Starr died at her home in Nevada on April 18, 2009, of brain cancer at the age of 51. She became a table game dealer at Carson Valley Inn in Minden until shortly before her death. By the early 1980s, she was no longer part of the groupie milieu. She 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. He really destroyed the Sable Starr thing'. After I was with him, I just wasn't Sable Starr anymore. She claimed that 'he tried to destroy my personality. Tired of the physical abuse Thunders often inflicted upon her, and unable to adjust to the New York lifestyle, Starr moved back to Los Angeles. He had wanted to marry her after she became pregnant with his child, but she refused and instead had an abortion. Their relationship did not last, mainly due to his violent jealousy and drug addiction. She went to live with him in New York City. She ran away from home when she was 16 after meeting Johnny Thunders, guitarist in the glam rock band the New York Dolls. Model Bebe Buell described Starr as having been one of the two top Los Angeles groupies of the era, adding that 'every rock star who came to Los Angeles wanted to meet her'. He's mine.' Her closest friends in Los Angeles were fellow groupies Shray Mecham and 'Queenie'. 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. Starr admitted to having gotten into fights with rival groupies. She was often photographed alongside well-known rock musicians these photos appeared in American rock magazines such as Creem and Rock Scene. When asked how she attracted the attention of the musicians, she maintained it was because of the outrageous glam rock clothing she habitually wore. She also claimed that she was closely acquainted with some of rock music's leading musicians, such as David Bowie, Rod Stewart, and Alice Cooper. In 1973, she 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.

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. She had considered herself unattractive, so she had a nose job when she was 15. Starr later described herself at that period as having been 'nuts to begin with. She got started after a friend invited her to the Whisky A Go Go at the age of 14. The girls were named as such because of their young age.

Starr became one of the first 'baby groupies' who in the early 1970s frequented the Rainbow Bar and Grill, the Whisky a GoВ Go, and Rodney Bingenheimer's English Disco these were trendy nightclubs on West Hollywood's Sunset Strip. She claimed to have had sexual intercourse when she was 12, with adult male Spirit guitarist Randy California after a gig at Topanga, California. Starr first attended concerts around Los Angeles in late 1968 at the age of 11, together with older friends who had dropped out of school. 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.

Sabel Hay Shields (AugвЂ“ April 18, 2009), better known as Sable Starr, was a famous groupie, often described as the 'queen of the groupie scene' in Los Angeles during the early 1970s.

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