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Peggy Caserta, Janis Joplin’s Onetime Lover, Dead at 84
Peggy Caserta, the former lover of Janis Joplin who wrote a pair of memoirs about her time with the singer, has died at age 84.
Peggy Caserta, a friend and onetime lover of Janis Joplin who wrote a pair of memoirs about the singer and their relationship, died at 84 on Thursday, Nov. 21. In 1973, Caserta, a fixture of San Francisco’s Haight-Ashbury scene where she befriended Joplin and the Grateful Dead, published the book Going Down With Janis, which detailed her friendship and eventual romance with the Sixties rock & roll singer. The book also included some wild claims, most notably Caserta’s theory that Joplin didn’t die from a drug overdose in Los Angeles in 1970.
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