Epstein copy of Beatles’ contract may net €322k

BRIAN EPSTEIN’S copy of his management contract with The Beatles, a pact that proved to be worth millions, is being offered for sale in London next month.

The four-page document, signed October 1, 1962, by John Lennon, George Harrison, Paul McCartney and Richard Starkey — Ringo Starr’s real name — carries an estimated price of $480,000 (€321,908). The Fame Bureau auction house said yesterday it had scheduled the sale for September 4 at the Idea Generation Gallery.

The contract, also signed by Harold Hargreaves Harrison and James McCartney on behalf of their underage sons, gave Epstein a 25% cut of the band’s earnings, provided they made more than $400 each per week.