New Book Casts Doubt On Cause of Jim Morrison's Death: ; Manager of Club Where Doors Frontman Was Last Seen Suggests Rock Icon Died of Heroin Overdose

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PARIS - The official story goes like this: On the last night of Jim Morrison's life, the rocker went to a movie in Paris, listened to records, fell ill and died of heart failure in his bathtub at the age of 27.

But rumors have always swirled around the death of The Doors frontman and, 36 years later, a former Paris nightclub manager is telling a different story. In a new book, Sam Bernett says that Morrison died in a toilet stall of his club after what he believes was a heroin overdose.

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New Book Casts Doubt On Cause of Jim Morrison's Death: ; Manager of Club Where Doors Frontman Was Last Seen Suggests Rock Icon Died of Heroin Overdose

He writes of his shock on finding Morrison's body: "The flamboyant singer of 'The Doors,' the beautiful California boy, had become an inert lump crumpled in the toilet of a nightclub." Bernett, whose French-language ...

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