Daily Star, Wednesday January 22nd 2003
WHO 'WIFE' WILL FACE STRIP GIRL
ROCKER John Entwistle's partner plans to confront the stripper he spent his last night with to grill her about his death
Lisa Pritchett-Johnson wants exotic dancer Alison Rouse to talk her through the Who guitarist's final hours.
Entwistle, 57, Lisa's partner for 18 years, had been with Rouse before he died in a Las Vegas hotel room last June.
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"I just want to talk to her face to face to find out what really happened," said Lisa, who shared the star's palatial home at Stow-on-the-Wold, Glos.
"I don't hate this woman but I want her to tell me all the facts so I can have some peace of mind.
"I know John loved me and didn't make a habit of sleeping around."
Lisa revealed that John was planning to marry her and had vowed to tone down his rock'n'roll lifestyle.
She added: "The night he died he had phoned me five or six times but I kept missing his calls. I just kept thinking if I'd been around when he wanted me he wouldn't have gone with this woman.
"He was the best soul I ever met. he was my lover, my brother, my mate.
"He made me laugh and he made me cry - I went through every possible emotion with that man. We had so many plans. We were going to grow old together and he was even teaching me to garden."
Since the star's death Lisa has rarely left the 42-acre, 53-bedroom Gothic mansion they shared.
But she will be forced to move under the terms of Entwistle's will. His multi-million pound fortune is to be split between Lisa, his mum Queenie, 81, and his son Christopher, 31.
Arriving in Las Vegas for the start of the tour, Entwistle hooked up with a girlfriend, 32-year-old Alison Rowse, who danced at a local strip club, the Deja Vu, under the stage name of Sianna. The pair went on drinking in the hotel bar until the early hours of the next morning, and Entwistle took a small amount of cocaine.
At around 3am, the two of them went up to Entwistle’s suite. According to Rowse, before they went to bed together, Entwistle took out his hearing aid and put it on the bedside table, and then folded his trousers carefully over the back of a chair. ‘He was charming and kind, a real gentleman,’ Rowse said. At some point during the night, Entwistle’s heart gave out and he died in his sleep. He was 57.