James Brown: causing trouble beyond the grave

It seems James Brown's dying wish may well have been to create some extra upsetment for his kind-of wife Tomi Rae Hynie. Tomi's been locked out of Brown's house since he died, caught in a legal blackhole - she'd been married when she married Brown, and after that marriage was annulled, they never remarried.

However, as mother of Brown's son, James Joseph Brown II, she seemed certain to be able to get back in. But now it turns out that not everyone is so sure James II is scion of James I. The family lawyer has let slip that, before he died, Brown decided there was only one way to make things straight:

[Lawyer Debra] Opri told CNN's Larry King: "James Brown uttered comments to his attorneys before he died.

"He said, 'When I'm gone get it [a DNA test on James II] done so my family knows'."

Of course, it's not clear what he wanted his family to actually know...

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