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James Brown's widow is finally being laid to rest.  It is about time, the man died in Feb (75 days ago), good going Family finally coming together to intern this great man.  He was laid to rest at his daughters home.  The entire family came and Sharpton said some final words.

James Brown's widow is pissed, Tomi Rae Hynie, she has slammed producers of the Grammy Awards for combining a tribute to the Godfather of Soul with a tribute to The Eagles.  During the ceremony on February 11, The Eagles were honored with a three-song medley, while Brown was remembered with a performance by Christina Aguilera singing It's a Man's, Man's, Man's World, followed by a tap-dancing routine while black-and-white footage of Brown dancing played on a giant video screen above.  The music legend's glittering red robe was brought out and hung on the microphone stand, without a mention of Brown's contribution to music, which is a shame to the man. Brown died on Christmas Day last year and is expected to be buried in the next few days now that a court battle over his final resting place has been resolved, and it would be about time.  Anna Nicole might going this way also.  Poor Celebrity, poor family..

The body of soul singer James Brown has yet to be buried as attorneys and his children work to settle issues surrounding his estate, including where he will be laid to rest. For now, his body lies in a sealed casket in his home on Beech Island, said Charles Reid, manager of the C.A. Reid Funeral Home in Augusta, Ga., which handled the services. The room where Brown's body lies is being kept at a controlled temperature, and security guards keep watch, Reid said. Brown's home has been locked since hours after his death to protect his memorabilia, furnishing, clothes and other personal items, Dallas said. Tomi Rae Hynie, Brown's partner, said shortly after his death that she encountered locked gates as she tried to get into the home she says she shared with the singer and their 5-year-old son.
Meanwhile, a woman who claims Brown raped her nearly 20 years ago said Tuesday she will continue her lawsuit. Jacque Hollander has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to hear her sexual harassment suit, which a lower court ruled last year she had waited too long to file. A Supreme Court decision on whether to hear the case is pending. She argues that the two-year statute of limitations in such cases does not provide equal protection to women. "As a rape victim, I will never get to face him in court, and it hurts," she said. "But we are moving forward. We filed against his organization, as well as him. So now his organization stands in front of him." In her lawsuit, Hollander said Brown raped her at gunpoint in 1988 while she was his publicist. She seeks $106 million in damages.

James Brown Passes on:  James Brown, the dynamic, pompadoured "Godfather of Soul," whose rasping vocals and revolutionary rhythms made him a giant of R&B and an inspiration for rap, funk and disco, died early Christmas morning. He was 73. Brown was hospitalized with pneumonia at Emory Crawford Long Hospital on Sunday and died around 1:45 a.m. Monday, said his agent, Frank Copsidas of Intrigue Music group.  He was an Innovator and a Shaker of his time.  He was a singer who was loved by Rock and Roll, Soul (Which became R & B) and a man who became somewhat self destructive in a couple of previous years.  He dabbled pretty heavily in drugs.  But the thing about James Brown he was an incredibly driven performer, and he was very aware of being James Brown and the figure that he was. With an arrest a couple of years ago, with the picture that went all over the world of a deranged singer who was arrested with a mug photo that was crazy.  He was known as the hardest working man in show business and he was one of the first people to introduce synchronized dancing on stage. There was that amazing act of his where towards the end of the set, he'd fall to the floor as if exhausted. Harris is known as a Radio 2 DJ and for TV's.  They'd put a cape around him, they'd be leading him off and suddenly he was back at the front of the stage.  He would go through this sequence at the end of the set several times - but you believed it. You believed he would be exhausted because he would put so much energy into his live performances. He had been sent to prison two or three times during the course of his career.  

Funeral plans for the Godfather of Soul, who died on Christmas Day of congestive heart failure at age 73, have been finalized. At the same time, as tributes from fans and fellow musicians around the world continue to pour in, Spike Lee has announced he'll direct a biopic based on Brown's life.  In honor of his unforgettable debut at the historic Apollo Theater in Harlem, which culminated in his top-selling 1962 album, Live at the Apollo, Vol. 1, and marked his breakthrough on the pop charts, Brown's body will lie in state at the venue on Thursday from 1 p.m. to 8 p.m. to give fans a chance to pay their last respects.  The Reverend Al Sharpton, a close friend of the showman for over three decades, confirmed the funeral arrangements on Tuesday after consulting with Brown's children in Georgia.

James Brown's widow said Monday she was denied access to the Beech Island, S.C., home she shared with the singer and their 5-year-old son, claiming the gate was padlocked at the request of Brown's lawyer and accountant. Tomi Rae Brown, who was one of James Brown's backup singers, said she was at a retreat when her 73-year-old husband died shortly after he was hospitalized in Atlanta. "The last thing he said to me was, 'I love you, baby, and I'll see you soon,' " she told The Augusta, Georgia Chronicle. But when she returned to their home hours after her husband died, security guards told her James Brown's lawyer, Buddy Dallas, and accountant, David Cannon, said she was not allowed inside, she said.  She said she does not own the deed to the home but had a legal right to live there.
"This is my home," she told a reporter for the newspaper outside the gate of the house. "I don't have any money. I don't have anywhere to go."       





 

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