Peggy Caserta, the lesbian creator of bell-bottom jeans and lover of Janis Joplin, has died at age 84

Author: Trudy Ring

Peggy Caserta, a lover of rock icon Janis Joplin, has died at age 84.Caserta met Joplin, her neighbor on Haight Street, in 1966. They greeted each other one morning, and that night Caserta went to see Joplin sing with her band, Big Brother and the Holding Company. The performance was “powerful and mind altering,” Caserta wrote in her second memoir, I Ran Into Some Trouble. notes. She leaves no immediate survivors.