Scammers targeted the late rocker Prince's estate claiming they represented his secret love child...
From Radar Online
Sinister scammers are making a play for late music legend Prince's $156million estate, and tried to con RadarOnline.com into backing their wild story – but our reporters saw through the scheme and have reported it to law enforcement.
The ruse centers on a bogus claim that the Purple Rain rocker, born Prince Rogers Nelson, fathered an illegitimate daughter named Alli Cazaam Nelson on October 31, 2009 – about seven years before his 2016 fentanyl overdose death at 57 at his Paisley Park mansion in Minnesota.
A RadarOnline.com search has revealed that no one with that name was born on that date. According to an email sent to RadarOnline.com on September 21, the girl, who would now be 15, shunned the probate "circus" immediately following Prince's death because her attorneys felt a 7-year-old couldn't handle the drama.
The sources also suspiciously insisted official records proving her parentage were "legally shielded from probate proceedings" in Brooklyn, New York. The email also claimed Alli insisted she has proof of "a secret revocable trust," as well as a "charitable funding account," set up by Prince, who also supposedly provided the girl with two handpicked bodyguards.
The scammers even ginned up a phony New York City birth certificate, as well as an "unredacted" Minnesota Voluntary Recognition of Parentage application, in which Prince allegedly officially recorded his paternity.
"She is the rebirth of Prince," one message boasted before offering up an emailed photo of the girl as proof of the resemblance. "She looks, sings, plays, acts, and talks exactly like him."
But the scammers slipped up when they cited a life insurance policy naming the girl as heir to the artist's Prince Warner Media, LLC pension – because no such company exists.
They also identified a Minnesota lawyer as her counsel, but our calls to that person were never returned.
The fraudsters even rigged their tip to appear as if it was sent by a prominent New York City journalist. Fortunately, one of RadarOnline.com's reporters had worked closely with that scribe and was able to promptly call him.
The veteran reporter said he'd never emailed our tip line – and the address from which the message had originated wasn't his.
Additionally, he said his current media organization was contacted by the scammers, and reporters had also confirmed that the story was bogus.
New York defense attorney Pete Gleason called the fake Prince daughter plot an "incredibly sophisticated scam."
He added: "They spun a very powerful, plausible, and engaging tale and supported it with fake, yet official-looking documents. It's a good thing RadarOnline.com got to the bottom of the scam before they got any farther."
2 comments:
I thought it was really weird the way his sister and brother died so quickly after him leaving no heirs.
Amir Prince's ONLY son died in infancy
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