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Aug 3, 2016 · Marianne Ihlen passed away on July 29th. She was 81 years old. She and Cohen were lovers in the 1960s after they met in Greece. When Cohen learned Ihlen's health was deteriorating, he immediately...
Dec 5, 2018 · Ihlen’s friend who brokered this final exchange with Cohen was film-maker Jan Christian Mollestad. Within days of Ihlen’s passing, Canada’s national English-language broadcaster, CBC radio,...
Aug 8, 2016 · Documentarian Jan Christian Mollestad, a longtime friend of Ihlen’s, spoke with CBC and explained how she sent him a text recently to say that she was dying of leukemia. He hurried to the 81-year-old’s bedside and sent a message to Cohen to inform him of Ihlen’s situation.
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Jul 24, 2019 · “It all happened so quickly,” he sighs. Before she died, Ihlen’s close friend, Jan Christian Mollestad, contacted Cohen, letting him know that she didn’t have long left.
Aug 7, 2016 · According to Mollestad, after he informed Cohen of Ihlen’s looming death from leukemia, the legendary singer-songwriter-poet responded two hours later with a “beautiful” letter, which Mollestad...
Aug 2, 2016 · Jan Christian Mollestad is currently completing a biographical film about Marianne. “Marianne slept slowly out of this life yesterday evening. Totally at ease, surrounded by close friends ...
Jun 27, 2019 · The footage was shot on an iPhone by her friend Jan Christian Mollestad, who was making a documentary about Ihlen's novelist ex-husband. "It was not a bitter end," Mollestad says in the film.
