Editing Jimmy Page (section)

== Personal life ==

===Relationships===
During the 1960s Page was with American recording artist [[Jackie DeShannon]], who is cited as a possible inspiration for the Page composition and Led Zeppelin recording "Tangerine".{{sfn|Lewis|2012|p=44}}

French model Charlotte Martin was Page's partner from 1970 to about 1982 or 1983. Page called her "My Lady" and together they had a daughter, [[Scarlet Page]] (born in 1971), who is a photographer.

While touring with Led Zeppelin, Page's view on groupies was described as "the younger, the better," according to tour manager [[Richard Cole]].<ref>Cole, Richard, and Trubo, Richard (1992), ''Stairway to Heaven: Led Zeppelin Uncensored'', New York: HarperCollins, {{ISBN|0-06-018323-3}}
pg 77.</ref> For example, Page had a well-documented,<ref name="Williamson2007">{{cite book|author=Nigel Williamson|title=The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=hh6EUfXhU78C|date=2 August 2007|publisher=Rough Guides Limited |pages=253, 254 |isbn=978-1-84353-841-7}}</ref><ref name="Hammer">{{cite book |first=Stephen |last=Davis |date=1997 |orig-year=1985 |title=Hammer Of The Gods: The Led Zeppelin Saga |publisher=Boulevard Books |isbn=978-1-57297-306-0 |pages=[https://archive.org/details/hammerofgods00davi/page/171 171]-174 |url=https://archive.org/details/hammerofgods00davi |url-access=registration}}</ref> one-year-long relationship with "baby groupie" [[Lori Mattix]] (also known as Lori Maddox), beginning when she was 14 or 15 and while he was 28. In light of the [[Me Too movement]] four decades later, their relationship attracted renewed attention.<ref>{{cite magazine |first=Andy|last=Greene|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/music-lists/the-10-wildest-led-zeppelin-legends-fact-checked-153103/jimmy-page-dated-a-14-year-old-girl-while-he-was-in-led-zeppelin-153501/ |title=Jimmy Page Dated a 14-year-old Girl While He Was in Led Zeppelin |magazine=[[Rolling Stone]] |publisher=Wenner Media LLC| location=New York City|date=November 21, 2012 |access-date=9 January 2021}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Alan|last=Cross|url=https://globalnews.ca/news/4014316/music-industry-metoo-timesup-alan-cross/ |title=The music industry is hurtling towards its own #MeToo and #TimesUp reckonings: Alan Cross |website=[[Global News]] |publisher=[[Corus Entertainment]]|location=Vancouver, Canada|date=February 11, 2018|access-date=9 January 2021 }}</ref>

From 1986 to 1995, Page was married to Patricia Ecker, a model and waitress. They have a son, James Patrick Page (born April 1988).{{sfn|Salewicz|2018|p=469}} Page later married Jimena Gómez-Paratcha, whom he met in Brazil on the No Quarter tour.<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.abctrust.org.uk/whoweare.html|title=ABC Trust History: Who We Are|publisher=Abctrust.org.uk|access-date=1 January 2012|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120211234922/http://www.abctrust.org.uk/whoweare.html|archive-date=11 February 2012}}</ref> He adopted her oldest daughter Jana (born 1994) and they have two children together: Zofia Jade (born 1997) and Ashen Josan (born 1999).{{sfn|Case|2007|p=227}}{{sfn|Salewicz|2018|p=470}} Page and Gómez-Paratcha divorced in 2008.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.smh.com.au/lifestyle/jimmy-page-reflects-on-led-zeppelin-20140925-10fhsk.html|title= Jimmy Page reflects on Led Zeppelin|work=Sydney Morning Herald|date=27 September 2014}}</ref>

Page has been in a relationship with actress and poet [[Scarlett Sabet]], forty-five years his junior, since August 2014.<ref>{{cite web|url= https://www.tatler.com/article/jimmy-page-scarlett-sabet-interview-london-house-rolling-stones-song|title= As the Rolling Stones release their new hit Scarlet, the song's writer – Led Zeppelin's Jimmy Page – and his girlfriend Scarlett Sabet welcome Tatler to their Gothic castle|work=Tatler|last=Conway|first=Clare|date= 7 August 2020|publisher=Condé Nast}}</ref>

===Properties===
[[File:Boleskine_house.png|thumb|Boleskine House in 1912]]

In 1967, when Page was still with The Yardbirds, he purchased the Thames Boathouse on the River Thames in Pangbourne, Berkshire and resided there until 1973. The Boathouse was also the place where Page and Plant first officially got together in the summer of 1968 and Led Zeppelin was formed.<ref>Williamson, Nigel. ''The Rough Guide to Led Zeppelin'', Rough Guides, September 2007, p. 255.</ref>

