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TIL of Jean de Breiteuil, a late 60's UCLA student and heroin dealer to major musicians of the day. In addition to being a main supplier to a young Keith Richards, he was with Janis Joplin a few days before her death in Los Angeles, and Jim Morrison died in Breituil's bathtub in Paris in 1971.

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