Editing Malcolm McLaren (section)

== Early years ==
McLaren was born on 22 January 1946<ref name="obit">{{cite news |first=Tom |last=Peck |title=Malcolm McLaren dies aged 64 |url=https://www.independent.co.uk/news/people/news/malcolm-mclaren-dies-aged-64-1939621.html |work=The Independent |location=UK |date=8 April 2010 |access-date=8 April 2010}}</ref> to Scottish-born<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish">{{cite news |last1=Sullivan |first1=Jim |title=How the grandson of Jewish diamond dealers created the greatest rock 'n' roll swindle of all time |url=https://forward.com/culture/503999/sex-pistols-malcom-mclaren-jewish-johnny-rotten-hulu-fx-pistol/ |access-date=6 July 2024 |work=[[The Forward]] |date=29 May 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220529160442/https://forward.com/culture/503999/sex-pistols-malcom-mclaren-jewish-johnny-rotten-hulu-fx-pistol/ |archive-date=29 May 2022 |language=en}}</ref> engineer<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish"/> Peter McLaren, an upper-middle-class<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish"/> Londoner who was at that time serving with the Royal Engineers,<ref name = Gorman>{{cite book |last1=Gorman |first1=Paul |title=The Life & Times of Malcolm McLaren: The Biography |date=2020 |publisher=Constable |isbn=978-1-4721-2109-7}}</ref> and Emily Isaacs, the daughter of tailor Mick Isaacs and independently wealthy Rose Corré Isaacs, whose father had been a [[Spanish and Portuguese Jews|Portuguese Sephardic Jewish]] diamond dealer.

McLaren's parents divorced when he was two after Peter McLaren left the family home due to his wife's serial infidelity: McLaren later alleged that her lovers included the [[Selfridges]] magnate Sir Charles Clore and Sir [[Isaac Wolfson]], owner of [[GUS (retailer)|Universal Stores]].<ref name="Gorman"/>

<blockquote>"We've talked to Malcolm's mum. Even she doesn't like him."<ref name="forward/mclaren-jewish"/> — Judy and Fred Vermorel,<ref name="google-books/HuhxPAAACAAJ">{{cite book |last1=Vermorel |first1=Fred |last2=Vermorel |first2=Judy |title=Sex Pistols: The Inside Story |date=2006 |publisher=Omnibus Press |isbn=978-1-84609-066-0 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HuhxPAAACAAJ |access-date=6 July 2024 |language=en}}</ref><!-- <ref name="factoryrecords/fred-vermorel">{{cite web |title=FRED VERMOREL |url=https://factoryrecords.org/fred-vermorel.php |website=Factory Records .org |access-date=6 July 2024}}</ref><ref name="indymedia/20287">{{cite web |last1=Vermorel |first1=Fred |title=Paris May '68 diary |url=https://arkansas.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20287/index.php |website=Arkansas IMC |access-date=6 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080510103930/https://arkansas.indymedia.org/newswire/display/20287/index.php |archive-date=10 May 2008 |location=Paris |date=May 1968}}</ref><ref name="katebushencyclopedia/vermorel-fred">{{cite web |title=Fred Vermorel |url=https://www.katebushencyclopedia.com/vermorel-fred/ |website=Kate Bush Encyclopedia |access-date=6 July 2024 |date=18 August 2018}}</ref><ref>https://paulgormanis.com/?p=16474 {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref><ref>https://www.theregister.com/2008/11/12/fred_vermorel_girls_aloud/ {{Bare URL inline|date=August 2024}}</ref> --><ref name="richmond.ac.uk/vermorel">{{cite web |title=Faculty - Fred Vermorel, Associate Professor of Communication |url=http://www.richmond.ac.uk/faculty/dr-fred-vermorel.aspx |website=Richmond University |access-date=6 July 2024 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120523190528/http://www.richmond.ac.uk/faculty/dr-fred-vermorel.aspx |archive-date=23 May 2012}}</ref> 1984</blockquote>

Subsequently, McLaren was raised by his grandmother Rose, alone,<ref name="telegraph/out-of-will">{{cite news |last1=Leigh |first1=Wendy |title=Joseph Corré: Why Sex Pistols manager Malcolm McLaren wrote me out of his will |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/why-sex-pistols-manager-malcolm-mclaren-wrote-me-out-of-his-will/ |access-date=6 July 2024 |work=[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]] |date=27 November 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20151128035831/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/men/relationships/why-sex-pistols-manager-malcolm-mclaren-wrote-me-out-of-his-will/ |archive-date=November 28, 2015}}</ref> next door at No. 49. 

At age 16, McLaren left Orange Hill with three [[O-level]]s and was briefly employed in a handful of jobs before attending classes at [[St Martin's School of Art]] and then undertaking a foundation course at [[Harrow School of Art]].<ref name="Very Brown">{{cite news|last1=Brown|first1=Sheilagh|title=Sheilagh Brown and Sheridan Barnett|url=http://www.verymagazine.org/magazine/issue-15/12-issue-15/36-sheilagh-brown-a-sheridan-barnett|access-date=5 August 2014|issue=15|publisher=Very Magazine|archive-date=8 August 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140808051917/http://www.verymagazine.org/magazine/issue-15/12-issue-15/36-sheilagh-brown-a-sheridan-barnett|url-status=dead}}</ref> Other arts institutions attended by McLaren over the next seven years included the South East Essex School of Art in [[Walthamstow]] and [[Goldsmiths, University of London|Goldsmiths]].