In 1972, Page bought [[the Tower House]] from [[Richard Harris]]. It was the home that [[William Burges]] (1827–81) had designed for himself in London. "I had an interest going back to my teens in the pre-Raphaelite movement and the architecture of Burges", Page said. "What a wonderful world to discover." The reputation of Burges rests on his extravagant designs and his contribution to the Gothic revival in architecture in the nineteenth century.<ref>{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/wales/south_east/3730777.stm|title=Rock legend's pilgrimage to castle|access-date=17 February 2007|work=BBC News|date=20 May 2004}}</ref>

From 1980 to 2004 Page owned the Mill House, Mill Lane, Windsor, which was formerly the home of actor [[Michael Caine]]. Fellow Led Zeppelin band member [[John Bonham]] died at the house in 1980.

From the early 1970s to the early 1990s, Page owned [[Boleskine House]], the former residence of occultist [[Aleister Crowley]].{{sfn|Case|2011|p=292}}<ref name="RSbio">{{cite magazine|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ledzeppelin/biography|title=Led Zeppelin Biography|access-date=14 January 2013|magazine=Rolling Stone|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090412110101/http://www.rollingstone.com/artists/ledzeppelin/biography|archive-date=12 April 2009|url-status=dead}}</ref> Sections of Page's [[The Song Remains the Same (film)#Fantasy sequences|fantasy sequence]] in the film ''The Song Remains the Same'' were filmed at night on the mountainside directly behind Boleskine House.

[[File:Plumpton Place - geograph.org.uk - 1523375.jpg|thumb|upright|Plumpton Place, previously owned by Page]]

Page also previously owned [[Plumpton Place]] in Sussex, formerly owned by [[Edward Hudson (magazine owner)|Edward Hudson]], the owner of ''[[Country Life (magazine)|Country Life]]'' magazine and with certain parts of the house designed by [[Edwin Lutyens]]. This house features in the Zeppelin film ''The Song Remains The Same'' where Page is seen sitting on the lawn playing a [[hurdy-gurdy]].

He currently resides in [[Sonning]], Berkshire in [[Deanery Garden]], a house also designed by Edwin Lutyens for Edward Hudson.

===Recreational drug use===
Page has acknowledged heavy [[recreational drug use]] throughout the 1970s. In an interview with ''[[Guitar World]]'' magazine in 2003, he stated: "I can't speak for the [other members of the band], but for me drugs were an integral part of the whole thing, right from the beginning, right to the end."<ref>Tolinski, Brad. "The Greatest Show on Earth", ''Guitar World'', July 2003; re-published in ''Guitar Legends Magazine'', Winter 2004, p. 72.</ref> After the band's 1973 [[Led Zeppelin North American Tour 1973|North American tour]], Page told [[Nick Kent]]: "Oh, everyone went over the top a few times. I know I did and, to be honest with you, I don't really remember much of what happened."<ref>Case, George, "Jimmy Page: Magnus, Musician, Man", ''Hal Leonard Books 2007''; excerpt printed in ''Guitar World'', May 2007, p. 52.</ref>

In 1975, Page began to use [[heroin]], according to [[Richard Cole]].  Cole claims that he and Page took the drug during the recording sessions of the album ''[[Presence (album)|Presence]],'' and Page admitted shortly afterward that he was [[Substance dependence|addicted]] to the drug.{{sfn|Cole|1992|pp=322–326}}

By Led Zeppelin's 1977 North American tour, Page's heroin addiction was beginning to hamper his guitar playing performances.<ref name="allmusicpage" /><ref name="RS2006">{{Cite magazine|last=Gilmore|first=Mikal|title=The Long Shadow of Led Zeppelin|magazine=Rolling Stone|issue=1006|date=10 August 2006|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/11027261/the_long_shadow_of_led_zeppelin/print|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20071111124104/http://www.rollingstone.com/news/story/11027261/the_long_shadow_of_led_zeppelin/print|url-status=dead|archive-date=11 November 2007|access-date=9 December 2007}}</ref><ref name="RS1985">{{Cite magazine|ref=none|last=Davis|first=Stephen|title=Power, Mystery and the Hammer of the Gods: The Rise and Fall of Led Zeppelin|magazine=Rolling Stone|issue=451|date=4 July 1985|url=http://boards.atlantafalcons.com/topic/2988594-the-rise-and-fall-of-led-zeppelin-power-mystery-and-the-hammer-of-the-gods/|access-date=15 May 2014|via=boards.atlantafalcons.com|archive-date=17 May 2014|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140517121157/http://boards.atlantafalcons.com/topic/2988594-the-rise-and-fall-of-led-zeppelin-power-mystery-and-the-hammer-of-the-gods/|url-status=dead}}</ref> By this time the guitarist had lost a noticeable amount of weight. His onstage appearance was not the only obvious change; his addiction caused Page to become so inward and isolated it altered the dynamics between him and Plant considerably.{{sfn|Fast|2001|p=47}} During the recording sessions for ''[[In Through the Out Door]]'' in 1978, Page's diminished influence on the album (relative to bassist and keyboardist John Paul Jones) is partly attributed to his heroin addiction, which resulted in his absence from the studio for long periods of time.<ref>Aizelwood, John. "Closing Time", ''Q Magazine'' Special Led Zeppelin edition, 2003, p. 94.</ref>

