Prince and the prisoner-Will DNA test prove paternity?
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PRINCE has an heir.
According to the heir.
We've been waiting for this to happen since the purple music icon died without a clear line of inheritance. Nature abhors a vaccum, and here to fill that vacuum is 39-year-old Carlin Q. Williams, of Kansas City, Mo. He's a Colorado prison inmate who has filed a paternity claim with a Minnesota court against the Prince estate and is seeking DNA testing to determine if Prince is his biological father.
In an accompanying affidavit, his mom, Marsha Henson, contends that she conceived Williams while having sex with Prince at a Kansas City hotel in July of 1976.
Aww . . . a Bicentennial baby.
If it turns out Prince really is Williams' daddy, Carlin will move to the front of the queue when Prince's estate is divided.
Papers filed by Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, said he had no known children and listed her and five half-siblings as Prince's only known heirs.
The judge overseeing the estate case on Friday authorized genetic testing on a sample of Prince's blood in case it's necessary to determine who's entitled to share in his estate, and gave creditors four months to file claims. Already, a Kansas City woman who says she's Prince's half-sister has come forward, as well as a California man who contends Prince gave him control over his music catalog and vault via a verbal agreement in the mid-1990s.
Tattle never even met Prince but when we take out our celebrity Ouija board we can hear him giving us the rights to "Purple Rain."
The estate better get used to all this attention. The court overseeing Michael Jackson's estate case rejected more than $50 million worth of dubious claims.
"All we're asking is the truth in this matter. It's an unfortunate circumstance," said Williams' attorney, Patrick Cousins.
The New York Daily News added that Williams is a former crack dealer, per court records, who racked up offenses for drug trafficking and possession, domestic assault and resisting arrest. He's in a "supermax" facility now for illegally transporting a firearm.
In a paisley twist, Cousins was Prince's lawyer about a decade ago.
Williams has long asserted that he's Prince's son, said Cousins, who added that Williams first contacted him a few years ago.
In a second twist, Williams is also a rapper who recorded under the name Prince Dracula and who boasted of his DNA connection to the "Raspberry Beret" performer.
As to how this Prince-ly baby-making allegedly went down, in her affidavit, Henson said she met Prince in the lobby of a Kansas City hotel (TMZ.com reports it was the Crown Center) and that they had wine and later had unprotected sex at a different hotel, at which time she got pregnant. She said she wasn't married at the time and that she hadn't had sex with anyone in the prior six weeks and didn't have sex with anyone else until after she gave birth to Carlin Q.
Prince, by the way, would have been 18 at the time.
TATTBITS
* On the heels of yesterday's story about 92-year-old Sumner Redstone, 70-year-old BET founder Bob Johnson married 37-year-old Lauren Wooden in Napa Valley on Saturday.
He's a prominent businessman and philanthropist. She's an international business-management doctorate student studying in Paris, according to the Washington Post. They've been a couple more than five years.
TV's "Judge Mathis" officiated.
* Jon Bon Jovi and his wife, Dorothea, are joining with local charities and wealthy fellow philanthropists to tackle hunger and poverty in a shore town that was devastated by Superstorm Sandy.
He and his Jon Bon Jovi Soul Foundation held a grand opening Tuesday for the B.E.A.T. Center, which stands for Bringing Everyone All Together. The center in Toms River is designed as a one-stop facility to help people get food stamps, health care and culinary-related job training. It also provides meals for at-risk children and seniors.
* Celebrity Boxing guru Damon Feldman has teamed with Chris Kelly (the CW's Dance City) and 4 Lion Productions to create The 16 Minute Man, a show about Feldman's unique abilities to give a shot of adrenaline to celebrities who find their status waning.
The premiere episode will be shot around the seven-bout fight night June 25, featuring two former boxers from boxing families, 51-year-old Jeff Mayweather vs. 59-year-old Dicky Eklund, who was portrayed by Christian Bale in The Fighter.
* Entertainment Tonight reports that Gwyneth Paltrow's lifestyle brand Goop is now exploring sex and with its typical, populist approach is highlighting a $15,000 24-karat gold dildo named Inez.
You know, if you can afford a gold dildo, you probably don't need one.
- Daily News wire services
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