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Michele was born on January 30th, 1951 in New York City and was raised in Greenwich Village by a single mother, Gina. Michele and her older sister grew up as part of the bohemian, counter-culture with Gina being an avid hippie. When Michele was a teenager she started modeling for the popular boutique, Paraphernalia. She also worked at the Night Owl Cafe where up-and-coming musicians like The Doors, The Mamas & the Papas, Bob Dylan, and The Lovinā Spoonful were just getting started.
She claims sheās been a rock music fangirl her whole life, with Elvis being her first celebrity crush when she was 5 years old. Only a d
Michele was born on January 30th, 1951 in New York City and was raised in Greenwich Village by a single mother, Gina. Michele and her older sister grew up as part of the bohemian, counter-culture with Gina being an avid hippie. When Michele was a teenager she started modeling for the popular boutique, Paraphernalia. She also worked at the Night Owl Cafe where up-and-coming musicians like The Doors, The Mamas & the Papas, Bob Dylan, and The Lovinā Spoonful were just getting started.
She claims sheās been a rock music fangirl her whole life, with Elvis being her first celebrity crush when she was 5 years old. Only a decade later she went out with her first musician conquest: 18-year-old Ralph Scala of the one-hit wonder band, the Blues Magoos. According to Micheleās chapter of Pamela des Barresā 2007 book "Letās Spend the Night Together", Ralph was her first everything: first time backstage, first time traveling on a tour bus, first time having sex, first time living away from home, etc. All with mom Ginaās blessing. After living with Ralph in the Hotel Albert for a few months, the two broke up, but Michele was still hooked on the rockstar lifestyle.
Her next boyfriend was future Aerosmith frontman and then high schoolmate Steven Tyler, when she was 16 and he was 18. This time Steven introduced her to party drugs like pot and LSD, when he wasnāt performing in the local band Chain Reaction. In "Letās Spend the Night Together", Michele called Steven the best lover she ever had. The couple broke up after around a year of dating because she couldnāt keep up with his crazy antics off stage.
Next up for Michele was Gram Parsons of the Flying Burrito Bros in 1969 for a four day long, lost weekend in southern California. It was also this weekend that she and Pamela first met and became quick friends. In "Letās Spend the Night Together", Pamela states there was a bi-curious moment between them the night of their meeting too. Michele would only see Gram on two different occasions because of his on-again/off-again fiancĆ©e Nancy Ross.
That same year, Michele first met 21-year-old Led Zeppelin singer Robert Plant at the Gotham Hotel after a show. They were instantly attracted to each other, but only saw each other when the band was on tour because Robert had wife Maureen and daughter Carmen back in the UK. While Michele was his main LA groupie from roughly 1969-1971, she made a hand-embroidered vest for him that can be seen in many tour photos. She also says she was around for a lot of the recording sessions of āLed Zeppelin IIIā while on a trip to London. Robert and bandmate Jimmy Page even met Micheleās mom at a dinner date one time. Robert and Micheleās period together ended when Michele found out Robert was also having another affair with his sister-in-law Shirley Wilson.
Since her groupie days ended, Michele got in touch with Christianity and moved up to Portland, OR where she still resides today. Over the years, sheās reunited with both Steven and Robert at shows in Portland and LA.
Michele name-dropped Pink Floydās David Gilmour as one of her exes in a 2010 interview with Willamette Week, but she didnāt go into any details.
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