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DNA Tests Reveal That Prince Was Not the Father of a New Zealand Man

The tests are back and they're not purple.

The DNA tests for a New Zealand man whose mother claimed Prince was his father have returned negative.

Stuff.co.nz reports that the DNA Diagnostics Center, based in Ohio, says there was a zero per cent possibility that Prince was the father of Max Stacey McCormack.

Caren McCormack, of the small South Island town of Invercargill, claims to have had sex with the the pop star in 1976 – when she was 16-years-old and Prince was 17.

She says that Prince is the father of Max but there have long been doubts about McCormack's claims mainly due to the fact that Prince was completing study at Minneapolis Central High School in 1976.

Prince died at age 57 after an accidental drug overdose in April 2016. He has no known living children, having lost one child to a miscarriage and another who died a week after being born.

Since his death a number of false claims have been dismissed include imprisoned rapper Carlin Williams, who insisted Prince was his father, Claire Elisabeth Elliott, who says she married the singer in Las Vegas and around 700 people claiming to be the later singers half brother or sister.