Jimi Hendrix had at least two children.
One is a girl born around 1966. Her name is Tamika Laurence James. I
believe her mother is from Minnesota and Jimi met her in New York. I am a
bit fuzzy on the daughter, but I believe this is correct. (The following is
taken from court records.)
Filed in New York Surrogates court, re The Estate of James M. Hendrix, on
November 18, 1971, an application was commenced by Al Hendrix, who claimed
to be his distributee, for payment of part of his distributive share of the
estate. A guardian ad litem appeared for an infant and opposed the petition
on the ground that the infant, not father, was sole distributee of the de-
ceased. The Surrogate's court held that statute providing that the child
is the legitimate child of father so that he and his issue inherit from
father if court, during lifetime of father, has made order of filiation
declaring paternity in proceeding instituted during pregnancy of mother or
within two years from birth of child does not result in discrimination
constituting denial of equal protection of law to an illegitimate child.
And if you understood that, I congratulate you!! HAHAHAHAHA
Seriously though, the decision goes on to state that the court also held
that where deceased had not acknowledged paternity of his allegedly
illegitimate child and no order of filiation declaring paternity had been
instituted during deceased's lifetime, infant was not a distributee of
deceased and lacked status to oppose application made by deceased's father.
Basically, what the court said was that since Jimi did not acknowledge
the child was his and no paternity proceeding was held during the pregnancy
or within two years from the birth of the child, the child was not re-
cognized as being an heir of Jimi and thus lacked any standing to oppose
Al's application to receive proceeds from the Estate.
If I also remember right, Jimi had asked Henry Steingarten to take care
of this and I believe Jimi was going to acknowledge that the child was his.
This was a few weeks before he died. So, the acknowledgment never happened.
Back to the decision; it states that Jimi died without leaving a will.
The decision states that the assets of the estate are in excess of
$400,000. The administrator of the Estate consented to the advance payment
to Al. Certain creditors appeared to oppose the petition as well.
So, Tamika James' lawyer argued that the advance payment should not be
made as to Al as she is the sole heir, not Al. Her lawyer recognizes that
Tamika's mother and Jimi were never married and no paternity proceedings
occurred. It is also alleged that Jimi lived with the mother for some time
prior to the child's birth, but not thereafter. I believe Jimi had just
gone to London before Tamika was born. A lawyer representing the mother
tried for sometime to have Jimi recognize Tamika as his daughter. Most
likely because by this time, Jimi had hit the big time. Jimi had not
recognized paternity before he died.
The court then states there is no proof that Tamika is Jimi's child and in
order to establish this, a filiation hearing would have to be held and if
she was recognized as Jimi's child, then she could only succeed if a
statute, known as Children Out-of-Wedlock, formerly known as Bastards, was
declared unconstitutional. I believe it is the Fourteenth Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.
So, the court decided to look at the unconstitutionality of the statute.
If the statute was not unconstitutional, then it wouldn't matter if Tamika
was found to be Jimi's daughter or not. If, however, the statute was un-
constitutional, then the hearing into the paternity of the child would be
held and if Tamika was found to be Jimi's daughter, she would be his sole
heir and Al's petition would fail.
The court cites a number of case law and concludes that the New York
statute requiring a reasonable substantiation of the claim of paternity
does not impose an improper condition and does not result in a discrim-
ination constituting a denial of equal protection of the law to an il-
legitimate. It is held that the infant has not established that she is a
distributee of deceased and, as a consequence, she lacks status to oppose
the petition.
In other words, the statute was not found to be unconstitutional, and
whether Tamika was ever proven to be Jimi's child or not, she would not be
recognized as his sole heir.
So, that's what I know about Jimi's daughter. As for Jimi's son, here is
some information from Hendrix historian and author Tony Brown:
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11/27/42 Jimi Hendrix is born.
10/05/43 Eva Sundqvist Born, daughter of opera singer Erik Sundqvist
(died Spring 76) and wife Barbo.
Type '0' blood sample take from Jimi during his period with
the American army.
May 67 Eva Sundqvist student, exits a No10 tram at the Stureplan,
in Stockholm. A young man with indian looks asks her the way
to the Konserthuset. He tells her his name is Jimi Hendrix,
but she can't relate anything in particular to that name.
Several months later...
Eva is at a record shop on the Swedish west coast and buys
a record with Jimi's picture on it; thus recognizing this
man as the one she had spoken with in Stockholm in May. And
so, she starts getting into the music.
