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Peggy Caserta Dies: Janis Joplin’s Lover Whose Groundbreaking 1973 Tell-All Memoir Presented Rock Icon Through Queer Gaze Was 84
Peggy Caserta, whose candid revelations about her romantic relationship with rock star Janis Joplin were told in a 1973 tell-all book, died Thursday, November 21, at 84.
Peggy Caserta, whose candid revelations about her romantic relationship with rock star Janis Joplin were revealed in a groundbreaking if often sordid 1973 tell-all book that she later disavowed as ghostwritten exploitation, died Thursday, November 21, of natural causes at her recently purchased cabin on the Tillamook River on the Oregon Coast. She dressed the penniless Grateful Dead for photo shoots, she sold blue jeans with legs she’d widened into what would soon be known as bell-bottoms, and when her small store couldn’t keep the pants – altered by Caserta’s crafty mother back in Louisiana – in stock she arranged with the San Francisco-based Levi-Strauss to custom-make orders for her shop. Either through miscommunication or druggy inertia, neither Caserta nor Morgan showed for what was to be a get-to-know-each-other three-way sexual encounter with Joplin on the night of October 3, 1970, at the Los Angeles Hollywood Landmark Hotel near the Sunset Sound recording studio.
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