New York Daily News

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Prison inmate: I’m Prince’s love child – now gimme his $300 million estate

- BY NANCY DILLON and JASON SILVERSTEI­N ndillon@nydailynew­s.com

AN ASPIRING rapper demanding the first court-ordered DNA test to prove he’s Prince’s son is a former crack dealer.

Carlin Williams was convicted of traffickin­g crack cocaine at 25 and possessing more crack two years later, court records unearthed by the Daily News revealed.

Williams, 39, is serving a seven-year sentence in a federal prison in Florence, Colo., for packing a .32-caliber semiautoma­tic pistol as a convicted felon.

In court papers filed Monday, amid reports about Prince’s $300 million fortune, he claimed he is Prince’s biological son. Williams said a judge should set aside the probate filing by the platinum-selling star’s siblings pending a genetic test.

His mom, Marsha Henson, filed a supporting affidavit claiming she met Prince in the lobby of the Crown Center Hotel in Kansas City, Mo., in July 1976. She said they drank wine together before having unprotecte­d sex at the nearby Midwest Hotel. Henson claimed she was celibate in the six weeks before their lusty liaison and throughout the pregnancy before Williams’ birth in April 1977.

Prince would have been 18 at the time, fresh out of high school and several years away from superstard­om. His debut album, “For You,” did not come out until 1978.

Patrick Cousins, the Palm Beach lawyer behind the paternity claim, worked with Prince for several years in the 2000s and said that led Williams to contact him.

Cousins declined to comment on the paternity claim, citing pending litigation, but said Williams reached out to him several years ago saying he believed Prince was his father.

At the time, Cousins said he “could not corroborat­e” what Williams told him.

Williams, a Kansas City native, recorded rap songs under the name Prince Dracula before his latest conviction. His web pages are filled with claims of his Prince-ly heritage, even though Prince’s middle name, Rogers, is often misspelled on them.

“I am Prince (rodger nelson) aka Prince The Singer’s Son,” one Prince Dracula page says.

A 2014 sentencing document linked to Williams said his father “had no presence at all in his life.”

It said he was “primarily raised by his grandmothe­r, an indication that his mother was not a stable parent at that time.”

Reached by The News Tuesday and asked if her grandson might be Prince’s heir, Mildred Williams said, “I’ve got nothing to say. I don’t know.”

Prince died at his Paisley Park complex April 21 in Chanhassen, Minn. He was 57. The cause has yet to be determined. He left no will, according to his family, and had no known surviving children. His son Boy Gregory died a week after his birth in 1996.

 ??  ?? One-night stand between Prince and a Kansas City woman resulted in con Carlin Williams (inset), he claims.
One-night stand between Prince and a Kansas City woman resulted in con Carlin Williams (inset), he claims.

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