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A superfan has had his dreams of spending eternity with Judy Garland dashed.
Earlier this month, the ‘Wizard Of Oz’ star’s body was flown to Hollywood from New York, w her remains had rested since her death in 1969.It’s a blow to the die-hard fan who’d bought the crypt next to hers, which is now empty, in the Ferncliff Mausoleum in tony Westchester, New York.And t’s a knife-twist of irony to the cross-country re-interment saga.
The man who bought the adjacent crypt ‘specifically flew in from California because he is a big fan of hers,’ a Ferncliff cemetery manager told The New York Post.Garland had been interred in crypt No. 31 in Unit 9 of the mausoleum, w nearby spaces go for up to $15,500.
Garland was found dead in her London home in 1969 at age 47, after a barbiturate overdose.
‘I didn’t want her w tourist buses and that sort of thing go through,’ he told The New York Times at Garland’s 1969 visitation in Manhattan.
Now, Garland’s daughter Liza Minnelli was reportedly behind the decision to move the Golden Era starlet’s body to the Hollywood Forever Cemetery, w t is more space for family to be buried nearby.
T, Garland now rests among stars including filmmaker Cecil B. DeMille, Beatles guitarist George Harrison, and Ramones bassist Dee Dee Ramone.
If the Garland fan who bought the New York crypt moves forward with his plans to be buried t, it’s unclear who his new neighbor in eternity will be, if anyone.