Stolen from his Paris gravesite nearly forty years ago, a marble bust in the likeness of Jim Morrison has finally been recovered.
On Monday (5.19,) a spokesperson for French police announced that the statue had been found during a search related to a fraud case, stating:
“After 37 years of absence, the bust of Jim Morrison, stolen in 1988 from the Père Lachaise Cemetery, has been found!” “During an investigation conducted by the Financial and Anti-Corruption Brigade of the Directorate of Judicial Police of the Prefecture of Police, under the authority of the Paris Public Prosecutor’s Office, this iconic symbol for the singer’s fans was recovered.”
It was at the age of 27 in 1971 that The Doors frontman died in a Paris apartment and to commemorate the 10th anniversary of his passing, Croatian sculptor Mladen Mikulin was permitted to place a marble bust and gravestone on the site in 1981.
Heavily vandalized by visitors, the sculpture was stolen in May 1988 – with many theories circulating over the years as to the whereabouts of the heavy sculpture
At press time, it’s not yet known if the iconic bust will be returned to its original location atop Morrison’s grave at the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.
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Author: Al Denté
Photo: Joel Brodsky: Distributed by Agency for the Performing Arts (APA) – Public Domain