
(In her Playmate Fact Sheet, she lists “My boyfriend, Todd Rundgren” under “Favorite Performer.”) While posing in Playboy probably didn’t help her recording career any, it did have the effect of elevating her status among the rock elite-as she said, after “I did Playboy. She didn’t need Playboy to date Rundgren, whom she’d already been seeing for a couple of years. One of the major turning points in Buell’s life was becoming the Playboy Playmate of the Month in November 1974.

Liv Tyler herself didn’t know the truth until she was nine years old. Although Todd Rundgren and Buell were breaking up around around the time of Liv Tyler’s birth, Rundgren committed to the deception and for years did not divulge that he wasn’t Liv Tyler’s biological father. Famously, she gave birth to Steven Tyler’s daughter but knowingly named her with the “wrong” name Liv Rundgren to shield her from Tyler’s addiction problems. During the 1970s she also had romantic involvements with Mick Jagger, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Elvis Costello, and Jimmy Page. Her first relationship with a rock star came when she dated Paul Cowsill of the Cowsills she was 16 at the time. Patti never made the Playboy scene, but she was a CREEM Dream at some point in the late 70sīebe Buell was one of the most famous rock and roll girlfriends of the 1970s (she doesn’t like the term groupie, calling Pamela Des Barres’ scene in L.A.
