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Jan 24, 2012 · Minnesota Fats’ widow said Tuesday that James and Mr. Fats met about 20 years ago, and he told her he was not her father. James died last week and she never knew her father but believed that...
Jan 25, 2012 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The widow of billiards legend Minnesota Fats said Tuesday her husband always denied that he was the father of singer Etta James. James died last week in Riverside, Calif.,...
Jamesetta Hawkins was born on January 25, 1938, in Los Angeles, California, to Dorothy Hawkins, who was 14 at the time. Although her father has never been identified, [10] James speculated that she was the daughter of pool player Rudolf "Minnesota Fats" Wanderone, whom she met briefly in 1987. [11]
Jan 24, 2012 · NASHVILLE, Tenn. — The widow of billiards legend Minnesota Fats said Tuesday her husband always denied that he was the father of singer Etta James. James died last week in Riverside,...
Jan 13, 2019 · The Minnesota Fats character in The Hustler, the novel by Walter Tevis, was based on Wanderone. Rudolf Wanderone was born in 1913. Rudolf Wanderone was married twice. Rudolf Wanderone had no children. Rudolf Wanderone had only one child, the famous rhythm and blues singer Etta James.
Fats had no known children. Singer Etta James said she believed that he was her biological father, having reportedly been told that by her mother as well as by others who knew her mother and whom James described as "people who were there and should know". [40] However, there is no published evidence of such a relationship.
Jan 20, 2012 · In her autobiography, James says she was convinced that her father was Minnesota Fats, the famous pool hustler but, "I didn't have the courage, or means, to confront him".
Jan 21, 2012 · She never knew her father, but thought that he might have been the famous white pool player, Rudolf “Minnesota Fats” Wanderone, whom she met in the nineteen-eighties.
Jul 13, 2017 · She didn’t know her father, but believed throughout her life that he was Minnesota Fats, the renowned billiards player. She was discovered in 1954 by bandleader Johhny Otis, who spotted her...
Jan 24, 2016 · Minnesota Fats, the boastful billiard wizard whose real name was Rudolf Wanderone Jr., died Thursday, Jan. 18, 1996, at his home in Nashville, Tennessee. His age is and always has been in...