8 Famous Music Love Triangles That Kept Everyone Guessing

5. TODD RUNDGREN, BEBE BUELL, STEVEN TYLER

Model Bebe Buell served as a muse to a number of iconic musicians in the ’70s, including Mick Jagger, Jimmy Page, David Bowie and Iggy Pop. But her long-term, hot-and-cold relationship with rock-pop wizard Todd Rundgren was disrupted by an affair with Aerosmith frontman Steven Tyler in the middle of the decade. She unexpectedly became pregnant with Tyler’s baby, Liv, who was born in July 1977. Due to Tyler’s extensive drug use, Buell claimed that the child was actually Rundgren’s. Even after they parted ways in 1979, Rundgren carefully maintained the “white lie” that he was Liv’s father.

When Liv was 8 years old, she met Tyler and noticed a strong physical resemblance between herself and his daughter, Mia. She mentioned this to Buell, who finally revealed the truth about her biological father. After changing her name to Liv Tyler, father and daughter began to forge a relationship. In 1993, she appeared In her father’s music video for “Crazy” along with Alicia Silverstone.

6. JOEY RAMONE, LINDA DANIELE, JOHNNY RAMONE

Linda Daniele originally dated Ramones frontman Joey Ramone, but things got messy when she entered into a relationship with his bandmate, Johnny Ramone. Some say that Daniele and Joey had already split by the time she became close to Johnny, but Joey took offense to the union—and apparently wasn’t shy about expressing himself. The two Ramones came to blows, with Johnny reportedly beating Joey so badly that he required surgery to treat a blood clot in his head. The band ultimately carried on, though relations between the two would remain strained. The unpleasant incident inspired the song “She’s a Sensation.” Johnny and Daniele married in 1984, and they stayed together until he died of prostate cancer in September 2004.