Joe Rogan Experience #2564 - Chuck Lorre · Aired Oct 13, 2026
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After Jimi Hendrix's death, one of his girlfriends was thrown off a roof and it was called a suicide.
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What the evidence shows
There is a real kernel here. Devon Wilson, a Hendrix girlfriend, died in February 1971 after a fall from the eighth-floor balcony or window of the Chelsea Hotel in New York. But accounts describe her fall as a mystery, with no clear finding that she was thrown or that it was officially called a suicide. Most accounts say balcony or window, with only some saying roof. The girlfriend whose death was ruled a suicide was Monika Dannemann, who was found dead in a fume-filled car in 1996, not thrown from a roof. A police or coroner record showing Wilson's death was formally ruled a suicide, or that she was thrown from a roof, would flip this verdict.
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Is it true that after Jimi Hendrix's death, one of his girlfriends was thrown off a roof and it was called a suicide?
Partly. The claim stretches what the evidence shows. There is a real kernel here. Devon Wilson, a Hendrix girlfriend, died in February 1971 after a fall from the eighth-floor balcony or window of the Chelsea Hotel in New York. It was said on Joe Rogan Experience #2564 - Chuck Lorre, aired Oct 13, 2026, at 59:07. We haven't independently confirmed who said it. The supporting source is rocksoffmag.com, linked below.
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