Jean de Breteuil: The French Count Who Dealt Heroin to Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & Rock’s Elite

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and welcome to: Jean de Breteuil: The French Count Who Dealt Heroin to Janis Joplin, Jim Morrison & Rock’s Elite!

He was born into aristocracy, a French count with a title, a fortune, and a childhood spent between Paris and Moroccan villas. Jean de Breteuil had every privilege at his feet. But the swinging sixties had other plans for him.

By the time he reached his twenties, Jean had become something else entirely, a dealer, a wanderer, a velvet-draped phantom on the edges of the rock and roll dream. They called him the "dealer to the stars," and for good reason. Jean wasn’t just supplying drugs, he was deeply embedded in the scene, intimately involved with the people who defined a generation.

He dated Marianne Faithfull, who later called him “a curse on humanity.” He traveled with Pamela Courson, Jim Morrison’s longtime partner, and reportedly gave Janis Joplin the heroin that killed her. He supplied Keith Richards with Thai heroin hidden in makeup compacts and floated between Europe and Los Angeles, slipping between worlds: aristocrat and outlaw, lover and destroyer.

Jean met Pamela Courson in Los Angeles, where he was attending UCLA in name only. He used diplomatic connections to smuggle hash and heroin through Moroccan pouches, and quickly charmed Pamela with his aristocratic background, Moroccan villas, and endless supply of drugs. Their relationship grew serious and dangerous. Pamela began drifting from Jim Morrison and deeper into Jean’s orbit.

Jean also dated Marianne Faithfull during one of the darkest periods of her life. In her memoir, she described their relationship as cold and transactional, with Jean more interested in her rock-star connections than her as a person. “He had a lot of drugs,” she said, and that seemed to be the foundation of most of his relationships.

In October 1970, Janis Joplin was found dead in a hotel room. The heroin she took was almost certainly from Jean de Breteuil’s batch - uncut, dangerously pure. That same night, Jean visited Miss Mercy of the GTOs, gave her a dose from the same supply, and watched in horror as she nearly overdosed in front of him. Janis didn’t survive. It was just one of many deaths that would soon follow in his wake.

In early 1971, Pamela convinced Jim to move to Paris with her: a fresh start, away from LA. But Jean was still involved. Pamela had been staying with him before Jim arrived, and their apartment in Paris was reportedly found through Jean’s connections. Jean and his circle of wealthy addicts were frequent guests, and tensions mounted. Then came July 3rd, 1971.

Jim Morrison was found dead in the bathtub of his apartment. No autopsy was performed. The official cause was heart failure, but many suspected heroin. Marianne Faithfull later revealed that Jean had received a call from Pamela that night, rushed to the apartment, and returned to their hotel in a panic saying, “I’ve killed him.” Jean fled Paris that same day.

Less than a year later, Jean de Breteuil was found dead of a heroin overdose in Tangier. He was twenty-two.

Everyone around him seemed to fall.
Janis Joplin, dead at 27. Jim Morrison, dead at 27. Talitha Getty, overdosed in Rome just eleven days after Jim. Pamela Courson, dead in 1974 from a heroin overdose - also at 27.

Only Marianne Faithfull survived. She later said: “Everyone who had to do with Jean was doomed… He was really a pretty dreadful person. Even I eventually realized he was a curse on humanity.”

This is the story of Jean de Breteuil: the French aristocrat who dealt drugs to rock legends, drifted through the margins of fame, and disappeared before most people ever learned his name.

But the names he left behind? You know them.

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