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[mina]

This might have been posted here before. Jim Morrison's handwritten will. Fake or not, I don't know. Looks real.

http://www.tumblr.co...fore=1332036425

[Defiance]

mina, on 19 June 2012 - 07:49 PM, said:

This might have been posted here before. Jim Morrison's handwritten will. Fake or not, I don't know. Looks real.

http://www.tumblr.co...fore=1332036425

Did Jim write it? Yes. Is it a real will???

The wording is curious because it puts a condition on it(i.e. if not yet 'wed').

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"Jan 21, 1969

To whom it may concern

I bequeath all of my world possessions to my only companion in life, Pamela Susan Courson, in the event that we have not yet been wed

Jim Morrison”

Handwritten will written by Jim Morrison. His wishes were unfortunately not enough to save her..

What does the blogger mean by that sentence of her after Jim's name? Jim wanted The Doors to give Pamela money for Heroin?

Pamela had no money and she was addicted to these drugs. This will doesn't even mention money that Jim may have in an account.

In the books is info about how she got money from The Doors, they gave her some but she needed more, then she started doing other stuff and eventually got caught for leaving a car at the LA airport parking lot with a trunk full of packaged cannabis....etc. They let her go.

She may have been murdered.  Lose ends. Possibly something involving Project Monarch.

Edited by Defiance, 20 June 2012 - 07:54 AM.

[mina]

Defiance, on 20 June 2012 - 07:49 AM, said:

Did Jim write it? Yes. Is it a real will???

The wording is curious because it puts a condition on it(i.e. if not yet 'wed').

I don't see any weirdness in that sentence.(edit: ohh, my english sucks. I don´t know if I understood your line correctly. I thought you meant that the wording was weird. Obviously they were going to have a wedding, if that piece of paper is real, and that´s interesting. ) But I guess this isn't official one. Does someone know about this, is this really something he wrote? In wikipedia it says, that Jim wrote the will on Feb 12, 1969. Is this something informal he wrote also??


What does the blogger mean by that sentence of her after Jim's name? Jim wanted The Doors to give Pamela money for Heroin?

Pamela had no money and she was addicted to these drugs. This will doesn't even mention money that Jim may have in an account.

In the books is info about how she got money from The Doors, they gave her some but she needed more, then she started doing other stuff and eventually got caught for leaving a car at the LA airport parking lot with a trunk full of packaged cannabis....etc. They let her go.

She may have been murdered.  Lose ends. Possibly something involving Project Monarch.

Edited by mina, 20 June 2012 - 12:26 PM.

[Snowdrop]

I've never come across it before, it sure is not the formal one. Which is here: http://www.rockmine....Doors/Will.html

Last sentence is a bit interesting for emphasizing "not yet been wed", like giving someone who needs reassurance. If it's real one may wonder what happened that day.

[Moe Joe]

I went thru the pics and came across the one where she has no shirt. When was that taken, anyone know?

[mizscarlett43]

Moe Joe, on 21 June 2012 - 08:22 PM, said:

I went thru the pics and came across the one where she has no shirt. When was that taken, anyone know?

If it's the one I think it is, that was taken a year or two after Jim's death by her then-boyfriend Randy Ralston.

[Defiance]

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  mina -Junior Member
Posted 20 June 2012 - 11:32 AM

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Defiance, on 20 June 2012 - 08:49 AM, said:

Did Jim write it? Yes. Is it a real will???

The wording is curious because it puts a condition on it(i.e. if not yet 'wed').

I don't see any weirdness in that sentence.(edit: ohh, my english sucks. I don´t know if I understood your line correctly. I thought you meant that the wording was weird. Obviously they were going to have a wedding, if that piece of paper is real, and that´s interesting. ) But I guess this isn't official one. Does someone know about this, is this really something he wrote? In wikipedia it says, that Jim wrote the will on Feb 12, 1969. Is this something informal he wrote also??

Jim had a thing with words...they meant something to him in his lyrics. Why should we think that an important note such as this would not also contain careful word selection? We shouldn't.

He wrote that will. It is real just as Jim and Jesus are real. The question though, is it valid?

If he wrote a new will after Jan. 21, then the old one would be invalid. Most people might destroy the old one, but since Jim wrote it, Pam would not have thrown it out regardless of whether it was anything 'official' and of validity.

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Under Morrison's will, which stated that he was "an unmarried person", Courson inherited his entire fortune. Lawsuits against the estate would tie up her quest for inheritance for the next two years. Courson did not remain in contact with the remaining Doors members after she received her share of Morrison's royalties.

The will you mention being written on Feb. 12, would likely be one that was typed by Max Fink's secretary and contained Fink's signature stating that he was a witness to Morrison signing the will. I would guess that the wording may have been corrected from that original handwritten will and added to in order to cover all legal bases. We must find the current one and compare.

If someone dies without a will, it is intestate. This usually results in the families taking control.

I don't know exactly how it happened with the Morrison and Courson estates, but I recall the Courson's got rights to the written poetry and the spoken poetry tapes while the Morrisons control the songs and Jim's image.

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After her death, her parents, Columbus and Peny Courson, inherited Morrison's fortune. Morrison's parents later contested their executorship of the estate.

In the 2000s, Ray claimed that Corky Courson was preventing An American Prayer albums parts 2 an 3.  It became apparant though that Ray's unwillingness to work with Densmore is the real reason we don't get new music.

I never said weird.  I said it was curious that he said 'wed'. He did not use the word 'married' or 'marriage'.

I must disagree with your assesment that wed = wedding. A wedding is a short ceremony. To wed is an act which does last forever and it is under God. A man and woman is to wed, and they will be wed for life. A wedding only lasts a day though.

Also, a couple can become married without a wedding. Conversely, two gay men can have a wedding (non-church), but they can't be married. Do you see the difference? God gave us Marriage and it is between a man and a woman, but weddings are just parties that anyone can have if they so choose.

Ever see a wedding in a movie? Is it a real wedding? Of course it is a real wedding. Are the actors really getting married? No, of course not.

I don't think that anything was obvious, let alone the fact that Jim and Pam would have a wedding and/or get married. They were both heroin addicts. The early days and the good times were over. Those two were never gonna be an old couple.

Edit I: Wikipedia is saying that Pamela was pimped out by a 'former Doors employee', a chauffeur, in the years before her 1974 death.

II: To me, "If not yet wed" is a romantic and poetic term, not something that should be on legal papers. In the eyes of the law, someone is either married or unmarried, hence the inclusion of said term in the revised will of Feb 12. There really is no inbetween.... 'boyfriend' and 'girlfriend' and 'fiancee' don't actually exist.

Edited by Defiance, 22 June 2012 - 05:57 PM.

[StupidGirl]

Moe Joe, on 21 June 2012 - 08:22 PM, said:

I went thru the pics and came across the one where she has no shirt. When was that taken, anyone know?

Amen, can't wait for the Christmas release of Victor Hugo's musical version...so , he got banned for objecting to a common law marriage?A will? off the wall bullshit? or was it his religion he thought Morrison was gonna endorse?*no religion;no politics;no sex*here...leave it at home...