How Jim Morrison REALLY died, by the people who found the body, moved the body and buried him. In early 1974 the court recognised Courson as Morrisons heir. If this account is correct, and many in Paris believe it to be, the official Pam Courson story must be substantially fictional. Pam used to call the Morrisons to let them know that she and Jim were looking forward to seeing them as soon as they got back to the States. I hadn't recognized him. Melbourne. It was the womens toilets. Funds running out, he told Greene to turn over Themis to the trust of Pams sister and her husband wed like to be completely clear of any involvement to organise new credit cards we could use them made out in both our names and to send a cheque for $3000. I called my security guy to smash the door open and inside was Jim. Pamela is here to make confessions about her life, her relationship with Jim, his death, her death and why her heart has been broken since she returned to the other side. Dont ask me what other people think. Pam Courson Birthday and Date of Death. The squat two-storey building was near a variety of cheap motels, strip joints, liquor stores and burlesque bars Morrisons kinda town. Randy Ralson Recalls: "As soon as we [Randy and his friend George] sat down at our table, I noticed a girl sitting alone, giving me some eye dalliance. I thought she was really smart, but maybe other people didn't because she had that kind of mysterious thing about her. His notion of The Doors was as a blues band, and not a pop group. He was living his dream, and that had nothing to do with rock. He was fascinated by the Indians story.. I asked him, did he want a doctor? Judy Garland. At approximately 5:00 a.m. on July 3, 1971, Pam found Jim dead in their bathroom. You are absolutely correct. However, during the next three years, Pamela became trapped in a spiral of vices, decadence, and madness. Hed be silent then hed get up and say something really loud. But I will get back in the saddle. Pam loved to travel so while in Paris they went to Spain, Corsica and they planned to go to London and Switzerland. The Doors felt like old ground. Jim was half there, half somewhere else, Holzman recalled. Jac Holzman saw Jim for the last time at an Elektra Records party to show off a new studio complex on March 3. I had a friend, a customer there every night he was in the club. He had visited the city the previous summer and seemed content to write and explore the place. But Courson . Ronay thinks Muller may have called a day earlier. I wanted this to be Jim and in Jims words, talking about himself and explaining his words, not other peoples input.. COLUMBUS COURSON OBITUARY. The Doors legend died in . I wish I was pregnant too". Courson was in a relationship with her boyfriend until his death in 1971. . By November the Doors embarked a tour in the States and Pam hadn't come home yet. Jean took me to Tangier. That was a depressing experience., Doors road manager Vince Treanor looked on from the wings. I thought they took him back and he died in the bath, trying to get his wits together. They were to peas in a Pod in many ways. Pam, a junkie herself, returned to Jim for a tempestuous Christmas then went back to Paris to renew her relationship with the Count on February 14. It was no secret that Paris was awash with heroin, nowhere more so than in the rock clubs. I recall that in the book Jim said to Judy that Pam had a phobia damaging her hands. I bought him drinks. Morrisons parents litigation for a share of the estate ended several years later in an out-of-court settlement with the Morrisons taking half of the royalties and the Coursons controlling the rights to manage and control Morrisons image, music, and royalties. They took him home, is what they told me. It was bizarre. ", Press J to jump to the feed. On the morning of Friday, July 2 Morrison and Ronay walked in the Marais. He was prone to violent hiccups. I saw that shape, that heavy shape., And what did Chauvel think had happened to Jim? Julia Anne "Judy" Pearson Courson, 75, of Blackshear, passed away early Saturday morning, June 26, 2021, at Kindred Hospital in Green Cove Springs, FL. It was always my belief that he did it to protect my dad who was moving up in the Navy, and to keep his life separate, not to shake it up on both sides, she says. On April 25, 1974, Pamela died of a drug overdose at her Los Angeles apartment, at the age of 27. He always told Judy how much he loved her