For years, Mama Cass’ daughter Owen Elliot-Kugell had no idea who her biological father was. It wasn’t until she was 19 years old that learned his name: Chuck Day.

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 ...

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.

But first she had to learn the truth. When Cass died on July 29, 1974 in London from a heart attack at age 32, Owen was just 7 years old. “In my younger years, when people would talk to me about ...

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.

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.