
Many folks in this sub will probably have already heard about Jimmy Page having a relationship with a 14 year old girl called Lori Maddox. As abhorrent as that is, (and itâs practically 100% corroborated by the way), Jimmyâs history of statutorily r*ping minors runs actually runs far far deeper than just this one case, but there is virtually zero discourse about these other stories. I hopefully aim to change this in this post.
Truthfully, I only came across these further allegations from a yt video I watched earlier today (link here: https://youtu.be/HKk5IQOPTus ), which discussed the claims at length, but in short, there are a further 5 potential victims from Jimmy's odious antics. Iâll go through each in turn.
These women are:
Cindy Wells
Corel Shields
Lynn Koenigsaecker
Cassandra Peterson (Sheâs âElviraâ in the Elvira Mistress of the Dark series for anyone whoâs familiar)
Dana Gillespie
Starting with Cindy, her and Jimmy partook in a basically fully nude photoshoot together when she was just 17 at the time. They were both in a relationship at the time. The photo was shot by Ron Raffaelli in New York and it can be found online. I wonât leave a link as Iâm honestly not sure of the legalities of the image given Cindyâs age, but if you search up something along the lines of âJimmy Page Cindy Wells Ron Raffealli Fruit Photo,â the picture and some articles about it will certainly come up. Jimmy would have been in his mid-20âs at the time of the photoshoot just to note. Further, John Cale, Cindyâs husband from 1971-1974, said that Cindy had a child with Jimmy which she gave up for adoption when she was just 16. He mentions this in his autobiography âWhatâs Welsh for Zenâ on page 148, and there would be no reason for him to fabricate this story. Link: https://archive.org/details/whatswelshforzen00cale/page/148/mode/2upÂ
The Corel Shields story is not confirmed, but there is a passage from the Iggy Pop biography âOpen up and Bleedâ by Paul Trynka, which discusses a 16 year old Corel flying from LA (the city where sheâs from) to London with Jimmy Page in the summer of 1972. She stayed with him for about a month in London, at which time Jimmy would have been 28 years old. This story is detailed on page 156-157 of the Biography. Link: https://archive.org/details/iggypopopenupble00tryn/page/156/mode/2up)Â Corel and her sister Sable were well known to have associated with Led Zeppelin at this time (the video goes into more detail about the two sisters connection to the band and the LA club scene), and Corel has herself posted pictures of her and her sister Sable backstage at a Led Zeppelin show in San Diego in 1972 on her Instagram page (her Instagram handle is 'coralshield40' if you want to see the post.) I also saw that on her Instagram page she posted a picture of herself and another person with the caption ââhanging around in London (1973) with BP, Jimmy Page and Cindy Compton.'' The yt video failed to mention this, but this could maybe be because she would have been 17 or 18 at this time?
The Lynn Koenigsaecker case is the one with the least evidence. However, there are two photographs of Jimmy with a 14 or 15 year old Lynn sitting on his lap at a club in LA. Jimmy is clearly loving it all, and it is f*cking grim. You can readily find both pictures online by searching ''Jimmy Page Lynn Koenigsaecker,'' and they should be there to see on the first few results. You can, of course, view them via the yt video as well.
Cassandra Peterson (a.k.a Elvira Mistress of the Dark) gave a harrowing interview in Pamela Des Barres book, âLetâs spend the night together,â where she said quite frankly that Jimmy Page attempted to r*pe her when she was just 15. She describes having to run away to escape from him as he wouldnât stop trying to assault her. She goes into much more detail but I'd rather not repeat it honestly. You can read it for yourself in the link to the book provided. Link: https://archive.org/details/letsspendnightto00desb/page/160/mode/2up (page 161) Cassandra then basically repeated the story in her own autobiography âMemoirs of the Mistress of the Dark.â Itâs impossible to find a working link to her autobiography, but the video contains the full quote if you want to read it. And just to note, Jimmy would have been 23 during all this.
