If you don’t believe me, just ask David Bowie or Jimmy Page. When she walked into a New York room, she commanded everybody’s attention. Her subsequent dismissal from the agency only solidified her punkish image with the Big Apple insiders.īuell put the pedal to the creative metal, endearing herself to icons such as Andy Warhol, Jack Nicholson and Joey Ramone. That legendary portrayal culminated in a November 1974 Playboy centerfold spread. A former Ford Agency model, the 17-year-old Virginian blew into town and ripped the industry wide open with her innocent “country girl meets rock bad boys” image. She was the stuff of glossy magazines, late night parties with Mick Jagger and a living breathing queen of rock and roll’s most infamous scene. When I first met Bebe Buell, all I really knew about her was that she was part of New York’s underground elite.
