Report: Ruling Freezes Brother Out Of JIMI HENDRIX's Estate

June 7, 2007

Washington's The Bellingham Herald reports that the state Supreme Court on Wednesday declined to review the King County Superior Court case in which Jimi Hendrix's half-brother Leon Hendrix challenged his father's will leaving control of the multimillion-dollar estate to his stepsister, Janie Hendrix.

"What this means is it's done," said Janie Hendrix's attorney, John Wilson.

When Jimi Hendrix died without a will in 1970, his estate went to his father, Al Hendrix. When Al Hendrix died, he left control of the estimated $80 million estate to his adopted daughter Janie Hendrix, and he cut Leon Hendrix and several other relatives out of the will. Al Hendrix had adopted Janie as a child after he married her mother.

Leon Hendrix and several other Hendrix relatives filed a lawsuit in King County Superior Court seeking to wrest control of the estate from Janie.

Leon Hendrix's lawyers claimed that Janie Hendrix schemed for years to have Leon cut from their father's will, taking advantage of Al Hendrix's poor health, poor reading skills and naivete to have Leon excised.

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