but that he was unsure of what he wanted. The prospect of spending six months banged up in Floridas Dade County Jail East Wing a notorious hell-hole in paradise didnt fill him with delight. In December 1973 Randy and Pam were preparing things to make a camping trip, they were very happy until Pam talked about her family. they stayed at the London Hilton and for weeks everything was good until Christopher Jones wrote a letter to his ex-wife and a furious Pam left him. Judy Sheindlin, ne Judith Blum, (born October 21, 1942, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American jurist and television personality who was best known for the show Judge Judy (1996-2021). That year, Pam met Christopher Jones, an actor who had lots of similarities with Jim Morrison and had just starred in the youth-oriented film "Wild in the Strets" and they dated for a short time during June and July 1968. Pam hired them 19-year old French-Canadian Robin Wertle. Alain Ronay was a student at the UCLA Film School in 1964; the older man was a post-graduate. He was fed up. But Count Jean de Breteuil was definitely spotted hanging around the street with a friend by Alain Ronay. This is a channeling session done by psychic, medium Claudia Portugal with the soul that was known as "Pamela Susan Courson." the common law wife of the late singer, Jim Morrison. But when Jim suddenly became rich, Judy started to associate herself with her wealthy brother-in-law. Ronay looked at Jim alive for the last time in the Place de la Bastille. I don't think there was any guy who could do that in her life for her." Usually, Texas Radio was used as the prelude to Peace Frog, from Morrison Hotel, or as part of a medley a moment of hiatus between When The Musics Over, Celebration Of The Lizard and The End. Voila!. She shared a couple of memories about Pam in her book. Facebook. I dont read or write much. She wasnt always around, but for the whole of June I lived with Morrison, practically 24 hours a day. Woman was recorded in a state of high excitement. She calls Ronay and Varda, and possibly Count Jean de Breteuil. He was a horrible guy, someone who had crawled out from under a stone, Faithfull wrote in a 2000 autobiography. Send it to The Daily Beast here. Pamela hadnt made a Will. The original rhyme was junkies. Chauvel doesnt believe Morrison was in the club to buy drugs. She was a great beauty. All these being too much, Marianne and Jean hopped a plane for Marrakech, and a peaceful, retreating week., Today Roger recalls: Jean and Marianne seemed very high and spaced out as they recounted the story. Some years before he died, Morrison created a will leaving everything to his common law wife, Pamela Courson, and if she failed to survive Morrison by three months, then his assets would pass to his brother and sister. A 21-year-old war photographer called Patrick Chauvel (opens in new tab) was working as a part-time barman at one such venue the Rock n Roll Circus, on the Left Bank. Alcohol and heroin and downers these are painkillers. Morrison resumed an acquaintanceship with Jacques Demy and his wife Agnes Varda, leading lights in the cinematic French New Wave. Back in Paris that night Pam got hold of more heroin. Tentatively called Latin America, its been offered up for Michelangelo Antonionis film Zabriskie Point. So I checked with her. Stoned immaculate. Web site in French about The Doors and Jim Morrison. It was my idea. In April they travelled to Toulouse, visiting Andorra, Madrid, Granada and Morocco, where Jim had enjoyed the July climate a year earlier with Doors publicist Leon Barnard. Diane would be whispering in my ear as people came up to pay homage to Pamela, the rock and roll princess. The result is The Collected Works of Jim Morrison, out June 8 and published by HarperCollins. Jim Morrison was an alcoholic/drug addict and self destructed without any help from Pamela Courson, but agreed she didnt help his addiction and eventual demise. Joy of films is pleasure of writing.. Then the club owners right hand man appears and confirms: No trouble, no police. Dec 16, 2013 - Jim, who is a lover of film, made several movies in his lifetime (HWY, Feast of Friends) as well as took photography. He used to visit us and eat. The board was on my desk. According to a 2004 Daily Mail article, Breiteuil also claimed to have sold Janis Joplin the heroin that killed her in 1970. With L.A. Woman finished and the title agreed, The Doors convened for the