WHMN Radio: Rockin’ 101 Interview - Lita Ford (ab 0:02:01) auf YouTubeIn: Loudwire, 2015. Lita Ford comments on Jackie Fox’ rape allegation against Kim Fowley. In: Blabbermouth.net vom 23. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „I got a phone call from a journalist who just started screaming at me about The Runaways and I had no idea what he was talking about. I had’t read the tabloids and I didn’t know what was going on. […] But I do know that Jackie's not a liar, and if she says that somebody was watching her, and if she says that this happened, then I believe her; I do. […] I wasn’t there, and no one told me about it. This is the first I’ve heard of it.“
Maureen Herman: The Jackie Fox rape disclosure shows we still have a lot to learn. In: Boing Boing vom 13. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „I was shocked that there was any question about Jackie Fox’s story. Her rape happened in front a roomful of people, including two of her bandmates, Cherie Currie and Joan Jett. In the course of the article’s investigation and Fox’s disclosure, many bystanders have come forward, affirming what they saw and who was present that night in 1975.“
Maureen Herman: The Jackie Fox rape disclosure shows we still have a lot to learn. In: Boing Boing vom 13. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „All of us in the Runaways have always been aware of this ugly event. I don't see this as a "witch hunt", or a "criminal accusation" or a "blame game" – this is one rape victim's personal story of how she is beginning to come to terms with what happened to her so many years ago, while also trying to let the others, who were innocent bystanders, know that she has never held them responsible in any way. I encourage my former band mates to exercise compassion and understanding here and to not shift the paradigm and spin this any other way.“
Dave Thompson: Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Backbeat Books, 2011, ISBN 1-61713-077-X, S. 40. Originalzitat: „Jackie was the girl next door I needed, to balance out big-titted Lita, tomboy Joan and surf girl Sandy. It meant that guys that’d be afraid of these she-creatures could get that stewardess/nurse thing going.“
Dave Thompson: Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Backbeat Books, 2011, ISBN 1-61713-077-X, S. 40ff. Originalzitat: „‚I went down there and learned about 10 songs in half an hour, Kim went around and said, do you want her in the band, Joan and Sandy said yes, Lita said no.‘ It was Cherie that talked Lita Ford around. Like her bandmates, she was impatient simply to get the group up and running. Besides, ‚I really didn't give damn who we got in the band and she turned out to be a real gem to add to the Runaways, because she had a quality about her that was very different. She was into the Frederick’s of Hollywood garb that she wore all the time, the guys went crazy for that.‘“
Dave Thompson: Bad Reputation: The Unauthorized Biography of Joan Jett. Backbeat Books, 2011, ISBN 1-61713-077-X, S. 49. Originalzitat: „[…] the band members’ parents had been assured […] a tutor would be provided, chaperones, everything a worried pa and ma would could desire for their little girl far from home. In fact, they had none of these. ‚We were completely unsupervised‘, Fox continued. ‚We were living like runaways.‘“
Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways. Hachette UK, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82156-7, S. 143. Originalzitat: “Fowley performed oral sex on a very inebriated young woman and masturbated her with the handle of a hair brush. [...] Marcie, as she dubs the woman, was encouraging him.”
Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways. Hachette UK, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82156-7, S. 145. Originalzitat: „Jackie does say that she was not always around Fowley and the other band members. ‚I suspect a lot of things happened I don’t know about‘, she says. ‚There was this world of things, especially where Kim was involved, that no one talked about. We just pretended this stuff wasn’t happening.‘“
Evelyn McDonnell: Queens of Noise: The Real Story of The Runaways. Hachette UK, 2013, ISBN 0-306-82156-7, S. 143. Originalzitat: „Fowley always denied any sexual impropriety with members of The Runaways, including in a 2013 band biography: ‘They can talk about it until the cows come home but, in my mind, I didn’t make love to anybody in The Runaways nor did they make love to me.’“
Jason Cherkis: The lost Girls. In: The Huffington Post vom 8. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „She was smarter and bolder than the other teenagers, constantly doing things girls were told they shouldn’t. She attended summer school just to take shop. She learned power chords on her Stratocaster. […] [She was spotted] at the freeway on-ramp, her 6-foot-10-inch custom fiberglass swallowtail board under one arm and her thumb out.“
Jason Cherkis: The lost Girls. In: The Huffington Post vom 8. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „The mistrust between Jackie and everyone else associated with the Runaways made her quick-tempered and guarded. On long car rides between tour dates, Jackie refused to sleep, fearing that their driver would pass out. She made sure to stay sober on tour and complained when their manager, Scott Anderson, spent food money on drugs for the band. At a stop in Cleveland, Jackie vented to her family in a letter home: ‚I’m not at all sure I will last thru this tour what with the screaming, yelling & stupidity.‘“
Jason Cherkis: The lost Girls. In: The Huffington Post vom 8. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „The others — especially Ford — thought of Jackie as a charity case they were forced to hire, someone whose bass skills didn’t compensate for all the whining she did. […] She thought the band deserved better. One time, she says she went so far as to try to depose Fowley. She spent her own money to fly to New York, where she recruited Kiss’ manager to take over and Aerosmith’s producer to work on their next album. The coup attempt elicited nothing more than a shrug from the other girls. ‚What got to me was the band’s apathy toward everything,‘ she says. ‚You couldn’t get them interested in their own well-being.‘“
Freunde von Fuchs kamen auf der Party an und waren verwundert über ihren Zustand. Sie kannten Fuchs bereits seit einem Jahr und hatten sie nie berauscht erlebt, sie habe sich immer gut unter Kontrolle gehabt. Jason Cherkis: The lost Girls. In: The Huffington Post vom 8. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: “When Helen Roessler and Trudie Arguelles, two of Jackie’s friends from the Sunset music scene, showed up, they couldn’t believe the state she was in. They had known her for a year and never once had they seen her intoxicated. ‘It didn’t seem OK,’ Roessler says. ‘Jackie was always really in control.’”
Auch Cherie Currie hatte Jackie Fuchs attestiert, keine Drogen zu nehmen. Cherie Currie, Neal Shusterman: Neon Angel: The Cherie Currie Story. Price Stern Sloan, 1989, ISBN 0-8431-2348-6, S. 68. Originalzitat: „Jackie’s the real thinker of the group. […] She takes care of her brains the way the rest of us take care of our hair, and it only figures that she doesn’t do a single drug, ever.“
Jason Cherkis: The lost Girls. In: The Huffington Post vom 8. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „When a roadie checked to see if she was OK, Fowley asked him if he was interested in having sex with her. ‚She doesn’t mind‘, Fowley said. ‚Do you?‘“ […] „The roadie declined Fowley’s offer, and soon after, Jackie says she started to slip in and out of consciousness.“ […] „Fowley invited other guys to have sex with Jackie before removing his own pants and climbing on top of her. ‘Kim’s f*cking someone!’ a voice shouted from the door of the motel room to the partygoers outside, calling them in to watch. Arguelles returned to the room to see if this was all a big joke. On the bed, Fowley played to the crowd, gnashing his teeth and growling like a dog as he raped Jackie. He got up at one point to strut around the room before returning to Jackie’s body.“ […] „‚I remember opening my eyes, Kim Fowley was raping me, and there were people watching me‘, Jackie says. She looked out from the bed and noticed Currie and Jett staring at her. She says this was her last memory of the night.“
Jason Cherkis: The lost Girls. In: The Huffington Post vom 8. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „She recalls that Jett and Currie were sitting off to the side of the room for part of the time, snickering. ‚I didn’t know what to do,‘ she says. ‚Like what was I going to do? Go outside and drive and find a pay phone and call the police? I didn’t want to call the police on anyone, but at the same time I knew what was happening was wrong.‘ Krome was 14.“
Jason Cherkis: The lost Girls. In: The Huffington Post vom 8. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „Jackie showed up at the next band practice some days later, not ready to stop being a Runaway. Although she was nervous about how her bandmates would treat her, she at least expected them to acknowledge that something bad had happened. But the girls hardly registered her presence. They just plugged in and started running through their songs. That was the day, Jackie says, ‚the elephant joined the band‘. Jackie took her bandmates’ silence to mean that she should keep quiet, too. ‚I didn’t know if anybody would have backed me‘, she says. ‚I knew I would be treated horribly by the police — that I was going to be the one that ended up on trial more than Kim. I carried this sense of shame and of thinking it was somehow my fault for decades.‘“
Marie Lodi: Joan Jett and Cherie Currie Respond to Jackie Fox’s Rape Allegations. In: jezebel.com vom 15. Dezember 2015. Originalzitat: „Anyone who truly knows me understands that if I was aware of a friend or bandmate being violated, I would not stand by while it happened. For a group of young teenagers thrust into 70s rock stardom there were relationships that were bizarre, but I was not aware of this incident. Obviously Jackie’s story is extremely upsetting and although we haven’t spoken in decades, I wish her peace and healing.“
Randall Roberts: Former Runaways members react to Kim Fowley rape allegations. In: Los Angeles Times vom 14. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: “If I am disappointed in one thing, it is that the story has become about who knew what when and who did or didn’t do what. That isn’t the story at all. It would be nice if everyone who was there the night I was raped could talk about how it has affected them over the years. But if they don’t want to talk it about, I respect that. It’s taken me years to talk about it without shame. I can only imagine what it must have been like to have watched it happen. […] My rape was traumatic for everyone, not just me, and everyone deals with trauma in their own way and time”, wrote Fuchs […]. “It took exceptional courage for many of the witnesses to talk frankly about how they felt.”
