The family of Jimi Hendrix, who have said the man in Vivid's new "Jimi Hendrix: The Sex Tape," ain't him, are now being offered $100,000 to prove it isn't him by Vivid.

Of course, usually it's a positive that's supposed to be proven and not a negative, but whatevs. Experience Hendrix, LLC issued a statement to the press last week essentially dismissing the tape as a phony. Hendrix's brother Leon has also publicly questioned the tape's authenticity. Vivid boss Steven Hirsch doesn't care.

"The statement from Experience Hendrix proves nothing," said Vivid co-chairman Steven Hirsch. "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. We believe that those who say otherwise are relying on their emotions to make unsubstantiated claims. If Experience Hendrix can prove definitively that it's not Jimi Hendrix on this footage then we will pay them $100,000."

Vivid's account is corroborated by former Hendrix roadie Neville Chesters, who says he was jealous of Hendrix always bagging broads, but as far as we know, never fucked him. Chesters has a complex theory of why the tape was never seen before. "The footage in the Vivid movie looks as if it was shot in about 1968. It would have been difficult to get explicit film processed commercially in the U.S. back then, no less of a bi-racial sex act. So this film was probably developed in Germany and kept hidden because of how incendiary its release could have been," Chesters has said through Vivid.

Cynthia Plaster Caster who made a mold of Hendrix's baby-maker also says it's him in the video. "No one can pay me any amount of money to say I saw something I didn't see," she told Vivid last week. "Judging from having cast Jimi, in addition to looking at some old photos of him recently, I'm convinced that he is indeed the man seen in this film."

Kathy Etchingham, a former girlfriend of Hendrix says it ain't him. With all this back and forth, we don't know what to think except that it's kind of a shame to sell sex videos of dead people.

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