She became the first playmate to receive 10,000 for a centerfold. Today in the Paste Vault, we’re going back to Sept. 13, 1981, the night Buell played with her own band at the Palladium in New York City.īuell had come to New York as a model, having been discovered by Eileen Ford, namesake of Ford Models. After her move from small-town Virginia, she was immediately launched into an impressive career, even becoming Playboy’s Playmate of the Month in 1974. Quickly, she became a regular at Max’s Kansas City, a regular haunt for rock stars and wannabes of the time. She became fast friends with the likes of Patti Smith and Andy Warhol, not to mention her laundry list of famous boyfriends. In 1977, while in a relationship with Rundgren, she gave birth to her daughter, the actress Liv Tyler, following a fling with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler. Playboy Plus Classics - Moons In June BEBE BUELL, MISS NOVEMBER 1974. She also had designs on a singing career. Though Buell has often been pegged as the quintessential “groupie”-she is said to have been a source of inspiration for Kate Hudson’s character Penny Lane in the 2000 film Almost Famous, written by her friend, Cameron Crowe-she rejects the term. In a 2012 interview with ELLE Magazine, she provided a simple explanation for her track record of famous beaus, saying, “Talented, beautiful people tend to fall in love with each other.” Buell worked hard to leave her own imprint on the music industry.
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