Dusty Ayres
Commodore
The history-changing headline might actually be true. In a new book entitled Rock Roadie, an aide to Jimi Hendrix’ manager Michael Jeffrey claims that an intoxicated Jeffrey confessed to killing Hendrix, in order to cash in on a £1.2 million insurance policy, while paranoid that Hendrix was planning to fire him.
As The Independent reports, James “Tappy” Wright explains in his new book that Jeffrey confessed to the crime in 1971: “…We went ’round to Monika’s hotel room, got a handful of pills and stuffed them into his mouth,” Jeffrey is quoted as saying. “Then [we] poured a few bottles of red wine deep into his windpipe… 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.”
Holy Shit, Jimi Hendrix Was Murdered