Cyrinda Foxe appears in the music video, and would become a notable figure in the 1970s rock music scene. Foxe had affairs with Bowie and James Williamson of The Stooges while working under Tony Defries as a publicist for MainMan, Bowie's management company. She later married New York Dolls singer David Johansen. She left him for Aerosmith singer Steven Tyler, with whom she had model Mia Tyler. When Foxe had struggled with cancer, both David Bowie & Steven Tyler donated guitars to pay for her bills. Foxe died in 2002.
The video was shot by Mick Rock in October 1972 in San Francisco, California mixing concert and studio footage of Bowie performing with the Spiders From Mars as "Ziggy Stardust" along with location shots of the singer posing at the Mars Hotel with Cyrinda Foxe. Bowie wanted the video to depict "Ziggy as a kind of Hollywood street-rat" with a "consort of the Marilyn brand." This led to Foxe's casting, and she flew from New York to San Francisco especially for the shoot.