1. Pamela Susan Courson was the long-term companion of Jim Morrison, singer of the Doors.
14 Facts About Pamela Courson
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Pamela Courson was later legally recognized as his common-law wife.
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Pamela Courson's mother, Pearl "Penny" Courson, was a homemaker who did interior design.
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Pamela Courson and Jim Morrison met at the London Fog nightclub on the Sunset Strip in 1966, while she was an art student at Los Angeles City College.
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Morrison and Pamela Courson had an open relationship, at times very charged and intense, and described as "on-again, off-again" as both maintained ongoing relationships with others, while being strongly committed to each other in their own way.
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Morrison hated heroin and would become angry at Pamela Courson for using such.
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From 1969 to 1971, Pamela Courson operated Themis, a fashion boutique that Morrison bought for her with his royalties from the album Strange Days.
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Pamela Courson stated that on July 3,1971, she awoke to find Morrison dead in the bathtub of their apartment in Paris.
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Early in 1974, Morrison's will was executed as per his wishes, and Pamela Courson inherited his entire estate shortly before her own death in April of the same year.
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Pamela Courson was beautiful, she looked like the Snow Queen and yet she did things like collect Lugers.
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Pamela Courson loved travel because she said you never had to think about it.
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Pamela Courson was the most dangerous girl I ever met.
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Pamela Courson's cremated remains were interred in the mausoleum at Fairhaven Memorial Park in Santa Ana, California.
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Pamela Courson was portrayed by Meg Ryan in Oliver Stone's 1991 film The Doors.