Photo of Prince by Kevin Mazur
As the battle for Prince's estate wages on, a 39-year-old man in a Colorado federal prison says he is the late singer's son and has filed a paternity claim against his estate.
Carlin Q. Williams is currently at a Florence, Colorado, penitentiary serving a 92-month sentence for possession of a firearm by a felon, but he is originally from Missouri.
According to CBS News, Williams' mother, Marsha Henson, filed court documents on Monday with a statement claiming she had unprotected sex with Prince—pre-fame—in July 1976 in Kansas City.
Under Minnesota law, children are automatically first in line to inherit in the event someone dies without a will. And although lawyers are still searching, Prince had no known will.
This latest development comes as a Minnesota court determined last week that all possible heirs had been contacted and Prince's sister, Tyka Nelson, and her five half-siblings have been seeking their share of any available fortune.
Strange claims following a celebrity death are not unusual and this isn't the first since Prince died on April 21. Among them is a woman claiming to be his half-sister and a man saying he had verbal agreement with Prince in the mid-1990s giving him control of his entire music catalog.