in the late 1960s musicians george
harrison and eric clapton found
themselves fighting over the same woman
that woman was george harrison's then
wife a model named patty boyt eric
managed to steal george's wife away from
him all the while remaining friends with
the beatles guitarist some have
speculated the musician used voodoo to
do so many years later patty boyd came
out with an intimate account of the
story joined facts first as patty boyd
hides nothing about her tragic love
triangle
though not all popular music fans will
know the name patty boyd they'll likely
be familiar with the two famous songs
written about her patty's a former model
that found herself the object of
affection of two competing musicians
during the late 1960s that was of course
george harrison and eric clapton george
harrison wrote the song something for
patti during their marriage the song was
included on the 1969 album abbey road
eric clapton certainly had a lot to live
up to if he wanted to compete
romantically with george harrison but he
did so by writing the song leila eric
ended up recording the song with his new
band derek and the dominoes and it was
released on the band's 1970 album layla
and other assorted love songs before the
album's release eric premiered the song
to patty in private eric had already
expressed his romantic interest in patti
before showing her the song he'd written
for her according to her eric played the
song three times over for her before
asking her what she thought patty
claimed she was immediately worried the
public would know the song was about her
but this didn't end up being the case
paddy was so moved by the fact eric
wrote the song about her she finally
gave in to the guitarist's romantic
advances things only got more serious
between patty and eric later that
evening paddy went to a party while
george stayed home eric clapton ended up
being at the same party and he and patty
began socializing george showed up at
the party later and wasn't happy when he
saw how close patty and eric were
getting upon approaching the two george
was told by eric he was in love with his
wife patty boyd and george harrison met
in 1964 while the beatles were filming a
hard day's night paddy was hired on to
the film to play the part of a school
girl and she was immediately stricken by
the appearance of the band's guitarist
though patty was apparently dating
someone else at the time she couldn't
help but fall for george's advances when
it turned out he felt the same way
george harrison apparently mockingly
asked paddy boyd to marry him during
their initial conversation although the
guitarist was just goofing around the
two ended up marrying only a few years
later it was several years into their
marriage that george wrote the iconic
song something for his new wife though
things had already apparently taken a
turn for the worse in their relationship
in 1968 the beatles went on their famous
trip to india where they studied
metaphysical concepts alongside the
maharishi mahesh yogi after coming back
from the trip george became incredibly
obsessed with yoga and esotericism and
patty didn't quite like the impact these
new-found fascinations had on her
husband apparently the thing george
harrison was most stricken about by the
yogi way of life was that all the
various gurus had a stable of concubines
upon his return to america it was
george's goal to emulate this trait in
doing so he began to be rampantly
unfaithful to patty boyd during this
time period patty became incredibly
depressed this opened the opportunity
for eric to step in and seduce her hey
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boyd
according to patty boyd she became
incredibly hurt when george harrison
began to express romantic interest in
other women during their marriage one of
the women paddy suspected george of
becoming involved with was actually a
former flame of eric clapton's george
invited her to come stay with him and
patty after she and eric broke up with
george explaining to his wife she needed
a place to stay because she was
distraught but patty began noticing the
woman didn't seem very distraught and
instead seemed to be spending quite a
bit of time fraternizing with her
husband after a bit of time of patty
coexisting under one roof with george
and eric clapton's former flame paddy
apparently gave her husband an ultimatum
patty left the house and told george she
wasn't going to return until the other
woman was gone a short time later george
called her and told her the woman was
indeed gone and she could come back as
things got worse between paddy and
george eric clapton began coming over
more and more george and eric had become
friends with clapton often coming over
to harrison's house to work on music but
now it seems the real reason eric may
have been coming over was to get closer
to patty though patty claims eric was
incredibly shy around her at the time
the guitarist managed to win her over
with his subtle charm eric apparently
took the time to notice small things
about her which is something george had
long since stopped doing eric knew he
couldn't have patty so he ended up
setting his sights on paddy's teenage
sister eric met her sister paula in 1969
when paddy took her along to a concert
the two became instantly smitten and
paula was soon living with eric at his
mansion but eric wasn't satisfied with
paula and still felt he needed paddy it
was around this time eric wrote layla
before inviting patti over to listen to
the song eric wrote her an anonymous
letter expressing he was still in love
with her patty initially assumed that a
crazed fan had written the letter but a
later phone call from clapton revealed
it was in fact he who had written it
patty boyd was born in 1942 and was
working as a shampoo girl during her
teenage years when someone spotted her
who worked for the magazine honey that
person offered patty a job as a model
and the work led to appearances in other
magazines including elle and vogue
before law patty was offered her
life-changing role in a hard day's night
she had worked previously with director
richard lester in a series of
commercials george and patty married in
1966 and remained married until 77
despite the fact that their marriage
began deteriorating soon after its
inception two years after officially
divorcing george harrison paddy went on
to tie the knot with eric clapton a
decade after he wrote layla for her
sadly their love story didn't turn out
much better soon into their marriage
eric began cheating on paddy with
various other women much of this
behavior was spurned on by eric's
worsening pattern of substance abuse
after a decade of trying to make things
work patty and eric ended up divorcing
in 1989. she then decided she didn't
want to date any more rock stars instead
she found a third husband and property
developer rod weston they started dating
in 1991 shortly after her divorce from
eric clapton but they didn't get married
until recently in 2015. although paddy
boyd coming out with her intimate
account of what happened between her
george harrison and eric clapton put a
good deal of speculation to rest
regarding the love triangle there are
some who believe that what really
happened between the three involved
voodoo some think that clapton used
voodoo to steal george harrison's wife
from him and they also credit said
voodoo with george and eric remaining
friends according to those who believe
these tales eric clapton learned voodoo
from fellow musician dr john who
allegedly gave the guitarist a love
potion that he gave to paddy boyd now
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