Lori Maddox

Lori Maddox was a 14-year-old groupie who had a personal relationship with Led Zeppelin guitarist Jimmy Page in the early 1970s.

Page became infatuated with the teenage girl after he had seen some pictures she had made for some modelling agencies. During Led Zeppelin's 1972 tour of America, Page got road manager, Richard Cole, to smuggle her up to his room at the Continental Hyatt House Hotel. Firstly, because she was underage and secondly because Page was also seeing Miss Pamela from The GTOs. A groupie known to beat up love rivals.

Maddox and Page then began a relationship that lasted for several years. During visits to LA, manager Peter Grant kept Maddox locked in Page's suite because he was so worried about the legal issues.

Nevertheless Page met Maddox's mother who accepted the relationship because the English guitarist behaved 'properly and gentlemanly' towards her daughter.

Maddox was born February 6 1958 in Los Angeles, California. She became part of the groupie scene in the early 1970s when she attempted to break into modelling. These girls were referred to as "The LA girls of '72".

She was one the many girls who frequented popular nightclubs on the Sunset Strip such as The Rainbow Bar and Grill, The Whiskey, and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco.

Her friendships included other Los Angeles groupies such as Sable Starr, Morgana Welch and Queenie.

Later Maddox modeled for Star Magazine in her later teen years. A short-lived publication that highlighted the contemporary Los Angeles groupie scene.

After Page, she drifted around the West Coast concert scene for several years reportedly been romantically linked with famous artists such as David Bowie, the late Keith Moon, Sylvain Sylvain and Iggy Pop.

Today she lives privately in California and currently works in retail.

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