Samantha Juste (born Sandra Slater on 31 May 1944), became widely known on British television in the mid 1960s as the “disc girl” on the BBC’s Top of the Pops. In 1968 she married Micky Dolenz of the Monkees. Their daughter is the actress Ami Dolenz. was born in Manchester, Lancashire. Her mother Phyllis was an accomplished dressmaker and she herself studied textile and dress design at Rochdale College of Art . As a “leggy” blonde, Slater became a teenage model, taking the name “Samantha Juste”. Micky described the first time he saw Samantha: "She was tall, blond, beautiful, and wearing an emerald green outfit that ends up in a short skirt (very short) which tops off her unbelievably gorgeous legs ... She hold his glance briefly then looks quickly away with that haughty sophistication that only the British can do so well".
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