Owen Elliot-Kugell, the daughter of late The Mamas & the Papas member Cass Elliot, is setting the record straight on her mother's death in her new memoir, My Mama, Cass. In July 1974, Cass passed ...

"They made quite a few really great records. It just wasn't the right combination," Owen Elliot-Kugell exclusively tells PEOPLE Liz McNeil is an Editor at Large at PEOPLE, where she's worked for ...

In an excerpt from her new book, My Mama, Cass, Owen-Elliot Kugell reflects on the last time she saw her mother, and explains her quest to honor her legacy ...