Page reportedly overcame his heroin habit in the early 1980s,{{sfn|Davis|1995|pp=316–317}} although he was arrested for possession of cocaine in both 1982 and 1984.<ref>{{cite news|title=Jimmy Page is found guilty of cocaine possession|work=This Day in Rock|url=http://www.thisdayinrock.com/index.php/general/1982-jimmy-page-is-found-guilty-of-cocaine-possession-hes-given-a/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150213112938/http://www.thisdayinrock.com/index.php/general/1982-jimmy-page-is-found-guilty-of-cocaine-possession-hes-given-a/|url-status=usurped|archive-date=13 February 2015|access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref><ref name="People">{{cite news|title=Back from the Led (Zeppelin), Jimmy Page Tries to Rekindle the Old Rock 'n' Roll Fires|work=People|url=http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20090381,00.html|access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref><ref>{{cite magazine|title=Jimmy Page|magazine=Rolling Stone|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/jimmy-page/biography|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110305175334/http://www.rollingstone.com/music/artists/jimmy-page/biography|url-status=dead|archive-date=5 March 2011|access-date=6 June 2015}}</ref> He was given a 12-month conditional discharge in 1982 and, despite a second offence usually carrying a jail sentence, he was only fined.{{sfn|Case|2011|p=343}}

In a 1988 interview with ''[[Musician (magazine)|Musician]]'' magazine, Page took offence when the interviewer noted that heroin had been associated with his name and insisted: "Do I look as if I'm a smack addict? Well, I'm not. Thank you very much."<ref name=DuNoyer/>

In an interview he gave to ''[[Q magazine]]'' in 2003, Page responded to a question as to whether he regrets getting so involved in heroin and [[cocaine]]:

{{blockquote|I don't regret it at all because when I needed to be really focused, I was really focused. That's it. Both ''Presence'' and ''In Through the Out Door'' were only recorded in three weeks: that's really going some. You've got to be on top of it.<ref name="bioh">Kent, Nick. "Bring It On Home", ''Q Magazine'', Special Led Zeppelin edition, 2003</ref>}}

===Interest in the occult===

Page's interest in the [[occult]] started as a schoolboy at the age of fifteen, when he read English occultist's [[Aleister Crowley]]'s ''[[Magick (Book 4)#Part III: Magick in Theory and Practice|Magick in Theory and Practice]]''. He later said that following this discovery, he thought: "Yes, that's it. My thing: I've found it."{{sfn|Salewicz|2018|p=33}}

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The appearance of four symbols on the jacket of Led Zeppelin's [[Led Zeppelin IV|fourth album]] has been linked to Page's interest in the occult.<ref name="GW2008">''Jimmy Page interview'', ''Guitar World'', January 2008.</ref> The four symbols represented each member of the band. Page's own so-called "Zoso" symbol originated in ''Ars Magica Arteficii'' (1557) by [[Gerolamo Cardano]], an old alchemical [[grimoire]], where it has been identified as a [[sigil (magic)|sigil]] consisting of zodiac signs. The sigil is reproduced in ''[[Dictionary of Occult, Hermetic and Alchemical Sigils]]'' by Fred Gettings.{{sfn|Gettings|1981|p=201}}<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.inthelight.co.nz/ledzep/zososymbol.htm|title=Jimmy Page's symbol|date=17 September 2009|access-date=4 December 2009|url-status=dead|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120222124002/http://www.inthelight.co.nz/ledzep/zososymbol.htm|archive-date=22 February 2012}}
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During tours and performances after the release of the fourth album, Page often had the "Zoso" symbol embroidered on his clothes, along with [[zodiac]] symbols. These were visible most notably on his "Dragon Suit", which included the signs for Capricorn, Scorpio and Cancer which are Page's Sun, Ascendant and Moon signs, respectively.  The "Zoso" symbol also appeared on Page's amplifiers.

The artwork inside the album cover of ''Led Zeppelin IV'' is from a painting attributed to the artist Barrington Colby, influenced by the traditional Rider/Waite Tarot card design for the card called "The Hermit". Very little is known about Colby and rumours have persisted down the years that Page himself is responsible for the painting.<ref name="GW2008" /> Page transforms into this character during his fantasy sequence in Led Zeppelin's concert film ''The Song Remains the Same''.