09/04/67 Two concert appearances at Grona Lund in Stockholm: Prior to
the gigs, Eva sent a letter and a rose and a request for
Jimi to play a certain song from his latest record. And so he
does as wished by "My Eve".
Jan 68 Goteborg. Hotel Opalen incident: After a quick trial, Jimi
pays 10,000 Swedish crowns to cover the damages.
01/08/68 Two concert appearances at the Konserthuset in Stockholm.
Prior to the gigs, Eva had sent a new letter and another rose.
Jimi dedicates a whole concert to her, and her rose appears on
his guitar. After the gigs, Eva meets Jimi at the stage exit,
and together with some other musicians they go to the
restaurant Gyllene Cirkelen. And then later; to a party at TV
producer Peter Goldman's place.
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" "
" "I wrote many letters to him (Jimi) in London, but Jimi "
" never replied. But when one of his radio programs was "
" broadcast in Sweden, I heard how he occasionally sang "
" allusions to our mutual experiences. In another radio "
" program he dedicated a record to me..." "
" --Eva Sundqvist "
" "
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01/09/69 Two concert appearances at the Konserthuset in Stockholm.
More roses. Eva and her mother attend the first show, after
the second show Jimi and Eva go to his hotel, the Hotel
Carlton a female resale Journalist interviews Jimi in his
room. Jimi tells her that he had gotten flowers from a
Swedish girl. When Eva enters the room, Jimi says: "She (Eva)
gave me the flowers. The Journalist leaves at 00.30 and Jimi
and Eva are alone together till 05.30. Then Eva leaves the
hotel: Eva has made love for the first time. James Daniel
Sundqvist (Jimi Hendrix Jr.) is conceived
Thereafter: As soon as Eva learns she is pregnant, she writes to Jimi in
London. She gets no reply.
10/05/69 James Daniel Sundqvist is born in either Allmana BB (Public
Maternity Hospital) or in Soders Jukhuset (South Hospital).
After the birth of JDS, Eva decides not to reveal who the
farther is.
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" "
" "But I wrote his name on a piece of paper and put it in an "
" envelope, which only was permitted to be opened in case "
" something happened to me. I didn't want Jimi to have the "
" trouble a fatherhood would bring. My child welfare officers, "
" Agneta Gustavsson and Birgitta Dahlin, demanded finally that "
" I should tell them who the father was. Otherwise I would not "
" get any advance maintenance payment." "
" --Eva Sundqvist "
" "
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In that situation and after Hendrix's death, Eva goes to
lawyer Leif Silbersky to begin paternity proceedings.
09/31/70 Concert appearance at Grona Lund in Stockholm. Eva sees Jimi
at the Tivoli and Jimi asks "How is he (meaning the child).
Eva later states that Jimi was supposed to go home with her
to see his son, but Jimi couldn't get away from the "girl
fans and the journalists" thus Jimi never sees his son
before Jimi dies...
After Jimi's death:
Eva is interviewed by an English Sunday paper and she
"revealed" their "secret love" and "Little Jimi". She tells
the paper about love letters, how they met secretly in
Sweden or in other places in Europe, and that they had
planned that Jimi would come to Stockholm in autumn of 1970
to see his son.
Jan 72 Eva begins paternity case in Swedish district court.
Eva's lawyer is Leif Silbersky.
At some point:
Leo Branton, lawyer for the Jimi Hendrix estate, asks lawyer
Elin Lavritzen in Stockholm to speak for the Hendrix family
in the Swedish courts. A romantic girl's imaginations is the
defending side's Judgement of Eva's statement that Jimi was
the father of her son.
12/16/75 Swedish district court unanimously establishes James Daniel
Sundqvist as the son of Jimi Hendrix. According to Swedish
law, JDS is thus entitled to Jimi's whole inheritance.
American laws are different. Leif Silbersky will try to
negotiate a compromise.
Dec 75 Leo Branton states that under American law, JDS has no
chance of paternity or inheritance.
Dec 75 Al Hendrix sends a message to Leif Silbersky saying that JDS
has no chances of paternity or money.
Apr/May 76 Al Hendrix changes his mind and decides to acknowledge the
legitimacy of JDH without American Judicial proof. Al
guarantees a monthly support and wants Eva and son to visit
the Hendrix family in America.
