Apr 29, 2008 12:00 pm US/Mountain
Alleged Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape Surfaces
Porn Outfit Says It Will Release Hotel Room Romp
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Jimi Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970. (File)
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Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape allegedly starring Jimi Hendrix.
The Los Angeles-based adult entertainment company said they obtained the footage of the music legend shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago from a memorabilia collector.
The 11 minutes of footage features Hendrix — or someone resembling him — engaging in various sexual acts with two women. The company said they consulted with several experts to authenticate the footage.
The DVD includes an interview with Cynthia Albritton better known as Cynthia Plaster Caster. Albritton, who as her name implies made plaster casts of rock star genitalia, told the New York Times that she was 100% sure it was Hendrix on the tape. The 60-year-old was compensated for the DVD interview, a company spokesman said.
Other experts, including a former girlfriend and a Hendrix biographer, say the man on the tape is someone else.
"It is not him," said Kathy Etchingham, 60, who dated Hendrix in the 1960s. "His face is too broad and nose and nostrils too wide for Jimi. Also the hair is too low on the forehead."
Etchingham also said that Hendrix would never have allowed himself to be filmed in the act, because he was very shy in private.
Author Charles R. Cross, who encountered the film during research for his Hendrix biography "Room Full Of Mirros," told the Times, "It doesn't add up to Jimi." Cross said that he had studied photos and film of Hendrix for years and he had never saw the guitarist wearing the rings the man in the film is wearing.
A spokesperson for the Hendrix estate declined comment to The ShowBuzz.
Hendrix died of a drug overdose in 1970. Seattle-based representatives for Hendrix's estate did not want to comment about the tape.
Vivid Entertainment was also responsible for the release of celebrity sex tapes starring Kim Kardahsian and Pamela Anderson.
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