Years After Death, Battle for James Browns Estate Rages On

James Brown with his fourth wife, Tomi Rae Hynie, in 2006 Gianfranco Calcagno Rosetta Stone Spanish During his brilliant, troubled life, James Brown always called his own shots. So it wasnt a surprise that Brown set the terms of his legacy after his death. And the centerpiece of that vision was to give virtually his entire fortune, valued then at roughly $100 million, to a trust to help educate underprivileged children in South Carolina and Georgia.But nearly five years after his Christmas Day death in 2006, not one needy child has received a penny. Thats because Browns seven children and fourth wife, Tomi Rae Hynie, contested the will in a South Carolina court less than a month after he died. The litigation spiraled into a bitter battle with some two dozen attorneys representing various factions and became so unwieldy that then-state Attorney General Henry McMaster made a deal in 2009 that affirmed Browns will but split the estate between the trust and his family, with the legal expenses borne by the trust.The settlement was denounced by Browns advocates, including his longtime attorney Buddy Dallas. "How do you argue against an irrevocable will that provides for needy Rosetta Stone Software children? Is that even an argument?" he says. (The attorney for Browns children responds that the basis of his clients claim was that the singer had received bad advice and didnt know what he was signing.)Browns own legendary childhood abandoned to an aunt who ran a brothel in Augusta, Georgia, working the streets for pennies and dropping out of school in the seventh grade contributed to a dysfunctional life replete with drug abuse, failed relationships and multiple arrests. But Brown also credited it with instilling a work ethic that he saw as the foundation for his self-made success.The singer got the idea for the trust while visiting hospitals and playing benefits to raise money for sick children in the late 1980s. "He spent a lot of time with one girl with spina bifida," says music producer Jacque Hollander, who accompanied Rosetta Stone Italian V3 Brown to the hospitals.

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