Hendrix: How experienced was he?
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Is the Jimi Hendrix sex tape real?
What happened
Vivid Entertainment is releasing a sex tape that allegedly features legendary guitarist Jimi Hendrix. The adult entertainment company, which also released the Pamela Anderson and Tommy Lee sex tape, claims to have obtained the Hendrix film from a memorabilia collector. The 11 minutes of footage was supposedly shot in a hotel room about 40 years ago, and shows Hendrix—or a look-alike—participating in sexual acts with two women. (AP)
What the commentators said
There’s a good chance that the Jimi Hendrix sex tape is a fake, said Mireya Navarro and Jeff Leeds in The New York Times. “The identity of the man in the film” has been “fiercely disputed by experts and former associates,” and it “arrives on the heels of a string of hoaxes involving star look-alikes.” It’s also been dismissed by Hendrix collectors and historians.”
This may quiet “all the people out there who think modern-day celebs are responsible for the downfall of modesty, said TampaBay.com’s blog The Juice. Just recently, a supposed Marilyn Monroe sex tape surfaced, and now one of Jimi Hendrix. And although the man’s face in the Hendrix film “is only seen for a few seconds,” he is “wearing the familiar bandanna and Afro, so that solves the case, doesn’t it?”
Well, “there are frequent glimpses of his hands, with many large rings on his fingers, said David Usborne in The Independent. “Hendrix liked to wear rings, so maybe it really is him.” But “if Hendrix is turning in his grave, he should know that the club of dead icons big enough to warrant a posthumous skin flick is tiny.” He “should be flattered, whether or not the man in the film is him.”
