Editing Cass Elliot (section)

==Personal life==
=== Marriages and family ===
[[File:Mama Cass in 1969.jpg|thumb|upright|Elliot in 1969]]
Elliot was married twice, the first time in 1963 to [[Jim Hendricks (musician)|Jim Hendricks]], her groupmate in the Big 3 and the Mugwumps. It was a marriage of convenience to assist him in avoiding being drafted during the Vietnam War;<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.hotshotdigital.com/tribute/MamaCass.html 
|title=Mama Cass |website=Hotshotdigital.com |access-date=December 19, 2017}}</ref> the marriage was never consummated and was annulled in 1968.<ref>{{Cite web |url=http://www.laurelcanyonthebook.com/?cat=50 |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20080221080850/http://www.laurelcanyonthebook.com/?cat=50 |url-status=dead |title=Meet the Mugwumps |archive-date=February 21, 2008 |access-date=June 11, 2021}}</ref> In 1971, Elliot married journalist Donald von Wiedenman, heir to a Bavarian barony.<ref>{{cite magazine |url=http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903034,00.html |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070428134946/http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,903034,00.html |url-status=dead |archive-date=April 28, 2007 |title=Milestones, Jul. 12, 1971 |date=July 12, 1971 |magazine=Time}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.casselliot.com/images.htm| website=The Official Cass Elliot Website |date=December 9, 2006 |title=The Solo Years - The Seventies |format=Photo: Cass and her second husband Baron Donald von Wiedenman, 1971}}</ref> Their marriage ended in divorce after a few months.

Elliot gave birth to a daughter, Owen Vanessa Elliot-Kugell,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://nexttribe.com/cass-elliots-daughter/ |title=Cass Elliot's Daughter Talks About the Star's Pain and Bravery |website=nexttribe.com/ |access-date=January 5, 2022}}</ref> on April 26, 1967. Elliot-Kugell also grew up to become a singer and toured with [[The Beach Boys|Beach Boys]] member [[Al Jardine]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.superseventies.com/faq_beachboys.html |title=Beach Boys FAQ |website=Superseventies.com |access-date=December 19, 2017}}</ref> Cass Elliot never publicly identified the father, but many years later, Michelle Phillips helped Elliot-Kugell locate her biological father,<ref>{{cite news |title=California Dreamgirl |url=http://www.vanityfair.com/culture/features/2007/12/phillips200712 |publisher=Vanity Fair |date=December 2007 |access-date=November 28, 2008}}</ref> [[Charles Wayne Day|Chuck Day]]. His paternity was not publicly revealed until his 2008 death.<ref>{{cite news |last=Liberatore |first=Paul |url=http://www.marinij.com/article/zz/20080312/NEWS/803129986 |title=Fairfax rocker Chuck Day, the 'soul of the music scene,' dies at 65 |work=Marin Independent Journal |date=March 12, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170224054154/http://www.marinij.com/article/zz/20080312/NEWS/803129986|archive-date=February 24, 2017 |access-date=May 6, 2019}}</ref> After Elliot's death, her younger sister, [[Leah Kunkel]] (then married to Los Angeles–based session drummer [[Russ Kunkel]]), was awarded custody of seven-year-old Owen and raised her<ref>{{cite web |last1=Trakin |first1=Roy |title='Dedicated to the One I Love': Cass Elliot's Daughter Gets Her 'Mama' a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame |url=https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/dedicated-one-love-cass-elliot-180000020.html |website=Yahoo |date=October 2, 2022 |access-date=October 2, 2022}}</ref> along with her own son, Nathaniel.

=== Drug use ===
[[David Crosby]] published a memoir in 1988 saying he used [[opiates]] and [[cocaine]] with her, preferring heroin in London because of its availability there.<ref name="auto">{{cite book |last=Crosby |first=David |title=Long Time Gone |publisher=Doubleday |year=1988 |pages=119–120}}</ref>

===1967 legal issue===
In 1967, while staying in London, Elliot was prosecuted for stealing bed linen from a hotel where she and her bandmates had stayed on an earlier visit. She denied responsibility, and the case was brought before the West London magistrates' court, where the charges against her were dismissed in the absence of any evidence. The Mamas & the Papas were forced to cancel their upcoming British concerts as a result of the incident, and the band broke up the next year.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1540140/Denny-Doherty.html |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220112/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/obituaries/1540140/Denny-Doherty.html |archive-date=January 12, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |title=Denny Doherty |date=January 22, 2007 |website=The Telegraph |access-date=June 17, 2018}}{{cbignore}}</ref> On a return visit to London, Elliot admitted to the audience at the [[London Palladium]] that she had taken two sheets, saying "I liked 'em so I took 'em". She said she had kept quiet because of the way she had been treated in police custody.<ref name="Fiegel2015">{{cite book |author=Eddi Fiegel |title=Dream a Little Dream of Me: The Life of 'Mama' Cass Elliot |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=72OkCgAAQBAJ&pg=PT210 |date=October 8, 2015 |publisher=Pan Macmillan |isbn=978-1-5098-2404-5 |pages=210–}}</ref>