The week prior to 30 Sept 76:
Swedish court of appeals unanimously upholds Dec 75
judgement of the district court. A female Journalist gives
witness to the events of 09 Jan 69, paternity papers are
finally granted. Despite Al Hendrix's change Of hearten no
money has yet been forth coming, Leif Silbersky to
negotiate, the Hendrix family could demand that the case is
taken to the Swedish supreme court. Eva is afraid to go to
America with her son as she's certain he will become a
kidnapping target/victim. She is further afraid of going to
any big cites outside Of Sweden.
15 Aug 77 Swedish supreme court rules in favor of Eva Sundqvist;
although among other things, the court acknowledges that
there doesn't seem to be any (written':') statement from
Jimi that he has ever even know Eva Sundqvist.
Dec 78 Leif Silbersky, Leo Branton and the Hendrix family agree
that Jimi Jr. and Eva get 4 million Swedish kroner (nearly 1
million, American dollars).
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" "
" "I wrote to Jimi immediately after the birth telling "
" him he had become a father. I also send him some photos. "
" After his death, they found the photos of our son. I re- "
" fused to reveal the father of my child. I didn't want to "
" disturb Jimi. I understood that he never had time to write "
" to me. But he answered in his own way; through his songs. "
" Jimi, died on September 18, 1970. I didn't hear the news "
" until the day after. My mother served me breakfast in bed. "
" Without her saying a word I knew what had happened. In the "
" night I had been feeling sad. Many hours I sat and sang our "
" songs. I knew that something dreadful had happened."Without "
" 'Little Jimi' I wouldn't have won 'the bat tle. It was "
" several months before I could listen to a song. I'll never "
" meet anyone like Jimi again. On the other hand, I don't know "
" if we could have lived together. But we planned that 'Little "
" Jimi' and I would move over to him in London or New York. "
" Perhaps love is a bit unreal. I was 10 years older than the "
" usual fans. I didn't like Jimi because he was famous and "
" rich. If we get any money, I will donate it to a scholarship "
" fund. 'Little Jimi' and I manage on my salary. But one thing "
" no one can take away from me: the memory of the times we "
" were together, even if it was just a couple Of hours." "
" --Eva Sundqvist "
" "
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Eva Sundqvist has a Bachelor of Arts degree. When Jimi
Jr was younger, Eva worked at a data firm. She currently
works at home (to be closer to Jimi Jr,) with 'market
research'.
--Tony Brown
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Who inherits?
My understanding, which is certainly not confirmed, is that Al is leaving
everything to Janie. As for Leon, like Jimi's kids, and Lucille, he is out
in the cold. I do believe Leon took the $1 million offered to him by Alan
Douglas and Leo Branton. It might be too late now for Leon to get anything.
If Al did leave everything to Janie in his Will, then he would have to draw
up a new one if for some strange reason he doesn't want Janie to get it
all. I should point out, from all accounts, Al loves Janie very much, and
he is not going to look at her the way some do. To Al, Janie is his loving
daughter, and with that in mind, there is no reason for him not to leave
her everything.
In closing, I think its pretty ironic that Jimi's sister by marriage runs
the show, yet Jimi's flesh and blood children are out in the cold. I don't
believe either child is recognized by the family, but I could be wrong.
Pretty sad if you ask me. Just two more people in the long line of those
wronged, in my opinion, by the current administration.
--Vic Lewin
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# The saddest part of the story, of course, is that Jimi didn't have #
# the time here, on this plane, to get to know his kids. That Jimi #
# would have eventually recognized his offspring is, IMO, certain. #
# Jimi just had to big a heart to let any kid, especially his own, #
# not know his Dad. Jimi's experiance with his Mom would also have #
# accelerated his desire to not let his own kids live with that kind #
# of vacuum in their lives. --W #
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Tony Brown
Jimi Hendrix had at least two children.
One is a girl born around 1966. Her name is Tamika Laurence James. I
believe her mother is from Minnesota and Jimi met her in New York. I am a
bit fuzzy on the daughter, but I believe this is correct. (The following is
taken from court records.)
Filed in New York Surrogates court, re The Estate of James M. Hendrix, on
November 18, 1971, an application was commenced by Al Hendrix, who claimed
to be his distributee, for payment of part of his distributive share of the
estate. A guardian ad litem appeared for an infant and opposed the petition
on the ground that the infant, not father, was sole distributee of the de-
ceased. The Surrogate's court held that statute providing that the child
is the legitimate child of father so that he and his issue inherit from
father if court, during lifetime of father, has made order of filiation
declaring paternity in proceeding instituted during pregnancy of mother or
within two years from birth of child does not result in discrimination
constituting denial of equal protection of law to an illegitimate child.
