Anthony Cox

Anthony D. Cox (born 1937) is an American film producer and art promoter. He was married to artist Yoko Ono from 1963 to 1969.

Biography Cox met Yoko Ono in 1961, after he saw some of her art work in an anthology and located her in Tokyo, Japan. two months before their daughter, Kyoko Ono Cox, was born on August 8, 1963. Cox became a full-time caregiver for Kyoko, while both he and Ono continued with their art, collaborating as conceptual artists.

Their marriage fell apart during 1967, in part due to Ono meeting John Lennon at an art show in late 1966. Cox and Ono divorced on February 2, 1969. By 1970, Cox had married an American woman named Melinda Kendall and had moved to Denmark with Kyoko.

After a legal battle, Ono was awarded custody of Kyoko. However, in 1971, Cox—who had joined a Christian cult known as the Church of the Living Word, or "The Walk", after his divorce from Ono—vanished with his wife Melinda and Kyoko in violation of the custody order. He left "The Walk" after a few years, and in 1978, Cox and Kyoko stayed with the Jesus People USA commune in Chicago. His marriage with second wife Melinda was dissolved by the cult leader prior to leaving "The Walk".

...John Lennon and Yoko Ono were arrested and summarily deported after being accused of kidnapping Yoko's daughter Kyoko, who lived in Mallorca with her father, Anthony Cox.

Cox and Kyoko contacted Yoko Ono after the death of Lennon in 1980,

Ono did not pursue legal action on Cox. According to Kyoko, she viewed her father as “impossible,” “self-deluded” and a “major narcissist.”

In 1985, in an autobiographical documentary film, Vain Glory,