Jimi Hendrix: Posthumous Porn Star?

By Brennan Williams, BlackVoices.com

Hip-hop soul crooners R. Kelly and Ray J aren't the only black studs whose sex videos have seeped into public consciousness.

Late rock & roll icon Jimi Hendrix has allegedly joined the fray.

On May 6, Vivid Entertainment will release 'Jimi Hendrix The Sex Tape,' featuring clips of the 'Purple Haze' superstar engaged in various sexual acts with two brunettes.

In addition to the rock star's rare 11 minute performance, the leading adult entertainment studio tapped sexperts Pamela Des Barres, author of 'I'm with the Band: Confessions of a Groupie' and Cynthia Plaster Caster, who is famous for making plaster molds of the penises of rock stars, including Hendrix himself, to be featured in the project -- which was packaged as a documentary.

"I had never heard that he made porn films, which now I'm hearing he did more than once apparently," Plaster Caster told BlackVoices.com late last week in an interview.

"Vivid Entertainment called me in November saying that they had some footage they wanted me to look at and authenticate for them. And they were going to fly me out to New York just to do that," she further explained.

"But they wouldn't tell me what it was, because that would spoil the surprise...They put the DVD into the slots and the first thing I see is a very familiar long purple penis. And then it was starting to sink in. And just as I recognized it Jimi Hendrix's face came into the frame. I couldn't believe it."

Some things never change.

The 61 year-old had the opportunity to plaster cast the legend's goods (which she calls his "Hampton Wood") as one of the first in her collection of 65 casts.

"My role ironically became the mold maker. I initially started doing this in order to initiate sex, but it back-fired on me. I didn't get any action out of it, but I got to take the cast home."

Despite the ex-groupie's claims of Hendrix appearing in the sex tape, Experience Hendrix, the company that controls the rights to Hendrix's music and likeness, released a statement last week "[strongly disputing] the claimed authenticity and affirmatively state that Experience Hendrix is neither involved in, nor have we authorized the distribution of this film."

Vivid Entertainment co-chairman Steven Hirsch responded to the allegations saying Experience Hendrix's statement "is not in any way a refutation of the authenticity of 'Jimi Hendrix the Sex Tape.' 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."

So is the 40 year old footage real or fake?

Charles R. Cross, who is the author of the Hendrix biography 'Room Full of Mirrors,' previously told the Associated Press' he had seen the film and doubted the man is Hendrix. Saying the face and nostrils of the man in the video don't match the legendary guitarist.

"I'm 100% certain it's him, I recognize the cock!" Caster attested. "It was the cock I seen before it went into my mold. It was a very long cock with the same balls that I managed to capture. Those were the same as my plaster cast."

"Facially it looks like a squashed version of his facial features because the camera wasn't looking at him from eye level, it's at a weird angle," she added.

Caster also testified to the legendary myth of black men being more blessed than others: "That was the first thing I thought when I saw it. Yeah it seems to be true ... I think they all were pretty well packaged."

As far as giving up her career as being the queen of plastering sex organs, she has no plans on hanging up her molds anytime soon.

"I don't have any plans on retiring until my arms go limp," she added. "As long as they're talented rock stars willing to let a 61 year old recovering groupie cast their balls I'm there for them!"