Peggy Caserta, whose funky Haight-Ashbury clothing boutique was a magnet for young bohemians and musicians, and who exploited her relationship with Janis Joplin in a much-panned 1973 memoir that she ...

Janis Joplin with a pink headdress reclines on a couch and smiles on the album cover for Pearl (1971). Image via Columbia Janis Joplin wasn't merely a singer and songwriter -- she was a beacon of ...

Peggy Caserta, whose candid revelations about her romantic relationship with rock star Janis Joplin were revealed in a groundbreaking if often sordid 1973 tell-all book that she later disavowed as ...