>>126742831He definitely died in the bathroom stall of the Rock n Roll Circus club and was moved to his hotel room. May have been opiates, may have been other shit. Drinking as much as he did, it wouldn’t take much to depress his breathing enough to kill him. Any number of softer drugs could have done it. Although bathroom stalls do give off the shooting up impression.
I don’t think he so much wanted to die as he didn’t care much whether he lived or not. He wouldn’t have gone to jail, but he was definitely fucked up mentally from the backlash of that incident. Plus he was going back to being fat like he had been his whole life until 1966.
The drugs and alcohol hid it, but underneath, he had low self esteem and cared way too much about what other people thought of him.