Bebe Buell

Buell came to New York in 1972 with a contract from a prestigious uptown modeling agency. She found work as a model — she was Playboy's Miss November in 1974 — but she found her true home downtown, mixing with rockers at cutting-edge music clubs like CBGB's. She soon moved in with Todd Rundgren, beginning a parade of rock-world lovers. Buell would later date Mick Jagger and many others. Director Cameron Crowe, who met Buell in 1975, used her as a model for the groupie Penny Lane in his film Almost Famous. Liv Tyler was conceived when Buell ran off to Europe with Steven Tyler in the summer of 1976. Her daughter was born the next year. She has reconciled with her daughter, and is singing regularly with her band, the Bebe Buell Band.