A man is claiming that he’s Maurine Gibb’s secret lovechild, and he wants the remaining Bee Gees to help him prove it.
Forty-nine-year-old Maurice Endacott told The Mirror that he was given up for adoption in 1968 by his mother Patti Nolder, who had worked in the music industry, including as a music studio manager for Beatles producer George Martin.
Endacott says that his birth mother had largely refused to help him find his biological father, but that he was told by her sister that his father was Bee Gee Maurice Gibb, who died in 2003 at the age of just 53.
“I’ve researched a lot and it all adds up. I’m 99 per cent sure Maurice Gibb is my dad but I need a DNA test to tell me 100 per cent in black and white,” he says. A facial recognition test that compares characteristics such as eyebrow patterns and the distances between the nose, mouth and eyes, found that he was a 95.2 percent match for Maurice.
Endacott has written three letters to the last remaining Bee Gee, Maurice’s brother Barry, begging him to take a DNA test to help him confirm his heritage. The other Bee Gee, Robin, died in 2012.
“I know people will think I’m doing this for money or some claim of the Gibb estate, but I’m not,” Endacott says. “It isn’t about that. I just want to know who my dad is. I have a right to know.”
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