Nora Forster

Nora Maier Forster (née Maier; 6 November 1942 – 6 April 2023) was a German-British music promoter, publishing heiress, actress, and model. Before moving to London in the late 1960s, she worked in West Germany with Jimi Hendrix, Wishbone Ash, and Yes. In London she helped to financially support the punk bands The Slits, the Sex Pistols, and The Clash. She was married to John Lydon of the Sex Pistols. Early life Nora Maier Forster was born 6 November 1942 in Munich, Germany, to a wealthy publishing family. Her father, Franz Karl Maier, worked as a "prosecutor who helped bring wartime Nazis to justice." After the end of WWII, her father was later the editor and publisher of the newspaper Der Tagesspiegel. Forster was educated in Munich and was interested in music from an early age. After she finished school, she went to work for her father's media company. Forster was a publishing heiress of Der Tagesspiegel; after the death of her father she inherited a large share of his AU$ 120 million fortune. Career Forster began her work as a music promoter in Munich. Her home there became a meeting place for "rock royalty". Some of the acts she worked with in West Germany were Jimi Hendrix, Wishbone Ash, and Yes. She found German society to be too restricting and decided to move to London with her daughter in the latter half of the 1960s.