Convict claims to be pop music icon Prince’s son and heir
A 39-year-old convict claims he is the son of Prince, seeking a DNA test that could make him an heir.
A 39-year-old prison inmate claims he is the son of Prince, seeking a DNA test that could make him heir to the late singer’s estate.
A lawyer for Carlin Q. Williams, who is from Kansas City, lodged an objection to a court filing by Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson saying he had no children.
Williams is serving a sentence for gun possession in a stolen car and is not due to leave the high-security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, until 2020.
His mother, Marsha Henson, submitted a sworn statement saying she met the singer — whose full name was Prince Rogers Nelson — at a Kansas City hotel in July 1976. The two drank wine and he took her to his room at the now defunct Midwest Hotel where they had unprotected sex.
The lawyer requested a DNA test to determine whether Prince was the father of Williams. The petition says Williams “believes he is or may be the sole surviving legal heir” of the pop icon, who died aged 57 on April 21 without leaving any known will.
A 2014 court document on Williams’ sentencing said that he had a troubled childhood and wrote: “His father had no presence at all in his life.” The sentencing memorandum said that Williams had seven half-siblings and that he dropped out of school in 10th grade before being convicted of drug offences.
The extent of Prince’s fortune remains unclear but it is likely to be considerable as he had sold more than 100 million records. An heir would also have control over Prince’s vault at his Paisley Park estate near Minneapolis, which is said to hold massive amounts of unreleased material.
Prince’s sister and five living half-siblings have been named as heirs and assigned an administrator to handle his estate.
Prince had a son in 1996 with his then wife, dancer Mayte Garcia, but the boy died a week later from a rare condition.
Meanwhile, a search warrant says Minnesota doctor Michael Todd Schulenberg saw Prince twice in the month before his death — including the day before he died — and prescribed him medication.
Police interviewed Dr Schulenberg and searched a hospital where he worked. The warrant did not specify the drugs or whether Prince took them.
They also searched Paisley Park on Tuesday.
AFP, AP
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