cover photo shoot. Estranged or not, his family deserved to be sole inheritors, not Coursons parents. He recalled a riotous evening in the Soho clubs. Later he and Pam were so taken with the Corsican wine Fuka served they said, Lets go there! They travelled to Marseilles again, where Morrison lost his passport and wallet. After Jim's passing, Pam returned to the States and went to live with her friend publicist Diane Gardiner who kept Pam out of the public eyes with the help of the journalist Ellen Sander. He came, looked at Jim and started a little check-up, then he looked at me and said, That guy is dead.. Ronay and Varda followed separately, There were four unknown pallbearers. The following afternoon Morrison took his new pals to the bar Alexander where he downed Bloody Marys and an entire bottle of Chivas Regal. Learning from Famous Mistakes: Part 5 The Overly Simplistic Estate Plan Beyond the Will, Jim Morrison | Who Inherited His Estate? She simply said, I went to check on him and he was no longer with us.. The gig at the Warehouse, New Orleans, was a fiasco. He and Pam were living without pressures, without schedules, traveling anywhere they liked, coming back only when it pleased them to do so. He was in trouble, yeah, he was, but without the world around him, everything else went away., For the most part Morrison knuckled down. During the making of L.A. Woman, Morrison's partner Pamela Courson went to Paris and stayed with Count Jean de Breteuil, a wealthy socialite with a penchant for blondes, violence against women and horrendous heroin abuse. Poor bastard. House bills are catching up. Touchingly he also asked Greene to make sure his dog Sage was well looked after. Mother and sister of Pamela. We never saw anyone but each other, which kept distractions to a minimum, and kept Jim from feeling inhibited, which I dont think was a problem for him, anyway! Andrew Lee Morrison is the son of father George Stephen Morrison and Clara Clarke Morrison. Judy Courson, 72 of Peoria Heights, passed away Monday, July 27, 2015 at Unity Point Methodist Hospital in Peoria. An insane killer, a lunatic, hes going to do something bad. Involvement with Morrison. According to Faithfulls autobiography, We were staying at LHotel. In the song Love Street he sang She has robes and she has monkeys, lazy, diamond-studded flunkeys. To escape the Parisian damp, the two young Americans decided to catch some sunshine. He had started coughing up blood again so, at Pams insistence, he revisited an American doctor. Visit our corporate site (opens in new tab). Moving to Paris hadnt liberated him. Now, in an interview with Englands Mojo magazine, singer Marianne Faithfull says she knows who killed Morrison: her then-boyfriend, a heroin dealer namedJean de Breiteuil who inadvertently sent the singer on a final ride with Mr. Brownstone. In the 1960s she dated Hollywood literary agent Michael Hamilburg, who was an agent of The Doors' Jim Morrison, who at that time was dating Judy's sister Pam. Ellen recalls: "She was devastated about what had happened and what was going to happen to her." If Morrison WANTED his parents to inherit anything from him, he would have made provisions for them. Morrison viewed the trial as a pivotal moment in his life, making clear that he wanted the entire transcript of his trial included in his future book. And he overdosed.. I think my Jim is dying. We werent in close contact but when he was in L.A., we went to see him a few times. De Breteuil died within the year in Tangier, of a massive heroin overdrose. She called for help, but it was already too late. The magic, madness and transcendence was evident then . I like alcohol; you can go down to any corner store or bar and its right across the table.. _taboola.push({ Muller never saw Morrison again. Everyone laughed: Hey, thats Jim for ya! But look: Im not the one holding his hand. I never read his book but I know what he says is rubbish. When Kevin asks if she has a boyfriend . After 10 minutes of coherent shooting the four of them got totally wasted on Cannabinol, a heavy pill version of marijuana. We went together, we arrived, and the fireman said, Its too late hes already dead. Hed spent a fractious time in 1970 producing Morrison Hotel and then sifted through hours of stage tapes for Absolutely Live. He replied: Get packed, were going to Morocco., Faithfull claims Jean was scared for his life. Please include what you were doing when this page came