David Bowie's Ashes Weren't Scattered at Burning Man, Sorry

David Bowie's son Duncan Jones has repudiated claims that his father's ashes were scattered at the Black Rock Desert festival Burning Man this weekend. Taking to Twitter this morning, as FACT points out, he unequivocally rebutted the story, which was widely reported by E! News yesterday.

That Burning Man thing? What people will do & say for attention never ceases to amaze me. Not true. Kind of a gross claim as well. *sigh*
— Duncan Jones (@ManMadeMoon) September 12, 2016

The original story cited an anonymous insider source, and claimed that that Bowie's widow Iman gave his unidentified godchild some of the musician's ashes for the aforementioned purpose. "David's godchild and David had long talks about Burning Man and what it stands for, and David loved the message behind it," said the source.

Two days before the publication of E!'s piece, Burning Man hobbyist website Burn.Life published a blog post stating that "some of David Bowie's ashes were in the Temple this year," citing multiple sources. Dr. Yes, the author of the website, updated the post yesterday writing that E! claimed to "have spoken to another source confirming the story further."

In another update to the post today, they responded to Duncan Bowie's refutation of the report with skepticism: "Insofar as he wasn't involved with this as far as I know, I don't consider the denial particularly important, but he sounds upset and I'm not looking to offend him." They say they will not take down the post because "it's a result of multiple independent sources that were there," but they also will not "speculate as to his denial … out of respect."

Midway through the festival last week, a crew of burners staged a pre-meditated attack on a luxury camp on the Playa. If you've been to the mythologized event, or even seen pictures, you can probably identify the six kinds of people who will ruin Burning Man just by being there.

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