Bass legend Carol Kaye calls Mrs. Maisel depiction of her "slander" that made her life a "joke"

New York Post

Liza Weil's Carol Kaye in Season 3 of The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel has been described as a "clever tribute" to the 84-year-old Kaye, who's been dubbed the “First Lady of Bass." But Kaye isn't happy with the tribute. “It’s a Hollywood, silly fluff piece (that has nothing to do with me or my history," she tells the New York Post. "They took a few things out of my book and created a character that’s not even me at all. A lot of people are saying, ‘That must be you. I love it!’ But I am not a cartoon — and my life is not a joke...Nobody contacted me. I didn’t know a thing about it. I thought that was pretty bad — kind of like slander.”