| Roberta Pedon | |
|---|---|
| Born | May 2, 1954 Ohio, United States |
| Died | July 30, 1982 (aged 28) |
| Other names | Mooschi, Sadie Schultz |
| Ethnicity | Jewish |
Roberta Pedon (born 2 May 1954 – 30 July 1982) was the stage name of a big-bust Latvian Jewish American glamour model who appeared in men's magazines in the 1970s.
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Born in Ohio to Latvian-Jewish parents, Pedon relocated first to San Francisco and then to Venice, California to start a modeling career.[1] By the winter of 1972-73 she was 18 and living with a college student in San Francisco. ... She separated from her lover and in March, 1973, moved to Venice, California, not far from Hollywood. Bob Ellison and John Kirk, both well-known glamour photographers in Los Angeles, have been credited with discovering her. She was known by many pseudonyms (Roberta Pedon, Melody O'Hare, Roberta Baird and Roberta Weaver.) "Roberta Pedon" was the name she had fully adopted by 1973. The "Melody O'Hare" moniker supposedly came from the name of one of her best friends in junior high. Pedon's nickname was "Mooschi", an Americanized spelling of the German slang term for the pudenda - "Muschi".[2] She modelled/acted under the names Robin, Robbie, Roberta, Sam, Melody O'Hare, and Roberta Weaver.
Because she was young, pretty, with a spectacular large-breasted figure, Pedon's photographs frequently appeared in men's magazines catering to breast fetishists. The earliest verifiable publication of her photos was in the February 1974 edition of "The Swinger", a men's magazine. In Nymphet, February 1975, she appeared under another name and with text referring to her Jewish background. Pedon dressed (and then undressed) as a hippie in most of her photo shoots.
Pedon appeared in the sexploitation film Carnal Madness aka Delinquent Schoolgirls.[3] Her casting was the result of her contacts at American Art Enterprises (AAE), a Los Angeles company that specialized in pornographic shoots and loops. AAE's modeling roster provided the producer of Delinquent Schoolgirls with busty female talent like Pedon and Nika Movenka for the film. After appearing in Delinquent Schoolgirls, Pedon auditioned for the lead female role in the Jan-Michael Vincent film Buster and Billie.
Little is known for certain about her troubled personal life, though Charles Smith wrote a biography based on a mixture of fact and hearsay.[4] What is certain is that she had serious drug addiction problems, which led to her being hospitalized at least once, and to losing her modeling contract with American Art Enterprises. She turned to prostitution during her contract, possibly to feed her drug habit, and was arrested for this at least once, in San Francisco, in 1975.
In Dian Hanson's book, The History of Men's Magazines Vol. 5, Roberta Pedon is listed as one of the top five American covergirls from 1968-1980.
Delinquent Schoolgirls was released on DVD in February 2008.