True Identity of Beatles Mystery Fan ‘Adrienne from Brooklyn’ Revealed 60 Years After Charming Video: Family

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By means of Reuven Fenton And Jorge Fitz-Gibbon

It’s been a long and winding road, but “Adrienne from Brooklyn” may have finally been found.

A bubbly teen who famously proclaimed her love for ex-Beatle Paul McCarthy in a famous 1964 film clip has been identified by her family as Adrienne D’Onofrio, the late mother of a retired NYPD detective and a Staten Island mother, The Post received.

“I love the Beatles and I will always love them, even when I’m 105 and an old grandmother,” the teen said with a trademark Brooklyn cadence in the now-viral video, which was featured in Ron’s documentary Howard from 2016 about the Fab Four titled “Eight Days a Week – The touring years.”

“And Paul McCartney, if you’re listening, Adrienne from Brooklyn loves you with all her heart.”

Now, 60 years later, McCartney has finally responded in his own clip as he promotes a collection of rare Beatles-era photos on display at the Brooklyn Museum.

“Hey Adrienne, it’s Paul,” the rock legend said on TikTok. “Listen, I saw your video. I’m in Brooklyn now, I’m in New York. I’ve finally arrived here. We have an exhibition, a photo exhibition. Come along and see.”

D’Onofrio was first identified in a Rolling Stone magazine report.

Sadly, she died in 1992, but her children – including retired police officer John D’Onofrio and his sister, Nicole D’Onofrio Panepinto – said her adorable declaration of love for the former rock ‘n’ roll heartthrob has become the stuff of family folklore.

“I’m like, ‘What! That’s my mother,” D’Onofrio said after watching the 1964 clip several years ago. ‘It looked like her and sounded like her. I took a screenshot of it and sent it to my sisters. I say, ‘Is this Mom?’ And they laughed. They said, ‘Yes, that’s Mom.’

“My mother always talked about the Beatles,” the 56-year-old former detective added. “She told us how she was outside the Ed Sullivan Theater. I still remember that story vividly. She had played hooky.

“Her father passed away when she was, I think, 9 or 10 years old, and my widowed grandmother had to work to support my mother and her older brother,” D’Onofrio said. “My mother basically had little or no supervision and it was easy for her to skip school and skip school with her friends. So she was there.”

Panepinto, 43, the youngest of Adrienne’s four children, said the family came across the video in 2016 and her brother urged the children to reveal the mystery teen’s identity.

“He said, ‘You can do something with this,’ but we never did,” she said Tuesday. “We were like, ‘No. That’s just not who we are.’ For us it was just fun.”

But that changed when they saw McCartney’s late response to their mother.

“At that moment I think, ‘Wow, this is a sign. This is the sign to say that we are Adrienne, from Brooklyn’s family,” she told The Post. “I feel like it’s a sign. When I see this now, it is a sign from her: ‘I am still with you.’

“That’s how I feel. The truth is, she’s been gone since ’92, and I have four beautiful children, and so they’re connected to her through this story.”

McCartney, 81, is one of rock music’s most iconic figures as a principal songwriter of the Beatles, who later formed the band Wings and amassed a catalog of solo material over the years.

When asked about McCartney’s late invitation to the photo exhibition, Adrienne’s children said their mother would have loved to hear from her favorite Beatle.

“I’m sure my mom would love that,” Panepinto said. “He hasn’t made any contact. Will he? Who knows? It would be magical.”