Related: Mama Cass' Daughter Owen 'Didn't Even Know My Dad's Name' Until She Turned 19 (Exclusive) Cass Elliot, whose alto voice graced hits like “California Dreamin’” and “Dream A Little ...

Fact check: Mama Cass didn't choke to death on a ham sandwich, her daughter says in a new book. And thus a legendary rumor about a legendary performer falls.

Cass Elliot ’s daughter is honoring her mother’s legacy. Owen Elliot-Kugell announced Tuesday with Rolling Stone that she will publish a memoir entitled My Mama, Cass next year.

She died from a heart attack in London on 29 July 1974, at the age of 32. In a new memoir, My Mama, Cass, Elliot-Kugell uncovers the origin of the theory that her mother choked on a sandwich.

It all comes full circle in Elliot-Kugell’s new book, My Mama, Cass (279 pp., $30, Hachette Books). Equal parts biography, autobiography, and memoir, it’s a tale that Elliot-Kugell has ...

50 years ago Mama Cass Elliot of the famed '60s group The Mamas & The Papas died suddenly. Her daughter Owen talked with us about her legacy.

Contrary to popular myth, Mama Cass Elliot did not die from choking on a ham sandwich, her daughter is keen for people to know. On the eve of the 50 th anniversary of the death of the songstress ...

Fact check: Mama Cass didn't choke to death on a ham sandwich, her daughter says in a new book. And thus a legendary rumor about a legendary performer falls.