Throughout his all too brief lifetime, Jimi Hendrix was believed to have been childless. However, following his untimely death in 1970, two individuals came forward claiming to be his love children. In 1972, Diane Carpenter, one of Hendrix’s former lovers, claimed that the iconic guitarist was the father of her 4-year-old daughter, Tamika Laurice James, as Rolling Stone reports. When confronted by Carpenter, Hendrix neither confirmed nor denied that he was Tamika’s father, but his attempts to undergo DNA testing were thwarted by his frequent touring commitments. Following Hendrix’s death, Carpenter claimed that her daughter was the rightful heir to the musician’s estate, which was worth $400,000 (around $2.8 million in 2023). However, the absence of a DNA test meant that the estate went entirely to Hendrix’s estranged father.
Similarly, in 1994, a Swedish man purported to be the son of Hendrix. According to a Rolling Stone report, James Henrik Daniel Sundquist was born a year before Hendrix died, the result of a supposed affair between his mom, Eva Sundquist, and the guitarist when he was touring Sweden. Subsequently, he sued the Hendrix estate after a Swedish court determined that he was the musician’s biological son (he did not, however, undergo DNA testing). “I just feel I’ve been treated unfairly,” James, who later changed his name to Hendrix Jr., said. “I want people to know that I am not a fake.” According to Seattle Pi, neither of Hendrix’s alleged love children ended up inheriting any money from his estate.
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