Tom Jones love child: Sir Tom's three day affair with model – the woman behind secret son

Sir Tom Jones, 78, was married to wife Melinda “Linda” Trenchard for 59 years but he was a prolific adulterer with a wandering eye. The Sex Bomb warbler says he slept with up to 250 women while touring in a single year at the height of his fame. While some of his affairs lasted months or even years, it was his three-day fling with Katherine Berkery that resulted in a child called Jonathan. Jonathan Berkery, 30, is today estranged from his famous father who refuses to have anything to do with him.

The aspiring singer, who goes by the name Jon Jones, spent last year busking on the streets of New Jersey while living in a homeless shelter.

He says he wants to meet his father before it’s “too late” but Sir Tom refuses to speak to Jon, blaming his mother Katharine for the pregnancy.

Speaking out about him on one occasion a few years ago, he said: “I was tricked, really. I just fell for it.”

Who is the woman behind Tom Jones’ secret son?

Katherine Berkery was just 24 when she met Sir Tom, then 47, in a New York nightclub in October 1987.

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The aspiring model was invited to watch the crooner sing at his show the next evening, according to the Daily Mail.

They had dinner together before spending the night inside his suite at the Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Manhattan.

When Katherine discovered she was pregnant three months later, she told Tom by telephone but was reportedly told by an aide: “That’s showbiz, darling. Do what you have to do.”

In fact, it was years before Sir Tom would admit to fathering Jon.

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A judge ordered him to undergo a DNA test in 1988, proving the pair were biologically related.

The Daily Mail said the multi-millionaire star of ITV show The Voice was told to pay £1,700-a-month for his son’s maintenance for the first 18 years of his life.

In the intervening years, Sir Tom continued to shun his son, meaning Katherine was left having to bring up Jon on her own.

After he asked questions about who his father was, Katherine showed him the images of the paternity case results, at the time covered by the world’s media.

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But she told him that his father did not want to know him, sending Jon down a difficult path of drugs, homelessness and destitution in later life.

The Mail reported Jon remains in touch with his mother but they have a “complicated” relationship.

She now lives in Charlotte, North Carolina, with her husband.

Jon temporarily moved in with the couple after losing his driving licence in 2013, before moving to New Jersey to try to further his music career.

source: express.co.uk