James Brown was certainly angry enough, when he learned of this apparent oversight, to take out an ad in the trade paper Variety, in 2003, announcing that the couple was splitting up. The final annulment papers from that marriage appear not to have been satisfactorily filed before her marriage to Brown, leading her adversaries to suggest that she should forfeit her claim on his estate, originally valued at almost $100m, but now diminished by huge legal fees. Tomi Rae Hynie, as she was born, had contracted a marriage of convenience in 1997 with a Pakistani national, Javed Ahmed, who was in urgent need of a green card. The allegations -some wild and hallucinatory, some proven - provoked by the vicious feuding over his estate include embezzlement of millions of dollars by one of his trustees, homicide by negligence or intent, and body snatching.
The controversies he generated in life have been as nothing to the extraordinary conflict unleashed since his passing. In 2002, in a harassment case successfully defended by the singer, a young woman alleged that Brown (who was a year older than Lord Kenneth Baker) had brandished a pair of zebra-striped briefs while informing her that he had been implanted with bull's testicles. 30 gauge rifle while dressed only in his underpants. Ten years later he was found guilty of discharging a. He was then pursued through his hometown of Augusta by 14 squad cars, after police bullets had punctured his tyres. In addition to having single-handedly reinvented the nature of soul music, Brown also threatened 40 insurance salesmen with a shotgun, in 1988, eager to discover which one of them had used his private toilet without permission.
The phrase "he died as he lived" may have become a cliché, but it's unfortunately well-suited to the case of James Brown, whose terrestrial existence was not of the kind that you could call trouble free.
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