Owen Vanessa Elliot: Facts about Cass Elliot’s daughter

Owen Vanessa Elliot

Owen Vanessa Elliot is the daughter of Cass Elliot. Owen Vanessa Elliot’s mother Cass was an American singer, actress, and member of the singing group The Mamas & the Papas. After the group broke up, Elliot released five solo albums. In 1998, she was posthumously inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame for her work with The Mamas & the Papas.

Owen Vanessa Elliot: Bio Summary

Full Name Owen Vanessa Elliot
Famous asSinger and Daughter of Cass Elliot
Age55 years old as of 2022
Date of BirthApril 26, 1967
Place of BirthNorthampton, Massachusetts, United States
Zodiac signTaurus
NationalityAmerican
EthnicityCaucasian
Siblingsnone
ParentsMother- Cass Elliot, Father- Charles Wayne Day

Owen Vanessa Elliot is the daughter of Cass Elliot and Charles Watne Day. She was born on April 26 1967 in Northampton, Massachusetts, United States of America. As of 2022, she is 65 years old. Just like her mother Owen Venessa is a singer and has toured with Beach Boys member Al Jardine.

Her father Charles Watne Day also known as Bing Day and Chuck Day, was an American guitarist and baritone bluesman from the South Side of Chicago. Owen Venessa is the only child of her parents.

Cass Elliot’s daughter, Owen Vanessa Elliot lives in L.A. with her record producer husband Jack Kugell and their kids Zoe, 19, and Noah, 16.

“I think she was the most famous because she was the most identifiable,” her daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell, 55, confided to NextTribe in a interview.

Cass Elliot’s daughter Owen Vanessa Elliot-Kugell has never talked much about her mother before, but she feels it’s “my mom’s time” now. She sees her mother Cass Elliot as the star woman for being a female pop superstar who was, frankly, fat. “Without my mom, there might not be an Adele—or, in comedy, Aidy Bryant on Saturday Night Live,” Owen tells NextTribe.

Cass was a proud single-mommy-by-choice and a working mother who supported her child alone. “She was a one-woman triumph against adversity; she was ahead of her time; women now are finally doing what she did 50 years ago,” says Cass Daughter Owen Vanessa in the same interview with Nexttribe. “I look back on her and realize that, just by example, she taught me, and others, not to accept it when someone says you can’t do something.”

At 25, Owen Vanessa Elliot’s mother knew she wanted to be a solo mother- “She wanted me more than anything else in the world—she told people that,” Owen says told Nexttribe. “I was conceived in the summer of 1966.” “Even the name she chose for me underscored her desire for a creature to love. She named me Owen because I was her ‘own.’ She called me Owenski.”

Cass managed to keep hidden not just her pregnancy (ironically, her weight aided in this regard), but also the identity of the father of her child—then and for decades—despite the fact that she was a musical star in a new era of music media gossip.

Owen Vanessa Elliot’s mother Cass was married twice, the first time in 1963 to James Hendricks, her group mate in the Big 3 and the Mugwumps. It was a platonic arrangement to assist him in avoiding being drafted during the Vietnam War; the marriage was never consummated and was annulled in 1968.In 1971, Elliot married journalist Donald von Wiedenman, heir to a Bavarian barony. Their marriage ended in divorce after a few months.

Talking to next tribe one could quickly recognize that Owen Vanessa Elliot really adores the strength of her mother. “My mother was The Little Engine That Could,” Owen says. “Weight shaming was something she dealt with all her life. She was constantly insulted and hurt by people calling or thinking her fat. But she never talked about her pain, and when she performed, she hid that pain.

But I know—I could tell—that it bothered her. As a child she was teased as a fatty. Her weight was something she bore the scars of for the rest of her life, be it failed auditions for Broadway shows or lonely nights after The Mamas and The Papas’ performances at Carnegie Hall or the Hollywood Bowl, coming home alone when everyone else had a partner.”

Owen Vanessa Elliot’s mother, Cass fell on the set of Johnny Carson‘s The Tonight Show in April 1974, just before she was to go on, as a result of her crash dieting and busy schedule. She was admitted to the hospital and hoped that her treatment would not jeopardize her career.

Owen Vanessa Elliot’s mother Cass, age 32, died in her sleep at the London flat where she was staying after her appearance at London Palladium. According to forensic pathologist Keith Simpson, who conducted her autopsy, her death was due to heart failure. “There was left-sided heart failure,” he wrote, “she had a heart attack which developed rapidly.” A drug screen that was part of the forensic autopsy revealed there were no drugs in her system. Cass died in Flat 12, 9 Curzon Place (later Curzon Square), Shepherd Market, Mayfair, London.

Before she died, she wrote a rapturous letter to her seven-year-old daughter ( Owen Vanessa Elliot), telling her how much she missed her, and then she called Michelle Phillips in L.A. to share the triumph with the person to whom she had given so much confidence.

“I remember sitting at my grandmother’s dining room table,” Owen Vanessa revealed, “and her telling me, ‘Your mother’s not coming home.’ I remember just standing up and leaving the table and not understanding what had happened. I have had a lot of cognitive behavioral therapy over the years, and I know how denial protects a child.” The plan was for Owen to live with Cass’s younger sister, Leah, who was married at the time to James Taylor’s and Joni Mitchell’s drummer, Russ Kunkel, and had a son, Nathaniel, age three.

“It was after my mom’s funeral”—at Los Angeles’s Mt. Sinai Memorial Park, where many stars are buried—“that it hit me, dramatically. I was being asked who I wanted to ride home with, my grandmother or my aunt and uncle. It struck me: I’d better get used to my new life. I don’t have my mother any more. It was a hugely defining, hugely sad moment of realization.”

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Kennedy Gedzah is a graduate of Kwame Nkrumah University of Science and Technology-KNUST (2018). He is the Owner and has been the lead content creator at Dicytrends.com since 2020. His Passion for providing people with credible and well-researched information on the internet led him to build Dicytrends.com. With more than 5 years of experience in blogging and writing, he has amassed sufficient knowledge on various topics, including biographies, fashion and lifestyles, Entertainment, and more. You can contact him via email: Kgedzah@gmail.com

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