![]() Olivia and three of her class-mates from school formed Sol Four, a short-lived all-girl group, when she was fourteen years of age often performing in a coffee shop owned by her brother-in-law. She maintained the 187 acre (75.7 ha) Dalwood farm at Byron Bay, New South Wales, Australia for forty years until selling in 2019. Since 2015, Olivia and John have lived in their 12 acre (4.85 hectares) horse ranch in the Santa Ynez Valley in Santa Barbara County, California. Her paternal grandparents had passed away whilst she was in Australia: Oliver (John) (1880-1959) and Daisy (Newton) (1883-1965), a former member of the Royal Welsh Ladies Choir.Īfter relocating to the United States of America, Olivia resided in Malibu, California, where she owned several properties, including a horse ranch and beach houses over the next forty years. It is to be assumed, as biographies do not tend to touch on extended family, that when Olivia returned to England (accompanied by her mother) in 1966 she re-united with her maternal grandparents in Germany, Max (1882-1970) and Martha (1891-1972). ![]() Olivia also enjoyed close relationships with her brother, Doctor Hugh Newton-John (1939-2019), and sister, actress Rona (1941-2013), until their deaths. Olivia and Chloe maintained a close relationship, even recording and releasing a single, Window in the Wall, a duet about unity in January 2021. Olivia has been married to John Easterling, founder and president of the Amazon Herb Company, since 2008. ![]() She met and had a relationship with gaffer/cameraman Patrick McDermott from 1996 until he disappeared in 2005. She was married to Matt Lattanzi, who she had met four years earlier while filming Xanadu, from 1984 to 1995 (they had a daughter, Chloe Rose, in 1986). Olivia attended Christ Church Grammar School, South Yarra and then the University High School, Parkville.įollowing engagement to producer and co-writer Bruce Welch from 1968 to 1972, Olivia had a relationship with British businessman Lee Kramer from 1973 to 1979. After moving to Sydney in retirement in 1981 he was a regular presenter on the fine music radio station 2 MBS–FM. He had played the violin during his school years and is said to have considered a career as a professional singer for a time. ![]() Maybe her musical talent was inherited from her Dad. He subsequently married again in 1963, and gave Olivia another two (half) siblings. It was not until 1981 that the Commonwealth Government expected residents to take up Australian citizenship, at which time Olivia did so.Ībout 1958 Olivia's parents separated and subsequently divorced, with her father taking up a university appointment in Newcastle, New South Wales. Īs was the custom of the time, with Australia still closely tied to the United Kingdom (in legal circumstances), Olivia remained a British citizen. Olivia's maternal grandfather was German Jewish Nobel Prize-winning physicist and mathematician, Max Born, who was instrumental in the development of quantum mechanics.Īt the age of five years, aboard the P&O ocean liner RMS Strathaird, Olivia migrated with her parents, brother Hugh and sister Rona (nine and seven years her senior) to Melbourne, Victoria, Australia where her father had obtained an appointment as Professor of German and Master of Ormond College at the University of Melbourne. She was the younger daughter of Welsh-born Brinley 'Bryn' Newton-John (1914-92), Headmaster of the Cambridgeshire High School for Boys and a former MI-5 officer, and German-born Irene Born (1914-2003). Olivia Newton-John was born on 26th September 1948 in Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, England, United Kingdom as virtually-bankrupt Great Britain was beginning to recover from the Second World War. She is best known though for her role as Sandy in the musical "Grease". She was a four-time Grammy Award winner and with global sales of more than 100 million records, is one of the best-selling music artists from the second half of the 20th century to the present. When asked, she never hesitated to describe herself as Australian. Olivia Newton-John DBE AC was awarded the Companion of the Order of Australia.ĭame Olivia Newton-John DBE AC DLitt was a British-born Australian singer, songwriter, actress, activist for environmental and animal rights causes, and advocate for breast cancer research who lived most of her adult life in the United States. ![]()
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