Here’s everything to know about Bob Dylan’s real-life ex-girlfriend, Suze Rotolo, and her relationship with the singer. She was born in New York City. Michael Ochs Archives/Getty.

This image of Bob Dylan and his then-girlfriend Suze Rotolo, captured by Don Hunstein, became famous for being the cover of 1963’s The Freewheelin’ Bob Dylan.

Suze Rotolo, whose love affair with a young Bob Dylan shaped his early songwriting and who appeared with him on the cover of his first hit album, died Feb. 25 of cancer at her home in New York.

Suze Rotolo was just 17 when one of the 20th century’s greatest poets and musicians became smitten. “Right from the start I couldn’t take my eyes off her,” Bob Dylan wrote in his memoir ...

Rotolo was 17 when she met Dylan in 1961, not long after his arrival in New York. A self-described “red diaper baby,” she was the daughter of two Italian immigrants: Gioachino “Pete ...

Suze Rotolo died last month. She was 67. “I actually know more about my cousin by reading Dylan biographies and hearing stories from my mother,’’ he told me 14 years ago.

By DAVID HINCKLEY P ROVING PERHAPS that a woman should never be judged by her album cover, Susan (Suze) Rotolo was never the classic music star girlfriend. But she was a darn good muse.

Suze Rotolo was just 17 when one of the 20th century’s greatest poets and musicians became smitten. “Right from the start I couldn’t take my eyes off her,” Bob Dylan wrote in his memoir.

Bob Dylan and his girlfriend Suze Rotolo pose for a portrait in September 1961 in New York City. Susan Elizabeth Rotolo was born on Nov. 20, 1943, in New York City.

Suze Rotolo was just 17 when one of the 20th century’s greatest poets and musicians became smitten. “Right from the start I couldn’t take my eyes off her,” Bob Dylan wrote in his memoir.