She was soon living back with her parents in Los Angeles. Their relationship ended with her slitting her wrist and being brought to Bellevue. What she thought was to be a long life with Thunders quickly fell apart mostly due to his escalating drug use. She befriended the likes of Iggy Pop, Marc Bolan, Keith Richards, Jimmy Page, David Bowie and Johnny Thunders with whom she moved to New York around 1973.
‘Til a New York doll carried her away / Look away Look away.” By the time Sable was in her early teens, she was holding court in Hollywood’s hippest spots, from Rodney Bingenheimer’s English Disco to the Whiskey a Go-Go from the Rainbow to the Sunset Hyatt. Iggy Pop’s “Look Away,” written about Johnny Thunders’ relationship with Starr includes the lines, “I slept with Sable when she was 13 / Her parents were too rich to do anything / She rocked her way around L.A. Some may refer to her as a “groupie” but Starr transcended that by being part of a select club who have been memorialized in song. She ruled ’70s Los Angeles and no doubt left many a-broken heart in her wake. The two would later have a threesome with Starr.Following in the tradition of Miss Pamela, Sweet Sweet Connie and Cynthia Plaster Caster, Sable Starr loved rock music and at times the rock musicians that moved her. Is Sable Starr still alive?īirth Palos Verdes Estates, Los Angeles County, California, USAīurial Details Unknown, Specifically: Currently Researchingĭavid Bowie Then, months later, she and fellow underage groupie Sable Starr ended up in a hotel room with Bowie, and the rock star took Maddox into a bathroom, got in a bath with her, and then had sex with her. She was survived by her partner, her daughter, and her son. Starr died at her home in Nevada on April 18, 2009, of brain cancer at the age of 51. Later in his career, Iggy dedicated his song ‘ Look Away‘ released in 1996 to her, in which he recollects their affair back in 1970: “I slept with Sable when she was 13 / Her parents were too rich to do anything / She rocked her way around L.A / Until a New York Doll carried her away,” he sings. Model Bebe Buell described Starr as having been one of the two top Los Angeles groupies of the era, adding that “every rock star who came to Los Angeles wanted to meet her”. He’s mine.” Her closest friends in Los Angeles were fellow groupies Shray Mecham and “Queenie”. Lori Mattix, a fellow baby groupie, claimed that Starr once told her to “keep her hands” off of Jimmy Page, saying “if you touch him, I will shoot you. According to Starr, she knocked on Bianca’s hotel room and when the latter opened the door she was told “in a few four-letter words to ‘get lost'”. Starr admitted to having gotten into fights with rival groupies and she allegedly had a confrontation with Bianca Jagger, who at the time was married to Rolling Stones frontman Mick Jagger. She was often photographed alongside well-known rock musicians these photos appeared in American rock magazines such as Creem and Rock Scene. When asked how she attracted the attention of the musicians, she maintained it was because of the outrageous glam rock clothing she habitually wore. She added that her favorite rock star acquaintance was Led Zeppelin’s lead singer, Robert Plant. She also claimed that she was closely acquainted with some of rock music’s leading musicians, such as Jeff Beck, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Marc Bolan, and Alice Cooper. In 1973 she gave a candid interview for the short-lived Los Angeles-based Star Magazine, and boasted to the journalist that she considered herself to be “the best” of all the local groupies. Starr died at her home in Nevada on Apof brain cancer at the age of 51. At the time of the interview she was 16, but despite the age of consent in California being 18, none of the people she named were investigated for child sexual abuse or charged with a criminal offence in relation to these alleged encounters. She admitted during an interview published in the June 1973 edition of Star Magazine that she was closely acquainted with Iggy Pop, Mick Jagger, Rod Stewart, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, and Marc Bolan. Sabel Hay Shields (Aug– April 18, 2009), better known as Sable Starr, was a famous American groupie, often described as the “queen of the groupie scene” in Los Angeles during the early 1970s.
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