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Eva Sundquist

Eva Sundquist of Sweden was born circa 1950. She was in a relationship with Jimi Hendrix beginning 1968 and they later separated in 1968. Eva Sundquist has a child James Daniel Sundquist. Family, friend, or fan, this family history biography is for you to remember Eva Sundquist .

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Eva Sundquist was born, raised and spent her entire life in Sweden. She is known for dating American guitarist, Jimi Hendrix. Hendrix and Eva first met on a tram when "The Experience", his band, was playing in Stockholm in 1968. A year later, when the band returned to Stockholm in January 1969, they again "connected" and Eva claimed that night lead to the birth of James Daniel on the 5th of October 1969, nine months later. James Daniel was born in Stockholm, Sweden and at the time of his birth, Eva refused to add the father's name to his birth certificate telling child care authorities that the father was a "famous American". A year later, when Jimi Hendrix passed, she started to claim him as the father of her child. While a Swedish court later proclaimed that James Daniel was the son of Jimi, there was never a paternity test. There have been multiple articles written about James Jr.'s relationship to Jimi Hendrix and the lawsuit for his estate including Rolling Stone May 1994, Voodoo Child, and Suit seeks part of Jimi Hendrix estate to name a few. Not much is known about Eva's current whereabouts as she has tried to live a life out of the media. A March 2023 article updates the situation at Who is Eva Sundquist? .
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She is a Caucasian of Swedish heritage and a Swedish citizen.
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Eva Sundquist was born, raised and is spending her life in Sweden.
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She was a graduate in Nordic languages according to an article in The Guardian Newspaper (London, England) called Voodoo Child.
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Eva never served in the military.
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She is known as being the mother of Jimi Hendrix Jr. and for the lawsuit that came after Jimi Hendrix Sr.'s death for his estate.
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5 Memories, Stories & Photos about Eva

Kathy Pinna

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05/05/2023

Who is Eva Sundquist?

Where is Jimi Hendrix’s partner now?

Eva Sundquist was the partner of Jim Hendrix. Eva Sundquist’s Partner Hendrix was an American guitarist, singer, and songwriter. Despite the fact that his mainstream career lasted only four years, he is widely regarded as one of the most influential electric guitarists in popular music history, as well as one of the most celebrated musicians of the twentieth century.

Eva Sundquist, Jimi Hendrix’s partner was born c. 1950 in Sweden. As of 2022, she is 72 years old. We know that Eva Sundquist had been residing in Sweden. According to her family tree, Eva was the mother of 1 child. Eva’s partner was Jimi Hendrix 1968 and they later separated in 1968. They had a child James Daniel Sundquist.

How did Eva Sundquist and Jimi Hendrix meet? Jimi Hendrix and Eva met on a tram when “The Experience” was playing in Stockholm in 1968. They met while riding a local tram and this was the beginning of their relationship. Jimi and Eva stayed in contact even after the end of his tour and he departed. When the band returned to Stockholm in January 1969, they again connected and Eva claimed that the result was the birth of James Daniel on the 5th of October, nine months after his mother, Eva, hooked up with Hendrix in Stockholm, Sweden, and “had two complete intercourses,” as the Swedish judges put it. While a Swedish court later proclaimed that James Daniel was the son of Jimi, there was never a paternity test.

According to sources, Eva informed Jimi about his son’s pregnancy and birth. Jimi stated that he would meet his son upon his return to Stockholm in 1970. Despite promising to return to Sweden to meet his son, Jimi never got to meet him before his death. Though James Daniel never met his father, he did have the opportunity to meet his grandfather, James Allen Hendrix.

Following the death of Eva Sundquist’s partner, Jimi, in 1970, his father, James Allen Hendrix aka Al, inherited his son’s fortune and excluded other family members from it. Al was unconcerned about his son having a child, even if it was out of wedlock. Armed with a paternity judgment upheld by Swedish courts, Eva Sundquist’s son, Hendrix Jr. sought to inherit his father’s dispersed and bitterly contested estate, estimated to be worth at least $30 million, if not more than twice that. As a result, James Daniel eventually filed a lawsuit against his grandfather for failing to include him in his father’s will. He filed a case in Los Angeles Superior Court, claiming that he is the true heir to his father’s fortune rather than his grandfather. This battle dragged on for a long time because, while the court accepted James Daniel as Jimi’s son, no paternity tests were performed to confirm this. The story is from the May 19th, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone.

