"In multiple 2019 interviews including Vanity Fair, Verrett claimed he was raised by a wealthy architect father "with a private plane and domestic servants."[15] Several of Verrett's relatives contradict such claims, including his paternal aunt who said Verrett's father was a middle-class contractor who twice went bankrupt, and Verrett's stepmother was a longtime employee of Alaska Airlines.[16] United States census data shows Verrett's childhood neighborhood was considered lower middle class for the time period.[17]
Verrett has claimed that his mother, Sheilah G. Farmer, who goes by the alias Veruschka Urquhart, is of Norwegian-West Indian[18][19] descent, although he has alternately described her as being of Native American heritage.[20] He has sometimes claimed that his father, David Benjamin Verrett (1929-2017), was of African and Haitian origin, while at other times stating his father was "a Native American Blackfoot Indian".[21] Verrett's parents divorced in April 1977 when he was 2.[22] When Verrett was 3, his father married Verrett's stepmother, Geraldine Roy (1943-2009).[23] "
" In multiple interviews in 2022 and 2023, Verrett's mother described him as "ingratiating", "manipulative", "dangerous", "prone to lying", and said she no longer has contact with him.[13][14]"
Durek's late aunt, the acclaimed opera singer Shirley Verrett dismissed many of his claims about his family life in her autobiography.
I think I've posted this Wiki info before, but there's been a lot of info added in the mean time. I think I would go along with his mother and indeed, she seems to have struck a nerve with ML.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Durek_Verrett
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