Amy Phillips: The Runaways’ Cherie Currie Responds to Jackie Fox Rape Allegation Against Kim Fowley. In: Pitchfork Media vom 12. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „I have been accused of a crime. Of looking into the dead yet pleading eyes of a girl, unable to move while she was brutally raped and doing nothing. I have never been one to deny my mistakes in life and I wouldn’t start now. If I were guilty, I would admit it. There are so many excuses I could make being only one month into my sixteenth year at the time that people would understand but I am innocent. When I return from Sweden I will seek a qualified polygraph examiner to put to rest any and all allegations. I will make public the questions, answers and results of that test. I am a proud person but for this, I may need to open a Fund Me account since I do not know how much this will cost. I am not a rich person but a carver. I wouldn't ask for funding for my new album because I am proud. I will prove I am telling the truth. I will not allow anyone to throw me under the bus and accuse me of such a foul act. I will fight for myself. It is the only thing I can do and I’m glad to do it.“
Phoebe Reilly: Sex, Rock & Rape: Cherie Currie’s Untold Runaways Story. The singer of the groundbreaking all-girl group tells SPIN.com about the dark side of life as a teen rocker. In: Spin vom 3. März 2010. Originalzitat: „Interviewer: ‚What did you include in this new version of the book that you couldn’t in the original?‘ Currie: ‚I named names. For example, the story where [Runaways manager/producer] Kim Fowley held a sex education class for us was a little more than the publishers could stomach at the time.‘ Interviewer: ‚In that scene, Kim has sex with a woman in front of the band in order to, as you recall, “teach you dogs how to f*ck.” You seem to remember him as a nasty guy but Joan Jett calls him a “close friend”. Does it bother you that she likes him?‘ Currie: ‚No. It’s like battered-wife syndrome. Some women love the abusive men they’re with and that’s kind of the way I was with Kim. I really wanted his approval.‘“
Tracy Sirotti: Interview with Jackie Fox. In: tripod.com vom 12. März 1998. Originalzitat: „I left the band at the end of our Japanese tour in June 1977 when my 1965 Gibson Thunderbird bass (a very rare, beautiful bass even in 1977) broke and I realized it hadn’t been insured and that nobody was taking care of us. I was already at that point sick of all the fighting so it didn’t take that much to push me over the edge. I was only 17 at the time!!“
Tracy Sirotti: Interview with Jackie Fox. In: tripod.com vom 12. März 1998. Originalzitat: „It [attempting suicide] never happened. I cut my arm on a broken bottle and shortly after that happened I quit. I was upset at leaving the band and people made the wrong assumption. That rumor has lasted 20 years, probably because it’s a lot more interesting than the truth.“
How the Runaways’ Debut Overcame Everything to Find Greatness. In: ultimateclassicrock.com Originalzitat: [Jackie Fox:] „I think Kim just wasn’t sure that he’d be able to get something out of me because I was so new, and he wasn’t willing to take the chance because it was not a big recording budget, and hey — every cent he spent was money he didn’t get to keep. […] I don’t think Kim cared about making the best possible record.“
Jackie Fuchs: The Truth Shall Set You Free. (Memento vom 27. November 2015 im Internet Archive) Ursprünglich veröffentlicht in: jackiefox.com vom 20. Oktober 2000. Originalzitat: „Cherie claims that the rest of the band sat around and watched this, and that I, after seeing it, asked the rest of the band if they had any more hamburgers because I was still hungry.“