In the early 1970s Page owned an occult bookshop and publishing house, The Equinox Booksellers and Publishers, at 4 [[Holland Street, Kensington|Holland Street]] in [[Kensington]], London, named after Crowley's biannual magazine, ''[[The Equinox]]''.{{sfn|Salewicz|2018|p=289}} The design of the interior incorporated Egyptian and Art Deco motifs, with Crowley's birth chart affixed to a wall. Page's reasons for setting up the bookshop were straightforward:
<blockquote>There was not one bookshop in London with a good collection of occult books and I was so pissed off at not being able to get the books I wanted.{{sfn|Salewicz|2018|p=289}}</blockquote>

The company published two books: a facsimile of Crowley's 1904 edition of ''[[The Goetia]]''<ref name="Tolinski2012">{{cite book|author=Brad Tolinski|title=Light and Shade: Conversations with Jimmy Page|year=2012|publisher=Virgin|url={{google books|plainurl=y|id=6gzUbV5AJQYC}}|isbn=978-0-7535-4039-8|page=183}}</ref> and ''Astrology, A Cosmic Science'' by Isabel Hickey.{{sfn|Salewicz|2018|p=290}} The lease eventually expired on the premises and was not renewed. As Page said: "It obviously wasn't going to run the way it should without some drastic business changes, and I didn't really want to have to agree to all that. I basically just wanted the shop to be the nucleus, that's all."{{sfn|Salewicz|2018|p=410}}

Page has maintained a strong interest in Crowley for many years. In 1978, he explained:

{{blockquote|I feel Aleister Crowley is a misunderstood genius of the 20th century. It is because his whole thing was liberation of the person, of the entity and that restrictions would foul you up, lead to frustration which leads to violence, crime, mental breakdown, depending on what sort of makeup you have underneath. The further this age we're in now gets into technology and alienation, a lot of the points he's made seem to manifest themselves all down the line. ... I'm not saying it's a system for anybody to follow. I don't agree with everything but I find a lot of it relevant and it's those things that people attacked him on, so he was misunderstood. ... I'm not trying to interest anyone in Aleister Crowley any more than I am in Charles Dickens. All it was, was that at a particular time he was expounding a theory of self-liberation, which is something which is so important. He was like an eye to the world, into the forthcoming situation. My studies have been quite intensive, but I don't particularly want to go into it because it's a personal thing and isn't in relation to anything apart from the fact that I've employed his system in my own day to day life. ... The thing is to come to terms with one's free will, discover one's place and what one is, and from that you can go ahead and do it and not spend your whole life suppressed and frustrated. It's very basically coming to terms with yourself.<ref>''[[Sounds (magazine)|Sounds]]'', 13&nbsp;March 1978.</ref>}}

Page was commissioned to write the soundtrack music for the film ''[[Lucifer Rising (film)|Lucifer Rising]]'' by Crowley admirer and underground movie director [[Kenneth Anger]]. Page ultimately produced 23 minutes of music, which Anger felt was insufficient because the film ran for 28 minutes and Anger wanted the film to have a full soundtrack. Anger claimed Page took three years to deliver the music and the final product was only 23 minutes of "droning". The director also slammed the guitarist in the press by calling him a "dabbler" in the occult and an addict and being too strung out on drugs to complete the project. Page countered that he had fulfilled all his obligations, even going so far as to lend Anger his own film editing equipment to help him finish the project.<ref name="GW2006">''The Story Behind The Lost Lucifer Rising Soundtrack'', ''[[Guitar World]]'', October 2006.</ref> Page released the Lucifer Rising music on vinyl in 2012 via his website on "Lucifer Rising and other sound tracks". Side one contained "Lucifer Rising – Main Track", whilst side two contained the tracks "Incubus", "Damask", "Unharmonics", "Damask – Ambient", and "Lucifer Rising  – Percussive Return". In the December 2012 Rolling Stone cover story "Jimmy Page: The Rolling Stone Interview", Page said: "... there was a request, suggesting that Lucifer Rising should come out again with my music on. I ignored it."<ref>{{Cite magazine|last=Fricke |first=David|title=Jimmy Page: The Rolling Stone Interview|url=https://www.rollingstone.com/feature/jimmy-page-the-rolling-stone-interview-101221/8/|magazine=Rolling Stone|date=December 2012|access-date=October 10, 2024}}</ref>

Although Page collected works by Crowley, he has never described himself as a [[Thelemite]] nor was he ever initiated into [[Ordo Templi Orientis]].{{citation needed|date=May 2024}} The Equinox Bookstore and Boleskine House were both sold off during the 1980s, as Page settled into family life and participated in charity work.{{citation needed|date=May 2024}}