The Tragic Death Of Ringo Starr's First Wife
The duo divorced in 1975, reportedly due to a combination of Starr's untreated alcoholism and extramarital affairs, according to The Independent. Starr himself admitted that he'd been "a drunk, a wife-beater and an absent father." After the divorce, Maureen largely kept out of the limelight until her death on December 30, 1994, from complications related to treatment she was receiving for leukemia. By then she had remarried, known as Maureen Cox Starkey Tigrett. The Beatle's former flame died at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle during treatment for a pre-leukemic disease known as mylodysplastic syndrome, according to an Associated Press report posted at Spokesman.com. She was 47 years old and had been living in Los Angeles and Seattle.
Starr and his three children, along with Maureen's husband, the Hard Rock Cafe creator Isaac Burton Tigrett, and their daughter, were with her as she died. She was released from the hospital right before Christmas, a spokesman for the family said, and stayed in the Seattle area until her readmission on Christmas Day.
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