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Peter Yarrow, Folk Music Great With Peter, Paul and Mary, Dead at 86

Peter Yarrow, a folk legend who sang in Peter, Paul and Mary, and later received a presidential pardon over a child sex abuse conviction, has died.

At his sentencing, the folk singer’s lawyer reportedly called the Winter sisters “groupies,” while stating that Yarrow was seeking psychological treatment and that his condition had improved since his marriage to McCarthy. Then, in its 2021 exposé, The Washington Post uncovered a wire report in a Cincinnati newspaper about Yarrow’s 1970 conviction that included an additional note claiming a “similar charge” against the folk singer was “ignored” by a local grand jury three years prior. In response, Yarrow said he fully supported “the current movements demanding equal rights for all and refusing to allow continued abuse and injury — most particularly of a sexual nature, of which I am, with great sorrow, guilty.”

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