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But some of them were a lot more than just one-night stands. Some of them got close enough to the musicians that they changed their lives. Some inspired song lyrics, some birthed their children—and every one of them got their stars in a whole heap of trouble.
Sable Starr was their queen. She was known as the “big groupie in LA.”Sable, it’s said, didn’t have to go out looking for rock stars. They came hunting for her.Sable was only 12 years old when she lost her virginity By the time she was 14, she’d been with every star from Iggy Pop to David Bowie.
To the rock stars, she was a fun time, but there’s every reason to believe that there’s a dark, untold story behind why a 12-year-old girl would spend school nights trying to sleep with grown men: when she was turned down by punk musician Wayne County Starr slit her own wrists and tried to drown herself in the pool.
She left the world of rock ‘n’ roll behind and start a new life.
Another famous one was Bebe Buell, better known today as Liv Tyler’s mother.
Before Buell became pregnant with Steven Tyler’s child, she was one of the most notorious groupies in the US. She got her start when ?” From there, she moved through Mick Jagger, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, and more.
She was in an on-again, off-again relationship with Todd Rundgren when she got pregnant with Steven Tyler’s baby. For the first 11 years of her life, Liv Tyler even believed that Rundgren was her father—until she met Steven Tyler and realized how much they were alike. Buell didn’t tell her daughter who her real father was until Liv made her admit it.
Pamela Des Barres made a name for herself, working her way from Mick Jagger to Keith Moon. She became enough of a legend on the scene that her life ended up inspiring the movie Almost Famous. 
She coined the phrase “band-aid,” after telling a reporter that groupies did more than just sleep with band members. They would “take care” of them while they were in town, she said, by taking them out shopping, stitching their shirts, and watching TV with them—and, of course, also by sleeping with them.
Frank Zappa ended up making her into a minor rock star in her own right. He formed a group called the GTOs, a band that entirely consisted of groupies, with Pamela Des Barres at the lead. And he even hired her as Dweezil and Moon Unit Zappa’s nanny.
Once she said: “Sorry you didn’t get to sleep with Mick Jagger. That’s probably what you really wanted to do, and I’m sorry you couldn’t do that. It was an awesome experienc
Cleo Odzer was 14 years old when she started sneaking into New York’s trendiest nightclubs with a fake ID to hook up with rock stars. She went through the Rolling Stones to Cream to Deep Purple. “Every two weeks there was a new band,” she said about it, “and every two weeks I had a new boyfriend.”
When she started dating Keith Emerson of Emerson, Lake & Palmer, the relationship lasted for the first time in her life. The pair fell in love, and Emerson even proposed.
All that fell apart, though, when Time released an article that called her “Super Groupie Cleo.” Emerson had no idea Cleo had gone through the whole music scene before meeting him. When he found out, he called the wedding off.