Jackie Fuchs: The Truth Shall Set You Free. (Memento vom 27. November 2015 im Internet Archive) Ursprünglich veröffentlicht in: jackiefox.com vom 20. Oktober 2000. Originalzitat: „The event described in Cherie's book never happened. […] I have been told that Cherie’s response to my lawyer’s letter was not to remove me from the chapter as I requested, but to change the chapter so that the teenaged girl is now me. […] Were our managers abusive and did they take advantage of us? Absolutely. I've written accounts in here of verbal and emotional abuse and financial mismanagement, all of which happened. Did they ever drug us or force anyone to have sex with them? Not that I ever saw.“
Jackie Fuchs: The Truth Shall Set You Free. (Memento vom 27. November 2015 im Internet Archive) Ursprünglich veröffentlicht in: jackiefox.com vom 20. Oktober 2000. Originalzitat: „Unfortunately, it’s been almost 25 years since the Runaways were a band and even under the best of circumstances memory is a funny thing.“
Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways (ab 0:58:05) auf YouTube, 2004, Regie Victory Tischler-Blue. Originalzitat: „Jackie tried to kill herself. [laughing] No no no no no. […] Jackie was a hypochondriac. And I love you Jackie, but you were a f*cking hypochondriac.“
Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways (ab 1:05:09) auf YouTube, 2004, Regie Victory Tischler-Blue. Originalzitat: „[…] I called my Mum and said: ‚Get me out of here.‘ She said: ‚You get on the next plane.‘ And this is how bad it had gotten: when I split, I had no money, because we were always kept very broke, and the Japanese promoter handed me a bus ticket to the airport. I started crying because there was nobody even let with me to the airport, I got sat on a bus alone.“
Cherie Currie - Post Runaways Interviews (ab 0:02:46) auf YouTube, Anfang/Mitte der 1980er Jahre. Originalzitat: „Interviewer: ‚After you joined The Runaways, you were subjected to kind of a sex show […]?‘ Currie: ‚A person in authority had all the band members sitting in a hotel room we were [really] in San Diego doing a show and forced us to watch him engage in Sex with a young girl Now I think that he felt that he was trying to break us into the rock 'n' roll…‘ Interviewer: ‚…the reality of the road…‘ Currie: ‚…exactly, right.‘ Interviewer: ‚How did you feel?‘ Currie: I wanted to leave and I got up and he was like: Down, dog! […] Interviewer: Were you frightened or did you pretend that your were really cool? Currie: ‚I pretended I was cool, but I was frightened, I did finally just get up and leave […].‘“
Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways (ab 0:38:56) auf YouTube, 2004, Regie Victory Tischler-Blue. Originalzitat:Currie: “This is what I like to call ‚Kim Fowley’s sex education class‘. We were playing some place in Whittier, actually we were opening for The Tubes, and had gotten one hotel room, of course for all of us to change, some little sleazy hotel room, and we were all there and there was this twin bed pushed up against the wall and he had us all sit down and he goes ‚I am going to teach you all the right way to f*ck.‘”
Edgeplay: A film about The Runaways (ab 0:42:25) auf YouTube, 2004, Regie Victory Tischler-Blue. Originalzitat:West: „[Fowley abused some of the band members verbally and emotionally.] There was sexual abuse, possibly. Was there sexual abuse to the band by Kim Fowley? I am not the person to ask.“
WHMN Radio: Rockin’ 101 Interview - Lita Ford (ab 0:02:01) auf YouTubeIn: Loudwire, 2015. Lita Ford comments on Jackie Fox’ rape allegation against Kim Fowley. In: Blabbermouth.net vom 23. Juli 2015. Originalzitat: „I got a phone call from a journalist who just started screaming at me about The Runaways and I had no idea what he was talking about. I had’t read the tabloids and I didn’t know what was going on. […] But I do know that Jackie's not a liar, and if she says that somebody was watching her, and if she says that this happened, then I believe her; I do. […] I wasn’t there, and no one told me about it. This is the first I’ve heard of it.“
