The great mystery surrounding the greatest mind of the 20th century: As Einstein's 'granddaughter' dies, was she really his secret love child?

Albert Einstein’s granddaughter has died with a mystery still unsolved over whether she was really the illegitimate child of one of the great minds of the 20th century.

Evelyn Einstein, who was adopted as a baby by the physicist’s son Hans and his wife, Frieda, claimed she was actually fathered by the wild-haired genius.

She said she was told as a child that her birth in 1941 was the result of her German-born grandfather’s affair with a ballet dancer.

The father of modern physics, famous for discovering the theory of relativity, lived at the time in Princeton, New Jersey, and Evelyn saw her grandfather infrequently after moving with her family to California.

Although she didn’t have any proof, she insisted in interviews that she had been raised by Einstein’s son to spare the family any embarrassment.

Einstein died in 1955 at the age of 76, when Evelyn was 14.

Years later, she was allegedly offered a piece of Einstein’s brain, which would have allowed her to carry out a DNA test, but it never happened.

Ms Einstein, who was homeless and lived out of her car for several months following a bitter divorce, died on April 13 at the age of 70 at her home in Albany, California, still fighting to get a piece of ‘grandpa’s’ fortune. Read More