May 29, 2019
Los Angeles
“There is much more incest out there than people are aware of. It’s hidden and it destroys lives. I look at Mackenzie and realize I was fortunate: I was raped only one time by my father.”
Tamar Hodel
Excerpt from 2009 Vanity Fair article by Sheila Weller
“Michelle Phillips and Friends Speak Out about Mackenzie’s Incest Allegations”
A friend recently sent me a Vanity Fair article by Shelia Weller highlighting Mackenzie Phillips 2009 disclosure of being an incest victim of her father, John Phillips, famed songwriter, and singer for the Mamas and the Papas.
The Tamar Hodel quote, once again confirms, in her own words, that Tamar only had intercourse with her father on one occasion and court documents establish that date as being, July 1, 1949, which resulted in an abortion in September 1949. As recently established by DNA analysis, Fauna Hodel was not the biological daughter of George Hodel. According to Tamar, Fauna’s father was “A White Italian American who plied her with alcohol and raped her in November, 1950”, more than a full year after she had obtained the abortion in Los Angeles.
Mamas and Papas Ed Sullivan Show 1967
John Phillips and daughter Mackenzie
Mackenzie Phillips 2008
See Shelia Weller’s Vanity Fair full article below:
Michelle Phillips and Friends Speak Out about Mackenzie
THE MICHELLE PHILLIPS/TAMAR HODEL FRIENDSHIP
Tamar Hodel Michelle Phillips
Here are some excerpts from my book, Black Dahlia Avenger (Arcade 2003) that talk about the Tamar/Michelle relationship in Michelle’s own words.
BDA Chapter 15 page 176:
Maybe it was my own design and not simply the passage of time that kept the true story of Tamar and the family scandal a dark mystery to me for many years. Even in my adult mind, Tamar was the image of the adolescent temptress Lolita. She would go on to blaze a trail from the beat generation of the middle 1950s to the street generation of the late ’60s, bouncing off poets, folk singers, druggies, and hippies.
Tamar was described by singer Michelle Phillips in her book California Dreaming’: The True Story of the Mamas and the Papas as her “very best friend, who got me interested in folk music, or at least into folk music people.” Michelle’s description of Tamar is a snapshot of the young girl who, a decade earlier, unwittingly had come within a hair of playing a critical role in the Black Dahlia investigation. Phillips writes:
So, off we went to Tamar’s. As soon as I set eyes on her, I thought she was the most fabulous, glamorous girl I had ever met. She had a wonderful lavender-colored room, with lavender pillows and curtains, lavender lead-glass ashtrays, all of that. I thought it was just great. She had just acquired a new pink and lavender Rambler, buying it on time.
She hung out with a very hip Bohemian crowd—Josh White, Dick Gregory, Odetta, Bud and Travis. Tamar was incredible. She gave me my first fake ID, my first amphetamines (“uppers” to help me stay awake in class after late nights). This was a girl after my own heart, and we became very close . . . and now she was my idol.
I recommend you check out Michelle Phillips autobiography, California Dreamin’: The True Story of the Mamas and The Papas (Warner Books 1986). It contains a lot more information on Tamar and Michelle life together in San Francisco. Tamar and Michelle remained life-long friends and Michelle was Godmother to Tamar’s children.
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