Is Eva Sundquist Still alive? Where is Eva Sundquist now? Is she still alive? Not much has been heard from Eva since. She has been living a very quiet life away from the media. If James Daniel Sundquist‘s mother is still alive Sundquist will be 72 years old now.

- Posted March 29, 2023

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Kathy Pinna

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05/24/2022

Rolling Stone May 1994

Hendrix Jr. Sues Jimi Estate - 24-year-old Swedish man claims to be the guitarist’s son, seeks inheritance

He can’t play the guitar or any other instrument, he only sings to himself, and he says he’s no big fan of the Jimi Hendrix Experience. Can this really be Jimi Hendrix’s son? “Ja,” answers Jimi Hendrix Jr., an unemployed 24-year-old Swede who shares the legendary guitarist’s African Cherokee looks. Armed with a paternity judgment affirmed by Swedish courts, Hendrix Jr. is seeking to inherit Hendrix’s scattered and bitterly contested estate, estimated to be worth at least $30 million – but possibly more than double that amount.

U.S. courts have recognized no heirs except Hendrix’s father, Al Hendrix, a retired Seattle gardener. When Jimi died from a sleeping-pill overdose in 1970, Al inherited both mastered and unmastered tapes, song copyrights and the rights to his superstar son’s image. In a lawsuit filed in March in California, Hendrix Jr. claims that Al, along with various lawyers and corporations, “maliciously” and “fraudulently” concealed the S wede’s status as the “exclusive” and “rightful heir.” Responds Al’s attorney, Yale Lewis: “[Al] Hendrix did not participate in a conspiracy to defraud anyone.” Lewis also says Hendrix Jr.’s claims – first filed in the mid-’70s in Sweden – are being brought too late.

Hendrix Jr. was born James Henrik Daniel Sundquist in October 1969 nine months after his mother, Eva, hooked up with Hendrix in Stockholm, Sweden, and “had two complete intercourses,” as the Swedish judges put it. (Hendrix first met Eva in 1968 and dedicated some performances to her, but apparently he never saw the child.)

Hendrix Jr.’s case thickens the legal haze surrounding Hendrix’s artistic corpus. In 1974, Al began signing away rights to his son’s musical legacy in a series of agreements with international corporations. In return, Al received a $50,000 annual stipend. But last year, the alder Hendrix filed a federal lawsuit alleging he was swindled. Al Hendrix and Hendrix Jr. are, in fact, suing some of the same defendants: estate lawyers and holding companies that handle Jimi Hendrix rights and royalties.

“I’m not angry with Al,” explains Hendrix Jr., who says he met his American grandfather on a visit to Seattle with his mom when he was 7 years old. “I just feel I’ve been treated unfairly. I want people to know that I am not a fake.” Hendrix Jr. was legally declared to be Hendrix’s son in 1975, even though no sample of the purported father’s blood was available. Today’s DNA-matching methods could decisively prove paternity but would require the exhumation of Hendrix’s body. “It’s a horrible thought,” says Hendrix Jr., “but if it’s the only way to find out what’s right or what’s wrong, then it can’t be avoided.”

This story is from the May 19th, 1994 issue of Rolling Stone. - written by Richard Leiby

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Lizzie Kunde

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09/09/2022

Voodoo Child

JIMI HENDRIX JUNIOR was born James Henrik Daniel Sundquist in Stockholm on October 5, 1969. His mother, a graduate in Nordic languages called Eva Sundquist, refused to give his father's name on the birth certificate. She told Swedish child-care authorities that he was a famous American, but nothing more. On September 18, 1970, Jim Hendrix asphyxiated after taking an overdose of sleeping pills in Notting Hill Gate. It was only after Hendrix's death that Eva claimed the child was his. She later told a British court that she "did not want to subject Jimi Hendrix to the inconvenience that the determination of paternity would have entailed". If so, her courtesy has proved extremely costly.

When Jimi Hendrix died, aged 27, he left behind his own considerable legend, a revolutionary guitar technique that still defies codification and copyists, a small personal fortune, an extremely messy personal life, and a complex tangle of business affairs. Lawyers began a probate of the estate, establishing the status and value of assets, so that they could be fairly distributed. Hendrix's father, James A Hendrix, better known as Al, laid claim to the estate as the closest surviving relative, But first, all outstanding claims had to be settled.

At this point, according to Alan Douglas, who has handled the distribution and marketing of the Hendrix back catalogue since 1983, Eva Sundauiet wrote repeatedly to Al Hendrix, asking that he acknowledge her son - his grandson so that he could benefit from a share in the assets. Al Hendrix, through his lawyer Leo Branton, refused. Eva, who was bringing up James on welfare payments, got legal aid and took the matter to court. Al Hendrix contested the suit in December 1975, on the basis of blood group, obstetric and circumstantial evidence, the court ruled in her favour.

