fund, which allows deferral of estate taxes due on her assets until after her husband's death.

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