She was there when the Beatles recorded “The White Album,” “Abbey Road” and “Let it Be” — and she sang in the chorus of Paul McCartney’s “Hey Jude.” She sat alongside Pattie Boyd, George’s wife, and Maureen Sharkey, Ringo’s wife, at the Beatles’ final concert in 1969 on the roof of Apple’s headquarters on Savile Row.
Pattie and Maureen were cold to O’Dell when she first started hanging with the Fab Four — but George immediately connected with her.

“He was very open,” O’Dell said. “We were both Pisces. We both liked to have fun and laugh. He was also a flirt, which was what originally brought us closer.”

But when Harrison wanted to do more than just hold her hand, she rebuked him.

” ‘Stop that, George!’ I’d say, raising my eyebrow as if I were scolding a little boy,” she wrote in her memoir.

Although Harrison and O’Dell were never intimate, he was inspired to write a song for her after the Beatles disbanded called “Miss O’Dell.”

“I can tell you nothing new has happened since I last saw you / Won’t you call me Miss O’Dell?” the song goes.

O’Dell said: “It blew me away. It was so unexpected. He told me, ‘I’ve got a surprise for you. I’m going to make you famous.’ “

He strummed the song to her on his acoustic guitar as he sat next to her on the couch in his house in LA.

Harrison even invited O’Dell to come live with him and Pattie at Friar Park, their 120-room mansion in England. After Pattie got over her initial distrust of O’Dell, they became fast friends.

“George, Pattie and I drank scotch, snorted coke and played pool in the game room off the main halls,” she recalled.

Soon enough, O’Dell was playing the unwitting go-between for Pattie’s and Eric Clapton’s secret love affair. Clapton would pretend to come to Friar Park to see O’Dell — while he was really fervently in love with Harrison’s wife, the object of his desire in the song “Layla.”

Pattie wasn’t the only one fooling around. O’Dell watched in horror as Harrison admitted to Starr that he was sleeping with Starr’s wife, Maureen.

“You know, Ringo, I’m in love with your wife,” Harrison told Starr.

“Better you than someone we don’t know,” Starr responded.

Soon after, Starr found solace in O’Dell — for three months the two were a hot and heavy couple.

She spent three weeks in the spring of 1974 with Starr at John Lennon’s beach house in Santa Monica, Calif., with May Pang, Lennon’s then-lover.