Jimi Hendrix killed by his manager?
Jimi Hendrix was murdered by his manager Michael Jeffrey for insurance money, according to a new book called Rock Roadie by Hendrix’s roadie James “Tappy” Wright.
The Independent is reporting that in the new book Wright wrote about the conversation he had with Jeffrey on the night that Hendrix died at the Samarkand Hotel in London. He recalled that Jeffrey said “I had to do it, Tappy. You understand, don’t you? I had to do it. You know damn well what I’m talking about.” What Jeffrey was referring to was the chance to collect up to $2 million on a life insurance policy that he had taken out for Hendrix.
Wright continued that Jeffrey confessed to the murder when he said “I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive. That son of a bitch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I’d lose everything.” Wright also claims Jeffrey told him how he committed the murder. “I was in London the night of Jimi’s death and together with some old friends… we went round to Monika’s hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth… then poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe.”
The autopsy on Hendrix said that he died from a barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit but John Bannister was the surgeon who worked on Hendrix at the hospital and reported a different cause of death. “I recall vividly the very large amounts of red wine that oozed from his stomach and his lungs and in my opinion there was no question that Jimi Hendrix had drowned, if not at home then on the way to the hospital,” he wrote in 1992.
Now if this story is actually true then justice cannot be sought because two years after Hendrix died, Jeffrey died in a plane crash. And if this story is true then may Michael Jeffrey burn in hell.
