A prison inmate claiming to be the firstborn son of pop icon Prince has emerged to lay claim on his stake of the late singer’s vast estate.
According to reports, Calvin Q. Williams of Missouri has filed papers with the courts demanding a DNA test in order to prove his father is really the music legend.
In the filings, which were obtained by the ABC in America, his mother Marsha Henson swore an affidavit saying she slept with Prince in July 1976 and gave birth to her son Calvin the following April.
On Friday, a judge ordered that the trust in charge of Prince’s estate make his blood available for the genetic test, and for any subsequent paternity claims.
Authorities have still not been able to locate a will since the singer’s death, meaning that the $300 million fortune is currently being fought over by Prince’s family.
Calvin claims the pop icon is his father.
However, if this paternity claim is proven true, Calvin would be entitled to his share of the estate before Prince’s siblings, as the law states that children are the first in line to inherit when there is no will present.
The alleged love child is currently serving a seven-year sentence in a maximum security federal prison after pleading guilty to unlawfully transporting a firearm in 2013.
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More than 700 people have so far come forward claiming to be related to the Purple Rain singer, but so far Calvin is the first to file a claim in court.
“Our phone has been ringing off the hook,” Harvey Morse, the man in charge of the official search for Prince’s relatives, told MailOnline.
“I would say we’ve received between 600 and 700 calls. They run the gamut, literally from, ‘We lived in the same area so we must be related,’ to ‘We have pictures of Prince at our family reunion.’”
In the absence of a will, Bremer trust will distribute the $300 million fortune among Prince’s six siblings, provided no love children are proved to be genuine.
The estate is estimated to contain an extra $100 million in potential future earnings from unreleased songs, and licencing deals.
