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… and said what happened between her and Polanski wasn't that shocking because many people were having an illicit relationships with minors at the time.
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It certainly wasn’t unusual in the film and music industries. The early 70s was the peak/nadir of the jail-bait trend, where celebrities sought out ever-younger girls. Groupie Pamela des Barres recounted in her book that once rock stars got bored with screwing run-of-the-mill 16 and 17 year old groupies, it became de rigueur to go after the really young ones. Lori Mattox, who was 14 when Bowie and Jimmy Page had ‘relationships’ with her, being the most famous.