She stated during an interview published in the June 1973 edition of Star magazine that she had met Rod Stewart, Led Zeppelin, Alice Cooper, David Bowie, Mick Jagger, Elton John, and Marc Bolan.

[4] Starr became one of the first "baby groupies" who in the early 1970s frequented the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whisky a Go Go, and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco; these were trendy nightclubs on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip.

[5] During the time Starr was a groupie, she continued to live at home with her family and attended Palos Verdes High School to placate her parents.

[2][5] In 1973, Starr gave a candid interview for the short-lived Los Angeles-based Star magazine, and boasted to the journalist that she considered herself to be "the best" of all the local groupies.

Lori Mattix, a fellow baby groupie, claimed that Starr once told her to "keep her hands" off Jimmy Page, saying "if you touch him, I will shoot you.

[8] Tired of the physical abuse Thunders often inflicted upon her, and unable to adjust to life in New York, Starr moved back to Los Angeles.

[8] Starr made frequent visits to New York, where she had an affair with Richard Hell, befriended Nancy Spungen, and participated in the local burgeoning punk rock scene.