OLIVIA NEWTON JOHN - JEW

Olivia Newton John - The Jewish connnection
You’ve heard it here first - Olivia Newton John is a member of the tribe! The star of Grease through her maternal grandfather has a Jewish connection.

In a recent interview with The Independent, Olivia said: “My grandfather, the physicist Max Born, won the Nobel prize in the 1950s and was a good friend of Albert Einstein.”

Born had to flee Germany in 1933 .

A quick Google of Max Born via Wikipedia reveals: "Max Born (December 11, 1882 – January 5, 1970) was a Jewish German mathematician and physicist and was the only child of Gustav Born and Margarete Kauffmann. He is also the maternal grandfather of British singer and actress Olivia Newton-John."