O ne day in May 1988, Antoine Le Grand, a photographer in Paris, was sent on a mysterious assignment for a culture magazine called Globe . Two young men had called the office claiming to be the culprits in one of rock’s most legendary heists: the recent theft of a 300-pound bust of Jim Morrison from his gravesite at the Père Lachaise cemetery. They wanted notoriety — and their pictures in a magazine. Le Grand went to an address in a tony part of town near the Left Bank of the Seine, the 14th arrondissement. “The house was really nice design and made by an architect,” he recalls. “Whoever lived there, they are really rich people.”

Inside, Le Grand met the two French guys, who had short, punky dark hair. The bust sat on the floor behind them, graffitied, covered in candle wax, missing

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