Jim Morrison’s Long-Lost Bust Recovered in French Police Search

A long-lost bust of The Doors frontman Jim Morrison has been recovered, 37 years after it was stolen from his gravesite at the Père Lachaise cemetery in Paris, France.

French authorities announced the recovery in an Instagram statement last Friday, May 16th, revealing the sculpture was found during an unrelated investigation by the Financial and Anti-Corruption Brigade.

The announcement was accompanied by a photo of the bust, which was carved by Croatian artist Mladen Mikulin in 1981. It shows the sculpture is still covered in graffiti and missing a chunk of its nose, the latter of which had reportedly been sliced off by souvenir hunters before it disappeared from the gravesite decades ago.