The Independent - London, January 12th, 1997
IN 1993 Jerry Garcia signed a one-paragraph document typed by his sometime wife, Carolyn "Mountain Girl" Adams. In it, she contends, the Grateful Dead guitarist, icon of old hippies everywhere, promised to pay her $5m (about pounds 3m) over 20 years if she agreed to a divorce. Mountain Girl, a legend of hippie culture in her own right, received $400,000 before the payments were cut short by her ex-husband's death in August 1995. A California judge will rule this week whether Garcia, as is claimed, was in such a haze from the constant use of drugs that he was incompetent to sign the impromptu ...
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