Elton John pays for ex-fiancee's knee surgery

torontosun.com:

Elton John has covered the cost of a knee replacement for a woman he was engaged to marry more than 50 years ago.Before finding fame and later coming out as gay, the Tiny Dancer star, 73, dated Linda Hannon, 76, in 1968, when he was known as Reg Dwight.

During the time the two dated, John was struggling financially and Hannon paid many of his bills.While the couple was set to be married, three weeks before the wedding, during his bachelor party, John’s songwriting partner Bernie Taupin and blues singer Long John Baldry talked him out of it.The two had not been in contact since the split but, when she was informed she would need a knee replacement operation entailing a five-week period off work, which she couldn’t afford, Linda remembered