Who was Nancy Spungen?

Question

-and why was she significant, then?

-(and how come she's so darned interesting now? :)

Answer 1

Sid vicious's gf who he killed

Answer 2

she was the girlfriend of Sid Vicious, bassist of the s*x Pistols. As a child, she was hyperactive and incredibly violent. She attempted suicide several times. She dated Sid Vicious for 21 months, all though which they were both addicted to herion. She was known for public displays of drug induced verbal abuse and violent acts. She was murdered in 1978 by Sid.

Answer 3

She was an American groupie who latched onto Sid Vicious while he was bumming aimlessly around London. The other s*x Pistols and the group's management did all they could to get rid of her but they couldn't. Nancy herself grew up in a wealthy family in Pennsylvania but she was troubled from day one. She had been born a blue baby and had a transfusion to stabilize her central nervous system. Then she grew up as a hyperactive child who attempted suicide several times. The s*x Pistols became one of the most controversial groups of the mid-1970s but fell apart during a US tour in early 1978. After that, it all all downhill for Nancy and Sid. In October of that year, she and Sid were living in the Chelsea Hotel in New York City. One night, while on an all-night drug binge with him, he stabbed her in the stomach. She crawled up under the bathroom sink and died. Since he had been heavily on drugs at the time, he had no memory of what happened. He was arrested and taken to Riker's Island. In February 1979, he was released on bail and promptly overdosed on heroin, which was supplied by his mother due to her fears that if she didn't get it for him, someone else would and it would be of questionable quality. Since he had been forced to detoxify while in prison, the dose was too much for him and he died. The case remains unofficially unsolved. Nancy used to say that she would never live to the age of 21 and she would go out in a blaze of glory. It was true that she didn't live to that age but dying from a stab wound while high on drugs wasn't exactly a blaze of glory.