Al Hendrix appealed; the case was referred to the Swedish Supreme Court. Eva's testimony makes poignant reading. She first saw Hendrix in May 1967: they exchanged glances as she alighted from a streetcar, and he boarded it. A few days later they met again, in the same part of Stockholm. Hendrix was on his first European tour; she "had no idea who he was". Later she found out, and sent him a rose and a love letter before watching him perform. She says he dedicated the concert to her.
Eva, a student in her late teens, developed a crush on the guitarist. But it seems unlikely that Hendrix, rapidly becoming one of the world's biggest- selling and highest-paid rock artists, gave her much thought. Her letters went unanswered, though she claimed, rather pathetically, that "he mentioned her name and related information in radio programmes".

Whatever, despite a brief meeting in 1963, it was not until January 10, 1969 that they first spent the night together, in Stockholm's Carlton Hotel. The court ruling states that: "A few American draft dodgers were also pre. sent that evening. Around half past midnight, Eva Sundquist and Jimi Hendrix were left alone. They then had two completed intercourses. Neither of them used any contraceptives." A month later, Eva learned she was pregnant. She told the court "she had never before had intercourse with any man". In August 1977, the Supreme Court upheld her claim on behalf of her son, and denied Al Hendrix leave to appeal.

Yet despite his public disavowal, Al Hendrix had earlier accepted James Sundquist as his own flesh and blood. A couple of years previously, before the court action, he had welcomed James and Eva when they flew to America, to spend a holiday at his home, in Seattle, Washington When asked about this, Al Hendrix, now in his seventies, freely admitted that Jimi Jr and Eva had stayed at his home. So why had he entertained them, If Jimi Jr. was not his grandson? "There is no admittance on my part. I have a lot of people come and stay in my place and they're no relation. I have a whole gang of grandkids." Is Jimi Jr one of them?" "I don't know," said Al Hendrix. "You better talk to my attorney." Yale Lewis, Al Hendrix's lawyer, did not return my calls.

- Published in The Guardian Newspaper (London, England) Jan 25, 1994

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Daniel Pinna

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09/09/2022

Suit seeks part of Jimi Hendrix estate

Man claims to be son of rock legend

A lawsuit seeking a share of Jimi Hendrix's estate has been filed by a man who contends he is the son of the rock legend, who died in 1970. James Sundquist filed the lawsuit Tuesday in Los Angeles Superior Court against Hendrix's father, James "Al" Hendrix of Seattle. Sundquist claims to be the offspring of a 1969 union between Jimi Hendrix and Eva Sundquist while Hendrix was on tour in Stockholm. A Swedish court upheld his claim in 1975 despite objections from Al Hendrix, he said.

The lawsuit alleges that Al Hendrix and his lawyers concealed Sundquist's right to a share of the estate of Jimi Hendrix, a Seattle native who transformed rock guitar with fluid riffs and then-revolutionary use of feedback. Brisk trade continues in his recordings, and several have been released since his death. Sundquist is asking the court for a ruling that he is entitled to the estate, an accounting of profits from Hendrix's music since his death, and unspecified compensatory and punitive damages on allegations of fraud and concealment.

Hendrix declined comment on the case. His own lawsuit over handling of his son's estate is pending in federal court.
Hendrix's attorney, Yale Lewis, also declined comment, saying he had not received a copy of Sundquist's complaint.
Also named as defendants are Hendrix's longtime attorney, Leo Branton, Hendrix estate executors Kenneth Hagood and Henry Steingarten and a handful of companies believed to hold the rights to Jimi Hendrix's works.

Sundquist contends Branton and Al Hendrix told him and his mother that the estate was broke and any claim would fail.
Hendrix died in London on Sept. 18, 1970, when he was 27. A pathologist concluded at the time that Hendrix choked after drinking wine and taking an overdose of barbiturates. A recent bid to reopen the case was rejected this week by British authorities.

In the three years before his death, he had four hit albums: "Electric Ladyland," "Axis: Bold as Love," "Smash Hits" and "Are You Experienced?" The Hendrix legacy is reported to be worth tens of millions of dollars.
Rights to it are fragmented among several record and publishing companies.

- The preceding appeared in The news Tribune in Tacoma Washington on Thursday March 10th 1994:

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