A California woman claims genetic testing done last year proves what her mother Patricia told her all her life: her father is the acclaimed, late sculptor Frederick Eversley.

Kelly Krechmer, 54, claims in papers filed in a Manhattan Surrogate Court she is entitled to a chunk of the artist’s $39 million estate.

Krechmer claims she confronted the artist decades ago at his SoHo studio, but he allegedly refused to accept she might be his daughter, she said in the filing seeking to be recognized as Eversley’s heir. 3

He allegedly told her he was sterile.

“After I explained to the Decedent that I believed he was my father, he denied paternity and refused to take a paternity test, stating that he ‘can’t have kids because I work with toxic substances,'” Krechmer said in the May 13 legal f

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