NEWSPAPER UPSETS INHERITANCE CLAIM WITH BROWN DIVORCE RECORD
LATEST: A woman who claims to have married late singer JAMES BROWN over 50 years ago and is fighting for a slice of his estate has been dealt a blow after a newspaper uncovered a Georgia divorce record from 1969.
Velma Warren Brown, 73, filed a sworn statement in Aiken County court, South Carolina on Wednesday (07Nov07), claiming she was never served with divorce papers and didn’t sign an agreement severing her marriage to Brown.
But The New York Times has now published what it says is a 1969 divorce record for James Brown and Velma Warren, filed in Richmond County, Georgia and it was Warren who applied for a divorce.
Further complicating matters, the record shows the couple had a five-year-old daughter, Lisa Brown, who has never been part of the soul superstar’s public history.
Brown died on Christmas Day last year (06) aged 73.
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