lifestyle THURSDAY, MAY 12, 2016 Music & Movies Inmate says he’s Prince’s son and heir 39-year-old inmate has said that he is the son of pop icon Prince, seeking a DNA test that could make him Aheir to the late singer’s storied estate. A lawyer for Carlin Q. Williams, who is from Kansas City, lodged an objection to a court filing by Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson who said the singer had no children. Williams is serving a sentence for gun posses- sion in a stolen car and is not due to leave the high-security federal prison in Florence, Colorado until late 2020. His mother, Marsha Henson, submitted a sworn statement saying that she met the singer-whose full name is Prince Rogers Nelson-at a Kansas City hotel in July 1976. The two drank and then he took her to his room at the now defunct Midwest Hotel where they had unprotected sex, she said. The lawyer requested a DNA test to determine whether Prince was the father of Williams. The petition claims that Williams “believes he is or may be the sole surviving legal heir” of the music legend, who died suddenly at age 57 on April 21 without leaving any known will. A 2014 court document on Williams’ sentencing said that he had a troubled childhood and wrote: “His father had no pres- ence at all in his life.” The sentencing memorandum said that Williams had seven half-siblings and that he dropped out of This undated booking photo released by Missouri Prince’s sister Tyka Nelson, center, leaves the Carver County Justice Center in Chaska with her husband Maurice school in 10th grade before being convicted on drug offenses. Department of Corrections shows Carlin Q Williams. Philips in Chaska, Minn. — AP The extent of Prince’s fortune remains unclear but it is likely to be considerable as the acclaimed artist had sold more than 100 implied agreement with Prince in 1994. In a filing unusual by Park estate the morning of his death on April 21 with test painkillers in Prince’s possession after his death, officials said. A million records. An heir would also have control over Prince’s legal standards, Dixon quoted an interview by Prince in which results, the document obtained by the Los Angeles Times medical examiner has said full results of a post-mortem exami- legendary vault at his Paisley Park estate near Minneapolis, the singer said “I am music.” “If Prince is music, and the music showed Tuesday. nation could take several weeks to obtain, although the Carver which is said to hold massive amounts of unreleased material. he had left when he died is a representation of himself, and Prince, 57, had already been pronounced dead by the time County Sheriff’s office said there was no sign of trauma or evi- Prince’s sister and five living half-siblings have been named that is all that is left upon his departure, then he made his ‘will’ the physician arrived after the musician was found collapsed in dence of suicide. Police were investigating the scene of Prince’s as heirs and assigned a special administrator to handle his known on television,” Dixon said. an elevator. The warrant does not say what Schulenberg pre- death again early Wednesday morning. “Detectives are revisit- estate. Prince had a son in 1996 with his then wife, dancer scribed, for what ailment or whether Prince took the drugs, ing the scene at Paisley Park as a component of a complete Mayte Garcia, but the boy died a week later from a rare condi- Doctor prescribed Prince medication before death from a prescription to be filled at a Walgreens pharmacy. investigation,” the Carver County Sheriff’s office tweeted, tion. Williams is not the only person who is seeking a slice of Investigators in Minnesota have questioned a doctor who The police also conducted another search of the pop star’s adding that no other information was available. — AFP Prince’s estate. A California man named Rodney Herachio prescribed medication for Prince during the weeks before he Minneapolis home and seized medical records from the hospi- Dixon has said that he should hold the rights to all of Prince’s died, a police search warrant shows. Michael Schulenberg, a tal where Schulenberg worked, it shows. The cause of death is intellectual property plus $1 billion-an amount that few local family practice doctor, had treated the musician twice, still unknown, and investigators are examining whether he believe the singer had. Dixon said he had reached a verbal and including the day before he died, and showed up at his Paisley died of an opioid overdose. Authorities found prescription In this Wednesday, May 11, 2011 file photo, Moldovan band Zdob si Zdub performs the song ‘So Lucky’ during the rehearsal for the second semifinal of In this Wednesday, May 20, 2015 file photo, Sweden’s Mans Zelmerlow