Sable Starr was born in California in 1958 as Sable Shields. She grew up in a wealthy suburb called Palos Verdes.
By her teens, she has already become the uncrowned queen of the new generation of groupies which came after the GTO`s, by hanging out in clubs like the Rodey Bingenheimer English Disco or the Wiskey A Gogo. Sable got to know members of Led Zeppelin, T-Rex, Mott The Hoople and Iggy Pop with whom she had an affair when she was 13. Iggy later dated her sister Corel.
By this time, in 1973, Sable met Johnny Thunders, the New York Dolls` guitar player. When she learnt that the Dolls were coming to LA, she gathered with some friends to offer them a warm welcome, they even brough gifts for them. Sable chose to give a gift to Johnny, Frederick`s lingerie, which was her favorite. They fell in love with eachother and, for Johnny, Sable even said goodbye to her life as a groupie.
The beggining of their relationship was a great time . They would spend all their time together, wandering through LA (they even managed to get busted for jaywalking across Hollywood Boulevard and were ordered to pay a fine to the traffic division of the juvenile court) or just staying in the hotel room.
When the Dolls came back to New York, Johnny took Sable with him. They wanted to live together, Johnny`s mother helped them to find a place to live in, an appartment on West 24th street, and fournitures for it. It was hard for Sable to bear New York`s cold winter, but Johnny took her for a buggy ride and bought her a red setter puppy for Christmass.
But their happiness didn`t last long. Johnny was very jealous and his growing use of drugs lead him to psycotic like states that made him agressive and difficult to bear. Sable, traped between her still very strong love for Johnny and her need to be happy, eventually cut her wrist. But she was found in time by the New York Dolls` second guitar player, Syl Sylvain who took her to Bellevue hospital.
She was given the chance to choose between going to the psychiatric wing or coming back to her parents. She came back to her parents. Then, she started dating Johnny again until she left him for good in 1974.
Sable later begun to split her time between LA and NY, were she met people like Debbie Harry. She used to see Johnny there as well, but then just as a friend. She dated Richard Hell for a while and came back to LA and to school and started a new, normal life.
She recently lived in Nevada with her two children, Christian and Donnay, and works at Herrod`s Casino as a 21 dealer.
She died at 51 of a brain tumour, on April 17th 2009.

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