JULY 12, 1968 – Micky Dolenz of The Monkees married Samantha Juste whom he’d met when working in the UK on the BBC TV show “Top Of The Pops” where she was the “disc girl” and whom he wrote some of The Monkees song “Randy Scouse Git” about. Dolenz’s stepfather, Dr. Robert Scott, officiated.
Dolenz and Juste hosted parties attended by musicians and a number of celebrities. Ringo Starr of the Beatles dubbed Juste “Earth Mother” for her having made him a chip butty (a buttered french-fry sandwich) and eggs when he arrived after a “rip-roaring all-nighter”. Their friend, the songwriter Harry Nilsson, invited Dolenz and Juste to travel with him to Ireland to lend credibility (in Dolenz’s words, “Samantha maybe … but me?”) when he met the parents of a woman he thought he might marry. Juste’s father, Leslie Slater, helped Dolenz construct a studio used by John Lennon, Brian Wilson and Alice Cooper.
Dolenz and Juste divorced in 1975, but remained close friends until her death following a stroke on February 5, 2014. The couple’s daughter Ami Dolenz (b. January 8, 1969) became an actress in the 1980s and 1990s.
JULY 12, 1968 – Micky Dolenz of The Monkees married Samantha Juste
