Background
Born in New York on August 30th, 1946, Peggy Lipton was raised in a comfortably upper-middle-class family, her parents being the corporate lawyer Harold Lipton, and an artist known professionally as Rita Benson. Her paternal grandparents were Russian Jews, and her mother was born in Dublin, Ireland to Jewish parents, immigrants from Eastern Europe. Lipton was raised on Long Island with her brothers, Robert, an actor, and Kenneth. She attended Lawrence Junior High School and the Professional Children's School.
Sexually abused by an uncle, Lipton was a nervous, withdrawn child, with a stutter so bad that at times she could not say her own name. In 1964 the family moved to Los Angeles and she became what she described as a "Topanga Canyon hippie", exploring meditation and yoga and subsisting on rice cakes and cottage cheese.
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