ONJ's Husband Finds New Love
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Ed - whether this turns out to be true time will only tell.
By Briana Domjen
Australian icon Olivia Newton-John’s widower John Easterling has found love again. Easterling, the founder of the Amazon Herb Company, is dating US businesswoman Sarah Owen. Page 13’s US spies have spotted the pair out and about in Santa Ynez, California several times in recent months.
It is believed they met at a New Year’s Eve event in December 2022, four months after Newton-John’s untimely death.
Owen is the founder and owner of two US companies, Striphair and Betty’s Best, which sell gentle grooming tools for horses and pets.
Sources say that in 1989, at 26, she married US actor John Wood, with James Garner, Robert Downey Jr and rock stars Don Henley and Bob Seger in attendance. The relationship lasted only four months.
Easterling is the founder of the Amazon Herb Company, which focuses on plant-based medicine, particularly in relation to cancer research.
Despite the new relationship, as recently as this year Easterling has said he does not expect to find the love he had with Newton-John ever again.
Olivia and I had a love so big and so indefinite in time,
he told a magazine. We embraced it as something even bigger than ourselves
.
We never had any petty arguments or anything like that. I mean, our whole life experience and the things that we shared and believed in were just too important. I didn’t even think love could be like that.
Page 13 reached out to Newton-John’s daughter Chloe, niece Tottie Goldsmith, Easterling and Owen for comment regarding the romance, but none returned our calls.
After meeting in the mid-2000s while both were working with an environmental non profit, Newton-John and Easterling had been friends for m ore than 15 years before their romantic relationship blossomed.
They wed in 2008 and moved into a home they branded a spiritual oasis
in Santa Ynez while the singer and actor was battling breast cancer.
Newton-John purchased the four bedroom, five-bathroom house in 2015 for $US4.7m ($6.7m).
However, in June 2024, Easterling listed the 5ha estate for sale for $US8.965m ($13.57m) and eventually sold it for $US7.95m ($12.16m) in February.
Newton-John died in August 2022 at the age of 73.
She was first diagnosed with breast cancer in 1992, which was successfully treated, but it returned in 2013 and again in 2017.