up and the Cloudflare Ray ID found at the bottom of this page. Jim Morrison: I dont read or write much. Apart from Jim, he has another sibling, Anne Robin Morrison. He would intentionally disrupt things never fruitfully. Author. Jim had also made the first tentative steps towards bridging the chasm that had so long existed between him and his parents. He said he was OK, and he was going to take a hot bath. Ray was impressed by the domestic bliss the couple seemed to have fallen into at their furnished flat on London's Eton Square. He spoke to several guys including me, and said, Weve got a problem here. Any of you folks ever see the Doors live? Herve Muller hadnt seen Jim since they went to a performance of Robert Wilsons en vogue play, Le Regard Du Sourd [Deaf Mans Glance], at Theatre de la Musique on June 11. My adolescence coincided with rock n roll although I never went to any concerts, he said. Forget what you think you know. Its in these legal pads and composition notebooks from the 40-day trial that fans get a clearer sense of Morrison and how he thought. But there just wasnt time to complete to finish things., A lot of people dont realize it, but in his will, he gave Pamela everything, but if she were not to be alive, it was supposed to go to my brother and me. He then decided to take a bath. She was clear on that. Unfortunately for generations forced to listen to conspiracy theories spun byDoors keyboardist Ray Manzarek (RIP), what killed Morrison remains controversial. She was a babe, a hot babe on a red car. Morrison was no stranger to Bernett either. The albums art designers, Wendell Hamick and Carl Cossick, were outside the Elektra family that oversaw previous Doors products. By the time he turned up to the venue, he was steaming. No amount of intelligence, wit, charm, money, and or education provides immunity; addiction is disease that does not discriminate. He recalls: "She had a lovely house, a big Spanish-style place. He was under mind control and used as a guide pig. She belongs to an American nationality . He sat in my kitchen in whats supposed to be his time of craziness he was OK. The first official who saw Morrisons dead body was Alain Raisson, the French fireman/paramedic. According to Gene Cornish's recent autobiography, he played a lot of the bass himself. He then decided to take a bath. Sam Bernetts book that first revealed the story that Morrisons body was moved from the RocknRoll Circus to his bath on the Rue Beautreillis. "I WASN'T AROUND PAM ALL THAT MUCH, I ONLY MET HER A COUPLE OF TIMES." - Patricia Kennealy, 2017 "The only woman that Jim ever took seriously was Pamela Courson. Pamela's sister Judith. Pam call him and she asked him if he wanted to go with her to a concert at the Palladium. I wish he were still alive. Rolling Stone #88 Memorial Issue-Aug 51971. I was the only person at the funeral parlour. She stayed at my place and she went back to the apartment in the day. Alain calls me the day before and Jims not in good shape so it was nothing special. I shook him, I looked at his face, still no reaction. Chauvel even recalls the people who assisted. How Kylie Jenner, 25, has . Back in Paris, Morrison described his adventures to old friends Frank and Kathy Lisciandro, and suggested they visit: Theres a room for you here. I don't know what happened with that; I'm certain he would have loved to consummate the relationship, though I don't think they ever did. Oliver Stone's 1991 biopic portrayed Jim Morrison as a god. The album was released in April 1971. On July 2, 1971 Jim and Pam went to see a movie. He cut loose completely while recording, and the result was a very spontaneous album.. But Ive also heard about her as a girl who loved to party, giggled all the time, loved to laugh and had lots of youth in her. Died. Even so Morrison must have been getting studio withdrawal symptoms, since on June 15 he hooked up with two American street musicians who met him after sinking whiskey at the Caf de Flore. But thats not weird at all, says Siddons, who released a statement on Thursday, July 8 after flying back with Pamela to Los Angeles. Crazy but necessary. Ronays twist is different again. Hed lost weight and regained strength. . Alan Graham was married to Morrison's sister Ann and has written a memoir about his friendship with Jim, . Sam Bernett had been the house manager of the RocknRoll Circus since its opening in 1969. 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