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“Prince Monolulu - famous racecourse character, tipster and Jimi Hendrix lookalike.”
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“Bernard, Jeffrey - one time racing journalist and prodigious drinker. Inspiration for the Keith Waterhouse play Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell.”
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Xtremely Odd Story of Death By Chocolate:
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“On Valentine’s day in 1965 Jeffrey Bernard, who was working as a racing journalist at the time, visited an ill Monolulu in Middlesex hospital wanting an interview. Bernard had brought with him a box of Black Magic chocolates and offered the famous tipster a ‘strawberry cream’. Unfortunately, Monolulu started to fatally choke on the chocolate. Bernard backed out of the ward bidding farewell.”
The untimely demise of Monolulu is related in Bernard's autobiography.