New Book Claims Jimi Hendrix was Murdered

A new book written by a roadie for Jimi Hendrix claims the late rock icon was actually murdered by his manager, Michael Jeffrey, who told the author he plied Hendrix with pills and alcohol in order to kill him and collect on the guitarist's life insurance.  

In his book "Rock Roadie," James "Tappy" Wright claims that Jeffrey made the confession to him in 1971, two years before he was killed in a plane crash.      

 "I can still hear that conversation, see the man I'd known for so much of my life, his face pale, hand clutching at his glass in sudden rage," writes Wright in the book, according to Yahoo News.       

 Hendrix died in September 1970. His body was found in a room at London's Samarkand Hotel booked by Monika Dannemann, whom Hendrix had known for a matter of days. At the time of Hendrix's death, a coroner recorded an open verdict, stating that the cause was "barbiturate intoxication and inhalation of vomit."       

 
Jeffrey is quoted by Wright as telling him: "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 manager was allegedly worried that Hendrix was about to fire him. He had recently taken out a life insurance policy worth $2 million, with Jeffrey as beneficiary, reported Britain's Mail On Sunday.       

 
"I had to do it. Jimi was worth much more to me dead than alive," Jeffrey is quoted as telling Wright.

"That son of a b*tch was going to leave me. If I lost him, I'd lose everything."

 

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