Leon Wildes, Immigration Lawyer Who Prevented John Lennon’s Deportation, Dies at 90

Leon Wildes, a prominent immigration lawyer best known for his landmark, yearslong fight in the 1970s to prevent John Lennon from being deported and enable the former Beatle to receive permanent residency in the U.S., has died at age 90. Wildes died Monday (Jan. 8) at Lenox Hill Hospital in…

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