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Oh, and she wants to be allowed back into her house (padlocked the day after her husband died), to fetch their five-year-old son’s toys, hip Tommy Bahama living room furniture she picked out for the mansion they shared in Beech Island, S.C. for almost 10 years and other items detailed in an attached affidavit. Read the rest of this entry »

Our courtwatchers in Aiken, S.C. now tell us the hearing on the emergency petition to remove James Brown’s three estate trustees (aka personal representatives or PRs) has been changed from this Thursday to Friday, Feb. 9. at 10 a.m. in District Court.

We expect the same cast of characters facing off: on one side, James Brown’s six grown children and 8 grandchildren, represented by experienced Atlanta litigator Louis Levenson; on the other, the Godfather’s long-time attorney, Buddy Dallas, accountant David Cannon and a retired magistrate–all whom are said to have toasted the Godfather and Tommie Rae at their wedding in 2001–and all now championed by highly-regarded attorney, Strom Thurmond, Jr., son of the late senator and legend. Read the rest of this entry »

To fully appreciate the powerful undertow of ugly pulling us inexorably towards the brewing scandal over who should run James Brown’s mega-millions on the banks of the Savannah River in Aiken, S.C., we’d be remiss not to pass this along.

The day before Browns’ adult children filed their restraining order to remove the personal representatives last week, James Brown’s vigilant son-in-law, Shawn Thomas, called the cops to report estate trustees sashaying about the Godfather’s 60 acres and mansion on Beech Island, S.C.–and blocked their escape with his car. While this falls in the “too good to check” category, we’re not making it up. We saw it in the Augusta Chronicle. .

You go, Shawn! Read on. Read the rest of this entry »

So, it’s going to be Tomi Rae AND James Brown’s grown kids against estate trustees, and you read it here first.

Indeed, The Bald Truth has learned that Tomi Rae Brown, the aggrieved and grieving widow of the late Godfather of Soul –dissed and dismissed as a mere acquaintance by estate lawyers– will draw her own line in the dirt of Aiken, South Carolina this week when her lawyers ask a judge to boot, or neutralize, the three trustees aka personal reps of her late husband’s estate..

“We have the same concerns as James Brown’s children and grandchildren,” attorney Robert Rosen tells me. He plans to file his petition later this week and be in district court Thursday, but doesn’t know about Tomi Rae. “We just want a complete accounting we can count on of all the assets being there.” Read the rest of this entry »