#1990s Lee

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RINGO STARR’S DAUGHTER LEE

1991, November 2nd  - HELLO! Magazine

Spotlight on the children of the stars

RINGO STARR’S DAUGHTER LEE

Sixties Fashion – not The Beatles – is what this young tycoon is into

Just look at Ringo Starr’s little girl now!

The ex-Beatle’s daughter, Lee Starkey, now 21 (“People look at me and still think I’m 13”), has become Hollywood’s latest fashion tycoon, selling dazzling sequined hot pants, microscopic mini skirts and psychedelic kaftans like hot-cakes from her very own boutique, slap in the middle of Los Angeles' trendiest district, Melrose Avenue.

“Daddy didn’t help at all with money,” says Lee, giving a delighted spin as she proudly models a selection of her favourite gear, all designed by herself and her partner, Christian Paris, 30.

“Daddy has given me plenty of moral support though – he brought all his friends to our grand opening. Sometimes he just walks in unexpectedly and drags people in off the street to see our clothes!

“He’s thrilled that at last I’ve found something I love to do.”

Lee Starkey was five when her mother Maureen and famous father Ringo divorced in 1975. And although her parents have since remarried (her mother to Hard Rock Cafe founder Isaac Tigrett, and Ringo to actress Barbara Bach) the extended family are all fast friends.

And when their little girl opened her very own boutique in Hollywood, both parents turned up along with brothers Zak, 25, and Jason, 23, to cheer her on.

“I’m by no means an expert on the Beatles,” admits Lee with a pretty smile. “If I want to know something about the Beatles, I simply ask my dad. But what I am drawn to is the fashions of the Sixties. That’s where I get my inspiration. I’ve tried to bring the vibrancy and colour and freedom of those fashions into the Nineties.”

And Lee’s splashily painted shop, dubbed Planet Alice, is doing a roaring trade, proving her ideas have hit the jackpot.

Lee tried acting, make-up school and even the drums before she finally hooked up with partner Christian Paris of whom she says: “We’re very fond of each other, but it’s just platonic.”

Christian already owned a Planet Alice store in London’s Portobello Road, a business he operated along with the London disco Alice in Wonderland.

He still owns his disco, but under Lee’s urging he’s now relocated his clothing boutique to Hollywood.

“We’ve only been open a month, but already I can see Lee’s idea was sound – sales are blistering,” says Christian happily, as he rings up a $1,000 sale to a group of visiting Miami Latinos who were dressed in clothes bought at Planet Alice only the previous day.

“Lee has so much energy, such wonderful ideas. And when she starts modelling like today – the cash register fairly clangs!”

REPORT: RODERICK BARRAND

PHOTOS: MARTA VANEGAS FOR KEYSTONE-NEMES.

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Brandon Lee in The Crow (1994)

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Sheryl Lee as Laura Palmer Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) dir. David Lynch

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) dir. David Lynch

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Stephen King's IT (1990)

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The Crow concept art by Darren Gilford and Peter Pound (c. 1992)

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David Lynch & Sheryl Lee, Twin Peaks, 1990

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IT (1990) dir. Tommy Lee Wallace

[littlequeenies]

Why Do We Love...

Lee Starkey

The first time we knew about Lee Starkey was at Sentimentalist's "Little Willow" website. In this great (and so much missed) Mauren fansite, there was a page for her children, and, of course, Lee was there!

[Lee at her dad's "Time Takes Time" album release party in 1992. Our scan]

We were teenagers and this photo was the first we saw of Lee's (a very tiny version of it). She had this gothic/grunge/neo-hippy/rocker style that we loved! Her marble skin, her blue eyes, the long brown hair and the dark clothes combined with the chokers, pendants and rings was all that I loved then! (still do haha) We were just little girls in the 1990s and I wanted to be like this when grown up.

[Lee designing in 1991, our scan]

[In 1989 with her older brothers Zak and Jason, at their mother Maureen's wedding to second husband Isaac Tigrett in Monaco]

[Lee in 1992 with her older brothers and Mary McCartney, daughter of Beatle Paul]

Besides her style and beauty, soon we found out that se was the co-owner of a 1960s style fashion boutique in Los Angeles called "Planet Alice", which was very cool; and also that sadly she had a brain tumour when she was only 25, one year after loosing her mother.

[Lee and her mum Maureen at the opening of Planet Alice in 1991, retouched by Lynn from Something About the Beatlegirls]

[Lee in 1992 with Stella, younger sister of Mary, and Maureen. She is wearing a dress she sold at her boutique]

[Pictured in 1996 after her brain tumour was healed is Lee with her step-mother Barbara Bach, her brother Zak, their father Ringo, their half-sister Augusta, and Zak's daughter Tatia Jayne]

This was around the time George Harrison died and Lee had her second brain tumour herself, so we were sad and worried about her, but luckily she survived.

As with other muses, we built a website for her and a yahoo group, getting many beautiful and rare photos of her, specially from the 1980s and 1990s, our "favourite" Lee's eras.

[Lee with her purple hair in 1989 with dad Ringo]

Thanks to all these websites, yahoo groups, facebook pages and now here, we can share our love for Lee and made lifetime friends who share their pictures and information with all of us.

We know Lee is a very private person, so everytime there is a new (or old!) picture of her we are thrilled, specially from the time she toured with her dad and was her stylist, or when she modelled for and worked in her Planet Alice shop!

[1991 - Lee inside her Planet Alice shop in Los Angeles, modelling the designs she sells. Our scan]

We wish her shop would have been successful, we think today it would be, but hopefully we can collect pictures of back then, same as we collect her most recent ones. She had triplets and is living a healthy live, just as she deserves!

[Lee in 2016 with her partner, musician Jay Mehler, and their triplets Smokey, Jakamo and Ruby Tiger]

Today, for her 53rd birthday, we wanted to share with all of you, dear followers, how we knew about Lee and what made us love her.

Here we share:

OUR BIOGRAPHY OF HER, WITH LINKS TO AMAZING SITES

HER POSTS IN OUR BLOG

OUR PHOTO COLLECTION HOSTED AT GOOGLE PHOTOS — 1970s — 1980s — 1990s — 1990s Planet Alice — 2000s — 2020s (all the photos have been collected from the net, photographers, details, websites etc are credited when known)

HAPPY BIRTHDAY DEAR HIPPY GOTH CHICK!

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blue shades of late 90s - early 2000s music.

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THE CROW (1994) dir. Alex Proyas

People once believed that when someone dies, a crow carries their soul to the land of the dead. But sometimes, something so bad happens that a terrible sadness is carried with it and the soul can't rest. Then sometimes, just sometimes, the crow can bring that soul back to put the wrong things right.

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Brandon Lee in The Crow (1994)

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Twin Peaks: Fire Walk with Me (1992) dir. David Lynch Nightmare Alley (1947) dir. Edmund Goulding