When is the End Never the End? When You’re Talking About Jim Morrison
Rolling Stone is reporting that Jim Morrison’s death may be reinvestigated. Previously it was determined that Jim, who was found in his bathtub, died of natural causes. But Sam Bernett, the author of a new book The End: Jim Morrison, is alleging that “the rocker died of a massive heroin overdose in the bathroom of the Rock & Roll Circus club in Paris’ Left Bank and was then moved to the tub as part of an astonishing cover-up meant to deflect blame from the posse of drug dealers Morrison patronized.”
He further claims that in the early hours of July 3, 1971, Morrison showed up looking to buy heroin for his then-girlfriend Pamela Courson.” Abut half ano hour later, a cloakroom attendant came up to me and told me someone was locked in one of the cubicles and wasn’t coming out. I got a bouncer to smash the door down,” Bernett recalls. He says he found Morrison’s body slumped over the toilet. “We were certain he’d been snorting heroin because there was foam coming out of his lips as well as blood,” Bernett says. He brought in a customer who worked as a medic, who proclaimed Morrison dead.
At this point, Bernett says, Morrison’s dealers carried the rocker out of the club, saying they would take care of him. He also claims that Marianne Faithfull was in the bar that night and was similarly sworn to secrecy.
Read more at rollingstone.com.
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