Nancy Laura Spungen (February 27, 1958 – October 12, 1978) was the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Spungen has been the subject of controversy among music historians and fans of the Sex Pistols.
Spungen was born in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania to Frank and Deborah Spungen. The Spungens were a middle class Jewish family in the Huntingdon Valley area, a suburb of Philadelphia. Her father was a businessman and her mo...
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Nancy Laura Spungen (February 27, 1958 – October 12, 1978) was the American girlfriend of Sex Pistols bassist Sid Vicious. Spungen has been the subject of controversy among music historians and fans of the Sex Pistols.
Spungen was born in Lower Moreland Township, Pennsylvania to Frank and Deborah Spungen. The Spungens were a middle class Jewish family in the Huntingdon Valley area, a suburb of Philadelphia. Her father was a businessman and her mother owned a local health food store called The Earth Shop in Jenkintown, Pennsylvania. She was born a month premature, and suffered from severe cyanosis.
As a child, she was extremely intelligent and was allowed to skip the third grade. However, she was hyperactive and reportedly exhibited violent behavior towards her younger sister Susan and brother David. She was also alleged to have threatened to kill a babysitter with scissors, and to have attacked her mother with a hammer during an argument. By age 11, she had been expelled from public...
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