And if you understood that, I congratulate you!! HAHAHAHAHA
Seriously though, the decision goes on to state that the court also held
that where deceased had not acknowledged paternity of his allegedly
illegitimate child and no order of filiation declaring paternity had been
instituted during deceased's lifetime, infant was not a distributee of
deceased and lacked status to oppose application made by deceased's father.
Basically, what the court said was that since Jimi did not acknowledge
the child was his and no paternity proceeding was held during the pregnancy
or within two years from the birth of the child, the child was not re-
cognized as being an heir of Jimi and thus lacked any standing to oppose
Al's application to receive proceeds from the Estate.
If I also remember right, Jimi had asked Henry Steingarten to take care
of this and I believe Jimi was going to acknowledge that the child was his.
This was a few weeks before he died. So, the acknowledgment never happened.
Back to the decision; it states that Jimi died without leaving a will.
The decision states that the assets of the estate are in excess of
$400,000. The administrator of the Estate consented to the advance payment
to Al. Certain creditors appeared to oppose the petition as well.
So, Tamika James' lawyer argued that the advance payment should not be
made as to Al as she is the sole heir, not Al. Her lawyer recognizes that
Tamika's mother and Jimi were never married and no paternity proceedings
occurred. It is also alleged that Jimi lived with the mother for some time
prior to the child's birth, but not thereafter. I believe Jimi had just
gone to London before Tamika was born. A lawyer representing the mother
tried for sometime to have Jimi recognize Tamika as his daughter. Most
likely because by this time, Jimi had hit the big time. Jimi had not
recognized paternity before he died.
The court then states there is no proof that Tamika is Jimi's child and in
order to establish this, a filiation hearing would have to be held and if
she was recognized as Jimi's child, then she could only succeed if a
statute, known as Children Out-of-Wedlock, formerly known as Bastards, was
declared unconstitutional. I believe it is the Fourteenth Amendment to the
U.S. Constitution.
So, the court decided to look at the unconstitutionality of the statute.
If the statute was not unconstitutional, then it wouldn't matter if Tamika
was found to be Jimi's daughter or not. If, however, the statute was un-
constitutional, then the hearing into the paternity of the child would be
held and if Tamika was found to be Jimi's daughter, she would be his sole
heir and Al's petition would fail.
The court cites a number of case law and concludes that the New York
statute requiring a reasonable substantiation of the claim of paternity
does not impose an improper condition and does not result in a discrim-
ination constituting a denial of equal protection of the law to an il-
legitimate. It is held that the infant has not established that she is a
distributee of deceased and, as a consequence, she lacks status to oppose
the petition.
In other words, the statute was not found to be unconstitutional, and
whether Tamika was ever proven to be Jimi's child or not, she would not be
recognized as his sole heir.
So, that's what I know about Jimi's daughter. As for Jimi's son, here is
some information from Hendrix historian and author Tony Brown:
+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
Who inherits?
My understanding, which is certainly not confirmed, is that Al is leaving
everything to Janie. As for Leon, like Jimi's kids, and Lucille, he is out
in the cold. I do believe Leon took the $1 million offered to him by Alan
Douglas and Leo Branton. It might be too late now for Leon to get anything.
If Al did leave everything to Janie in his Will, then he would have to draw
up a new one if for some strange reason he doesn't want Janie to get it
all. I should point out, from all accounts, Al loves Janie very much, and
he is not going to look at her the way some do. To Al, Janie is his loving
daughter, and with that in mind, there is no reason for him not to leave
her everything.
In closing, I think its pretty ironic that Jimi's sister by marriage runs
the show, yet Jimi's flesh and blood children are out in the cold. I don't
believe either child is recognized by the family, but I could be wrong.
Pretty sad if you ask me. Just two more people in the long line of those
wronged, in my opinion, by the current administration.
--Vic Lewin
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# #
# The saddest part of the story, of course, is that Jimi didn't have #
# the time here, on this plane, to get to know his kids. That Jimi #
# would have eventually recognized his offspring is, IMO, certain. #
# Jimi just had to big a heart to let any kid, especially his own, #
# not know his Dad. Jimi's experiance with his Mom would also have #
# accelerated his desire to not let his own kids live with that kind #
# of vacuum in their lives. --W #
# #
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8 and tell the child to bury Daddy's old clothes." 8
8 --J.H. 8
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