Select documents filed by Prince estate claimants will be released to the public, as allowed by the Minnesota judge in charge of the legal proceedings pertaining to the late artist. The judge in charge is Carver County District Judge Kevin Eide, who ruled that the claims made by Prince's supposed relatives would be made available.
While the claims filed, including people who claimed to be a parent, a sibling, and a half-sibling amongst other relatives, will be made public, their social security numbers and birth certificates will be kept confidential. The order will be put into effect on July 11 according to Billboard.
Thus far, a sister as well as five half-siblings have been chosen to inherit parts of his estate, which is estimated to reach $300 million and above.
But not all claimants have been found to be legitimate, which was seen in the case of Carlin Q. Williams, whose claim to the late Prince’s estate was disproved by a DNA test. Williams claimed to be Prince’s biological son and had quite an elaborate story on how this was so.
According to Williams, in a story told to TMZ, his mother and Prince had had relations way back in 1976 and that he had always believed himself to be Prince’s biological son. The 39-year-old had even taken up a rap career when he was younger and had called himself “Prince Dracula.”
Williams has also been incarcerated throughout his claims to be the biological son of the star and conducted the DNA test while in a Colorado prison. The test returned with “0.0% chance” that Prince fathered Williams, who continues to serve an eight-year sentence for felony charges.
Despite the results on the DNA test, William’s mother, Marsha Henson, refuses to believe that Prince did not father her son.
