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Ca. late 1980s - Maureen Starkey Tigrett and her daughter Lee Parkin Starkey.

Found via Children of the Beatles on Instagram. Unknown futher details.

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August 7, 1991 - British fashion designer Lee Starkey attends a screening of 'The Commitments' at the Cinerama Dome, Hollywood, California.

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Wednesday October 14, 1998 - Ex-Beatle Ringo Starr’s daughter Lee Starkey, Starr’s wife Barbara Bach, and rock legend and ex-Beatle Paul McCartney with son James, attend McCartney’s daughter Stella McCartney for Chloe’s Spring/Summer ‘99 ready-to-wear fashion show in Paris.

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May 21, 1992 - Celebrating the third anniversary of Bill Wyman’s Sticky Fingers restaurant at London’s Hard Rock Cafe are: Jason Starkey, Mary and Stella McCartney, an unknown woman, Giles Martin, Maureen Tigrett and Lee Starkey.

Photo by: Richard Young/Shutterstock (alternate versions of the ones published here already).

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Summer 1991 - Lee Starkey on a night out in Los Angeles, wearing the designs she sells at her “Planet Alice” boutique. Uknown further details. 

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Monday April 6, 1992 - Jason Starkey, Mary McCartney, Lee and Zak Starkey attend the London’s Royal Albert Hall charity concert billed as “The Natural Law Party Presents George Harrison & Friends – Inspiration To The Youth Of Great Britain – Election Is A Celebration”.

George Harrison and Ringo Starr performed along with Eric Clapton, Zak Starkey and others, and enjoyed a reunion with Julian Lennon. 

Photo by: Richard Young/Shutterstock (alternate version of the one published here already).

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Tuesday June 16, 1992 - Hard Rock Cafe London’s 21st anniversary. She’s wearing the clothes she’s selling at her “Planet Alice” Los Angeles boutique.

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RINGO STARR’S DAUGHTER LEE

1991, November 2nd  - HELLO! Magazine

Spotlight on the children of the stars

RINGO STARR’S DAUGHTER LEE

Sixties Fashion – not The Beatles – is what this young tycoon is into

Just look at Ringo Starr’s little girl now!

The ex-Beatle’s daughter, Lee Starkey, now 21 (“People look at me and still think I’m 13”), has become Hollywood’s latest fashion tycoon, selling dazzling sequined hot pants, microscopic mini skirts and psychedelic kaftans like hot-cakes from her very own boutique, slap in the middle of Los Angeles' trendiest district, Melrose Avenue.

“Daddy didn’t help at all with money,” says Lee, giving a delighted spin as she proudly models a selection of her favourite gear, all designed by herself and her partner, Christian Paris, 30.

“Daddy has given me plenty of moral support though – he brought all his friends to our grand opening. Sometimes he just walks in unexpectedly and drags people in off the street to see our clothes!

“He’s thrilled that at last I’ve found something I love to do.”

Lee Starkey was five when her mother Maureen and famous father Ringo divorced in 1975. And although her parents have since remarried (her mother to Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett, and Ringo to actress Barbara Bach) the extended family are all fast friends.

And when their little girl opened her very own boutique in Hollywood, both parents turned up along with brothers Zak, 25, and Jason, 23, to cheer her on.

“I’m by no means an expert on the Beatles,” admits Lee with a pretty smile. “If I want to know something about the Beatles, I simply ask my dad. But what I am drawn to is the fashions of the Sixties. That’s where I get my inspiration. I’ve tried to bring the vibrancy and colour and freedom of those fashions into the Nineties.”

And Lee’s splashily painted shop, dubbed Planet Alice, is doing a roaring trade, proving her ideas have hit the jackpot.

Lee tried acting, make-up school and even the drums before she finally hooked up with partner Christian Paris of whom she says: “We’re very fond of each other, but it’s just platonic.”

Christian already owned a Planet Alice store in London’s Portobello Road, a business he operated along with the London disco Alice in Wonderland.

He still owns his disco, but under Lee’s urging he’s now relocated his clothing boutique to Hollywood.

“We’ve only been open a month, but already I can see Lee’s idea was sound – sales are blistering,” says Christian happily, as he rings up a $1,000 sale to a group of visiting Miami Latinos who were dressed in clothes bought at Planet Alice only the previous day.

“Lee has so much energy, such wonderful ideas. And when she starts modelling like today – the cash register fairly clangs!”

REPORT: RODERICK BARRAND

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