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rived—quiteaclean-upjob,requiringthreehours.ShethenwentsofarastocreateaJesus-
returns-to-Mary tableau. To “prove” she didn't just let Hendrix lie there dead for three
hoursbeforecallingthecops,she“broughtHendrixbacktolife”atthehospital.Talkabout
resurrecting a god to save your soul. Or your ass.
The troubling fact remains that Devon Wilson claimed she deliberately dosed Jimi
Hendrix with heroin, causing his overdose, and she was from that point overwhelmed by
guilt. But if she had dosed him at Lambert's party, wouldn't he have overdosed right away,
while still at the party, instead of later that night? If she had injected the heroin into his
arm, he would have OD'd right away. But a buzz on ingested heroin can last up to eight
hours. Hendrix would have had ample time to arrive at the hotel, hang out with Monika for
a while, go to sleep while the dose was taking effect, and then, while sleeping, die of the
overdose. 32
The drama surrounding Hendrix's death eventually played out in Los Angeles.
MARLOWE WEST
So one night we all went out to the Whiskey A Go Go 33 —Devon and Marquise
and Angie and Mercy. And Devon had some of Jimi's clothes, including this
purple-fringed coat. Hanging out with these groupies and this coat, I was sud-
denly like the most famous boy in Hollywood! Everybody knew the groupies.
AndDevonhadacrushonMarquise, even thoughMarquise wasstraight. Devon
kept on spooning coke into everybody's noses. We weren't really wild like that,
with the drugs. But Devon had an arsenal of coke and heroin with her. She was
really a wild girl! But finally, when they left our house, Devon gave Marquise
the purple coat as a gift and said “Thanks for letting us stay!”
Then one night, Marquise got raped. Two men dragged her into an alley and
raped her. She was wearing that Jimi Hendrix coat at the time. After that, she
couldn't stand the coat—it reminded her of the rape. So I gave her twenty-five
dollars for it. And I still have it in my closet. Someday, somehow, maybe it'll
come to light that this was really Hendrix's jacket.
Devon left our place a few days after she had arrived. She and Angie Burdon
went to live at Arthur Lee's place, the guy from the band Love. 34 That was the
last time I ever saw Devon Wilson.
Years later, when I lived at the Chelsea again, it turned out that a guy named
David Kramer 35 was doing a documentary about Jimi Hendrix. Robert Campbell
turned me on to Kramer.
“You should get hold of Marlowe,” Robert told Kramer, “because Marlowe
has Jimi's coat.”
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