It's great to see the 'Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape' soap-opera developing into a full-on slanging match.
After Vivid Entertainment released the tape, Experience Hendrix, the family company controlling the Hendrix estate run by Jimi's sister Janie, was quick to announce it as fake.Now Vivid Entertainment has challenged the family to prove it is a fake, and has offered up $100,000 they can prove it.
The Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape features an alleged Jimi Hendrix filmed with two women more than 40 years ago.
Experience Hendrix say the tape is faked and that Vivid is cashing in on the name but Vivid CEO is now putting his money where his mouth is. "The press release/statement from Experience Hendrix proves nothing," Stephen Hersh of Vivid says. "Vivid took considerable time and spent a substantial sum of money to authenticate the footage and we are very comfortable that this is the real thing. We believe that those who say otherwise are relying on their emotions to make unsubstantiated claims. If Experience Hendrix can prove definitively that it's not Jimi Hendrix on this footage then we will pay them $100,000."
Vivid has dug up Jimi's old tour manager Neville Chesters for a comment. Chester's says, "I'm positive that we are viewing the real Jimi Hendrix. We were all jealous of Jimi's sex life at the time and we were accustomed to seeing him frequently go to his room at night with an entourage of women we called his 'Band of Gypsys,' the same name of his 1969 recording."
He added, ""The late Sixties were socially, sexually and politically charged times. The footage in the Vivid movie looks as if it was shot in about 1968. It would have been difficult to get explicit film processed commercially in the U.S. back then, no less of a bi-racial sex act. So this film was probably developed in Germany and kept hidden because of how incendiary its release could have been."
The Jimi Hendrix Sex Tape was released in the USA this week.
