Rock Music Figure. She was the longtime girlfriend and alleged wife of rock singing icon Jim Morrison of the band "The Doors." Born in Weed, California, she met Jim Morrison when she was 19 while an art student at Los Angeles City College. She would be his girlfriend for the next 5 years until his death in 1971. Pamela took the name Morrison later on in their relationship. On July 2, 1971, Jim and Pamela went to see a movie. After the movie, they returned to their apartment in Paris. Jim went to bed and awoke sometime later coughing and complaining of chest pains. He then decided to take a bath. At approximately 5:00 a.m. on July 3, 1971, Pamela found Jim dead in their bathroom. Pamela died April 25, 1974, in her Hollywood apartment of a heroin overdose. Despite the fact that her parents were going to have her buried with Jim at Pere Lachaise cemetery (Paris, France), and the fact that her father listed it as the place of burial on her death certificate, there was too much red tape involved in transporting a body to a foreign country for burial. Her parents had her cremated remains buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.
Rock Music Figure. She was the longtime girlfriend and alleged wife of rock singing icon Jim Morrison of the band "The Doors." Born in Weed, California, she met Jim Morrison when she was 19 while an art student at Los Angeles City College. She would be his girlfriend for the next 5 years until his death in 1971. Pamela took the name Morrison later on in their relationship. On July 2, 1971, Jim and Pamela went to see a movie. After the movie, they returned to their apartment in Paris. Jim went to bed and awoke sometime later coughing and complaining of chest pains. He then decided to take a bath. At approximately 5:00 a.m. on July 3, 1971, Pamela found Jim dead in their bathroom. Pamela died April 25, 1974, in her Hollywood apartment of a heroin overdose. Despite the fact that her parents were going to have her buried with Jim at Pere Lachaise cemetery (Paris, France), and the fact that her father listed it as the place of burial on her death certificate, there was too much red tape involved in transporting a body to a foreign country for burial. Her parents had her cremated remains buried at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.
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PAMELA SUSAN
1946 - 1974
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