Dana Gillespie, a well-known musician and model, has given multiple interviews over the years discussing how she was going to Indian music concerts with Jimmy Page when she was just 13 or 14. Jimmy would have been nearly 20 years of age at this time. The links to such interviews are provided below. Links: https://archive.sssmediacentre.org/journals/vol_09/01DEC11/DanaGillespie3.htm https://www.business-standard.com/article/beyond-business/still-got-the-blues-113120600984_1.html https://hamaraforums.com/index.php?showtopic=4283 (ctrl+f and search âjimmyâ and youâll come across the interview extract) She also discusses going to the concerts with Jimmy in her own autobiography âWerenât Born a Man.â A link to this autobiography is also impossible to find, but again, the video contains the full quotes if you want to read them. This so-called âfriendshipâ is weird enough in itself right? considering that Dana was potentially 13 and Jimmy was 19. Well, she also says in her autobiography that Jimmy slept with her on and off, at which time she would have been somewhere between the ages of 14-16. Wretched stuff.
It is absolutely appalling that Jimmy has escaped any sort of backlash from these mostly substantiated claims. Even if some of these allegations arenât 100% true, which barring the Lynn Koenigsaecker case, does not appear to be the case at all, the fact that these allegations have had virtually no attention or press is shocking. Why is this? Why do people turn a blind eye to this utterly reprehensible behaviour? It baffles me.Â
Thanks for reading this lengthy post, please try and spread the word about how much of a vile creep this man is.
Posted by Leather-Law7063
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The day he croaks will be a great one.Â
Zeppelin were my favorite band as a teen and Jimmy Page was my favorite guitarist. Pretty glad I outgrew them by college.
The stories about underaged (like 13-14 year olds) âbaby groupiesâ like Lori Mattix and Sable Starr and how every adult at the time failed to protect them always makes my blood boil
Thank you for sharing this information and framing his actions as harmful, predatory, exploitative., and wrong. I grew up in the 90s, and I feel the culture in the 90s and 2000s still romanticized this predation as what it means to be a “rockstar”- it seemed normal to me. The film ‘Almost Famous’ from 2000 is an example, male “Rock God” having ever-flowing access to “groupies” that of course were teenage girls. Many of whom I later learned contributed greatly to a lot of the music and iconography held up as brilliant rock n’ roll but remain uncredited, often nameless and disposable. The film actually does portray this aspect with the character Penny Lane. If you’re interested in learning more, this podcast goes in depth about some of these scenes and people:
KCRWâs celebrated music history podcast LOST NOTES returns for a raucous and ribald Season 5: GROUPIES: THE WOMEN OF SUNSET STRIP FROM THE PILL TO PUNK, an 8-part docu-series/podcast that digs deep into the teenage groupie scene of the Sunset Strip in the 1960âs and 70âs.
[https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/show-tabs/about/tab-view](https://www.kcrw.com/culture/shows/lost-notes/show-tabs/about/tab-view)
I think it’s difficult for some in older generations to let go of what’s been normalized and idealized. It is for me sometimes too. But it’s necessary to be with what’s actually here.
Why the f do all these celebrities turn out to be villains!? I’m so sick of my childhood being ruined. I’m so sick of people I enjoyed for their art being horrible people. Ok, sure if they are not perfect, I’m ok with that, people have flaws. But why do these people just use their success to abuse others? Don’t they respect the hand they’ve been dealt as wondrous luck? Can’t they just enjoy that without abusing other people further?Â
Pretty sure Bowie was the same
Letâs talk about Bowie too. Itâs so disgusting
Literally if you were in a rock band from the 60s to the 90s I just assume you fuck children.
Yeah this tracks.
My mum, and my aunt went to see Jimmy Pageâs old band The Yardbirds in Newcastle Mayfair Ballroom in 1968 when they were billed as The Yardbirds featuring Jimmy Page; she was 17 and my aunt was 14, and after the gig she was yanked away from the dressing room door by her aunt (my great aunt, now in her late 90s) because my great aunt Ethel had witnessed girls younger than my aunt (then 14) disappear backstage.
Safeguarding did not exist then, unless it was meted out by family.
Men really ainât shit
This turned me off of LZ. Glad I landed on wholesome guys like Rush, much better music anyway.
Itâs grim how children were victimized so regularly in the late 1900s.
Itâs so much worse that it wasnât just normalized, the children were demonized as the problem.
There are so many pop culture references about it⌠I donât know how every one of that time isnât considered complicit.