Father to 15 children … but were any of blues star BB King’s offspring his?

A new biography says paternity would have been impossible for the musician because he was sterile due to illness and an accident

BB King was born into poverty in Jim Crow Mississippi and raised on a cotton plantation before becoming a street busker then finding fame and fortune as a guitarist, singer and songwriter. But the King of the Blues" also had a far from conventional private life, fathering 15 children, many of whom reportedly squabbled over his multimillion-dollar estate after his death in 2015.

But they could not have been his biological children because he was sterile due to illness and an accident, a forthcoming biography claims.