performs the song the Eurovision Song Contest in Duesseldorf, Germany. — AP photos ‘Heroes’ during a dress rehearsal for the second semifinal of the Eurovision Song Contest in Austria’s capital Vienna. Duel between Russia and Ukraine marks 60 years of Eurovision ill it be a fierce musical duel between strangers are coming/They come to your will be transmitted live in the US by Logo, a chan- geopolitical foes Russia and Ukraine? Or is house/They kill you all/And say/We’re not nel aimed at the lesbian, gay, bisexual and trans- Wit at last France’s turn to melt hearts-albeit guilty/Not guilty,” the lyrics begin. gender community. Eurovision has for decades singing in English-at the Eurovision Song Contest Russian officials and some politicians in Crimea been a hugely popular event in gay circles, to the in Stockholm on Saturday? The familiar “Good have complained that the song was intended to extent that the only flags authorized in the venue evening Europe!” will once again bring former denigrate Russia. But the Geneva-based organizers during the broadcast are those of the UN member rivals and allies together in the annual celebration decided the song was not in breach of the compe- states, the European Union and the rainbow flag. of weirdness, glamour and music, as Eurovision tition’s rules against political speech. “Musicians The flag rule became a source of controversy this marks its 60th birthday. should express their feelings, their real feelings, not year when Palestinians, Welsh, Basques and even After bearded Austrian drag queen Conchita sing meaningless words like we hear all the time,” the Nordic-Russian Sami realized their flags were In this Tuesday, May 12, 2009 file photo, Czech Republic’s band Gipsy.cz performs during Wurst won the 2014 edition, Swede Mans said the artist, defending the song in Stockholm. on Eurovision’s black list, together with the flag of the Eurovision Song Contest’s first semi-final at the Olympic Stadium in Moscow, Russia. Zelmerlow brought the competition to Stockholm But the Moscow-Kiev duel could yet have its spot- the Islamic State. for the sixth time by winning last year, closing in on light stolen by another gamblers’ favorite, French- Eventually the European Broadcasting Union Ireland’s record of seven wins. A cast of hopeful Israeli Amir Haddad, who will represent France with relaxed its rule by allowing “national, regional and artists from 42 countries will be reduced to 26 by upbeat tune “J’ai cherche”. The handsome 31-year- local flags of participants, for example the Welsh Thursday evening, after semifinals in which the old dental surgeon is trying to charm other nations and Sami ones.” Native people of the Nordic coun- only ones exempt are hosts Sweden and the con- with an unusual trick in a French performance- tries and Russia, the Sami will be represented at the test’s biggest sponsors Germany, Spain, France, singing partly in English. Should he succeed, he contest by Norwegian Agnete who wants to bring Italy and the UK. Eurovision officially aims to be a would be the first French performer to win the con- her ethnicity’s flag to the stage. Up until now the song contest free of politics-but few believe that, test in nearly 40 years. competition’s winner has usually been clear long and this year looks to be no exception. before the lengthy tally of points from different Betting shops anticipate an arm-wrestling Controversy with flags countries was over. This year, to save some of the match between Russia and Ukraine, currently torn Since its inception in Switzerland deep in the spice till the end, organizers decided to change the apart by the conflict that began with Russia’s Cold War in 1956, Eurovision has tried to bring uni- tally so that results from the national juries will be annexation of Crimea in 2014. The duel could turn ty to quarrelling European nations. At the same announced first, and the less predictable television fierce as Ukraine’s contestant Susana Jamaladinova time, it has always been a reflection of nationalistic viewers’ votes will be revealed last. — AFP is set to perform her contentious song “1944”, rivalries. “Eurovision is the celebration of all (of) which recounts Stalin’s deportation of Crimean Europe”, intoned Hanna Stjarne, the chief executive Tatars. The 32-year-old jazz singer-songwriter of Sweden’s public broadcasting company SVT. known as Jamala was said to have been inspired by “Europe is going through a bad moment, it is divid- the memories of her great grandmother, who was ed, but thanks to Eurovision people can come In this Wednesday, May 15, 2013 file photo, Cezar of Romania performs his song “It’s My deported from the peninsula with her five children together with a sparkle in their eye,” she told AFP.