Mattix began frequenting clubs on the Sunset Strip in West Hollywood with her friend Sable Starr,[3] particularly the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whisky a Go Go and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco.
[4] Mattix did not travel with Led Zeppelin while they were on tour, but she claimed Page stationed himself in Los Angeles and would frequently fly back there to see her between concerts in the band's private jet, The Starship.
[13] Lori Mattix is said by Led Zeppelin biographers[14][15][16] to have been referenced by the band in the song "Sick Again", specifically with the lyrics: One day soon you're gonna reach sixteen Painted lady in the city of lies However, Robert Plant has said that he wrote the song in general about the many underaged groupies with whom the band were acquainted on their 1973 US Tour.
"[1] However, Starr gave a conflicting account of the same night's events, claiming that she alone had sex with Bowie and that Mattix was no longer with them by the time they were at the hotel.
[1] She has also claimed to have had affairs with Jeff Beck, Ronnie Wood, T. Rex's Mickey Finn, Angela Bowie, Keith Emerson, Carl Palmer and Jimmy Bain.
The issue later became a central debate topic across social media, prompting a widespread review of how such stories should be understood in the #MeToo era.
My perspective is changing as I get older and more cynical.Rebecca Hains, a children's media culture expert, viewed the problem as a symptom of sexism in the music industry, arguing that it is a "sad commentary on our culture that modern masculinity can be so entitled, so toxic, that we are repeatedly put in the position of both loving the art and hating the man behind said art for what he did to women and/or children.
"[24] Journalist Stereo Williams framed the problem of lax social attention to such crimes as one endemic to the time period – considered unworthy of concern in the 1970s and earlier – but incompatible in a modern era where society has a greater focus on "protecting victims and holding celebrities accountable.