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Topic: Jimmy Page and Lorri Maddox

Posted By: Laurent
Subject: Jimmy Page and Lorri Maddox
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 19:11

So it's a pretty well known fact that during Zep's heyday, Jimmi Page had a love affair with a 13 year old girl named Lorri Maddox. This has always confused me a bit. Isn't it considered illegal for a grown up to have sexual relations with underage girls. Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't it be considered statutory rape?. Didn't Roman Polanski flee the country for avery much a similar thing?. I'm not here to Judge Jimmy Page, I'm sure pretty much all rock stars, back in the day, did things in their private lives that are less then commendable. I'm just a little suprised that there was never any legal action taken against Jimmy for what was pretty much a serious offence. Or was there?. Could somebody help clarify this up for me?. thanks.

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Posted By: MoodsWings
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 20:48

Laurent wrote:

So it's a pretty well known fact that during Zep's heyday, Jimmi Page had a love affair with a 13 year old girl named Lorri Maddox. This has always confused me a bit. Isn't it considered illegal for a grown up to have sexual relations with underage girls. Correct me if I'm wrong, but couldn't it be considered statutory rape?. Didn't Roman Polanski flee the country for avery much a similar thing?. I'm not here to Judge Jimmy Page, I'm sure pretty much all rock stars, back in the day, did things in their private lives that are less then commendable. I'm just a little suprised that there was never any legal action taken against Jimmy for what was pretty much a serious offence. Or was there?. Could somebody help clarify this up for me?. thanks.

I don't think there were any legal actions taken against him and I'm not sure why Roman Polanski got targeted. Jimmy just got lucky I guess. A majority of the groupies back then were underage.

Posted By: erik neuteboom
Date Posted: October 13 2005 at 21:35

Last year I read the a bit sensational Led Zeppelin biography Hammer of the gods and as I remember Jimmy Page simply got away with it but for sure he has arranged a lot of meetings with her while she was under sixteen! And he was lucky that Georg Bush junior was not yet president..!

Posted By: Politician
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 07:45

In order for legal action to be taken for underage sex, a complaint needs
to be lodged by the underage party or his/her parents. Presumably no
complaint was made in this case.

Posted By: Protagonist
Date Posted: October 14 2005 at 15:39

I wonder what happened with Lorry Maddox after that? There's 30 years distance...

Posted By: TheProgtologist
Date Posted: October 15 2005 at 08:53

If you read Stephen Davis' book Hammer of the Gods it touches on that subject.If I remember right her parents really didn't complain about it,and a lot of their rendevouz were kept pretty secret,so people didn't really know too much about it then.

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