DNA Report: James Brown II Is Godfather’s Son!
DNA Test Obtained by The Bald Truth Declares Godfather Is The Daddy!!
BY ART HARRIS, (c), www.artharris.com, all rights reserved
The Bald Truth has obtained a secret DNA test that establishes the late Godfather of Soul fathered the now six year old boy he nicknamed “Little Man” and considered his son, James Brown II, by Tomie Rae Hynie Brown.
“If that was James Brown’s bone we tested, that’s James Brown’s kid,” says Robert Archer, PHd, director of Genetic Identity labs of Eugene, Oregon in an exclusive interview with The Bald Truth.
“The alleged father (James Brown) cannot be excluded as the biological father of the child since they share genetic markers,” says the lab’s paternity screening report dated April 18, 2008. A copy obtained by The Bald Truth reports “the probability of paternity is 99.999975 as compared to an untested, unrelated man of the African American population.”
“Now we have the science to back up what we knew all along,” his widow, Tomie Rae, tells me in an exclusive interview.
“James was my husband, and ‘Little Man” is our son, and greed is the only reason others have been telling lies like ‘James had a vasectomy,’ or ‘he didn’t believe this was his child’…He never questioned whether this was his son, I’ve always been willing to have Little Man tested, but I wanted his other children to be tested, too.
Along with the Godfather’s six grown children – who oppose DNA testing on them – Tommie Rae is also contesting the Godfather’s will, which failed to even mention her or JB II, kicked out of Brown’s Akin, S.C. house after he died in 2006.
Estate trustees have questioned Little Man’s legitimacy, and April’s GQ magazine reported sources close to Brown saying the Godfather underwent a vasectomy years ago after siring several children. In recent months, DNA tests confirmed two new grown offspring, and now, Little Man, the only child he named after himself.
Indeed, a birth certificate we also obtained lists the Soul Man extraordinaire as JB 2’s father, and he’s receiving social security benefits as Brown’s child; Brown referred to the boy as his son in an autobiography.
On a never before released videotaped interview we’ve reviewed, the Godfather mentions that he expects his wife, Tomi Rae, and their son, JB II, to be well taken care of by recordings and royalties he will one day leave behind.
Brown and Tomi Rae can be seen sitting on a hotel room couch holding hands and discussing her singing career and who will manage her. Tomi Rae tells me she had the afternoon videotaped for a yet to be edited documentary on their life together, and had no idea that her husband would die a few months later in an Atlanta hospital, in December, 2006.
It’s eerie to watch, with the Godfather, full of energy, nibbling a plate of food Tomi Rae fetches. He’s dressed in a blue suit, his trademark hair pouffed and pomaded to perfection, and shows great affection for Tomi Rae, calling her singing talents considerable.
Since she was booted out of their home after he died, Tomi Rae says she’s now homeless and living with friends in California while she and her son fight for standing and a share of the estate.
To cut down on conflict between heirs and trustees since Brown died, a South Carolina judge last week ordered Tomi Rae to have a DNA test done on her son within 30 days, not knowing JB II’s court-appointed guardian ad litum, attorney Peter Shahid, a former assistant U.S. attorney, had done a secret DNA test two weeks earlier.
In court, Shahid and Tomi Rae’s Charleston, S.C. attorney, Robert Rosen, consented to have JB II tested, and at the request of the other Brown chlildren, postponed a motion that the other children be DNA tested, too. “Tomi Rae has always agreed to have their son tested as long as the other children were treated the same way,” said Rosen.
In an exclusive interview, Shahid tells me in quietly testing the boy earlier, he was looking out for his client’s welfare, since JB II stood to lose federal benefits from James Brown’s social security and health insurance benefits from the actor’s guild if he were stripped of his standing.
To be prepared for anticipated DNA tests, doctors at the Medical University of South Carolina had retrieved bone fragments from Brown’s body before burial. Shahid obtained a sample, and mailed it to the DNA lab in Oregon, he says; Tomi Rae swabbed her son’s cheek for saliva and sent that in.
Dr. Archer, who did the testing, tells me he had no idea it was DNA from the legendary dead celebrity, and ran it blind. The only way the books could be cooked, he said, would be if it was a completely different African American father and son combo, or DNA from the brother or another son of JB had been dispatched as a ruse. Since the rest of the family is locked in a bitter fight with Tomi Rae and the boy, that’s an unlikely scenario.
“If they want to do another DNA test with a legitimate lab and we can be sure of the chain of custody, they can knock themselves out,” says Shahid.
“We’ve got the answer to what could be a multi-million dollar question now,” says Tomi Rae lawyer Robert Rosen, who is also fighting for his client’s standing as JB’s bonafide widow.
“I’ve lost work over this and me and my son have been shunned as virtual outcasts,” Tomi Rae tells me.
“Everyone’s been trying to make me and my son look as if we don’t belong, when we were the only ones who were really in James Brown’s life and never doubted his love. This is all about greed, and that’s why he left most of his estate to a trust for needy children. But James always promised we’d be taken care of.”
Tomi Rae says wills backing that up went missing after he died.
See the exclusive DNA report, and other documents below:
May 2nd, 2008 at 6:58 pm
I am very pleased for Tomi Rae,I had felt so bad for her when she was crying,and trying to tell everyone that her child was James Brown Child.I hope the child has talent,like his father.
May 2nd, 2008 at 7:15 pm
Wonderful news.
Shame on James Brown’s other children and Rev L Sharpton for the way they treated Brown’s wife and precious little son.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:15 pm
Hey Art wheres Birkhead when you need him on DNA,,, congrats Tomi Rae hope it gets easier for you however you gotta know family members when it comes to money they will find yet another hurdle to throw at you just be prepared.
May 2nd, 2008 at 9:59 pm
Art thanks for the update on the Brown saga.I had gone back and read some of the old stories on this and was really surprised at the hate shown Tammi and Little Man.I know I should not have been surprised with the things going on with the ANS saga,but I thought it was maybe a one time thing. Guess it wasn’t.I wonder just why the other children won’t be tested??I suppose she will still have to fight for her and little mans share of the Brown estate.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:37 am
Why is it that family has to have tizzy fits when someone passes and feel that they are entitled to who gets the estate? DNA proves he’s the son, he should be taken care of. Greed should be set aside.
May 3rd, 2008 at 2:58 am
Art, You put James Brown Jr or Tomi’s Social Security Number on your Website. You need to take it off the Social Security Document
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:26 am
On the surface the evidence appears overwhelming. Appears that is. Time for both sides to come together for a verification session. Maybe an official certification of the DNA results is in order.
May 3rd, 2008 at 7:13 am
What a shame. I hope Tomi Rae and her son get their fair share.
May 3rd, 2008 at 1:31 pm
Congrats to Tomi & “Little Man”.
It’s ironic that he compares his relationship with Tomi to that of Anna Nicole and J Howard Marshall in his book.
Thanks for the update Art.
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:20 pm
I believe they knew that was his child all along.
May 3rd, 2008 at 4:54 pm
I don’t really think someone’s DNA report is any of our business!
May 3rd, 2008 at 9:20 pm
I’m not surprised. Al Sharpton gets it wrong again!
May 4th, 2008 at 4:29 am
Everything is relative…
http://www.abengnews.com/index.php?news=264
May 4th, 2008 at 9:35 am
It’s just a damned shame that people don’t do what Frank Sinatra did: Have the “i’s” dotted and the “t’s” crossed. Frank’s will was so tight that there was a clause in there that stated that anyone who contested it would get nothing. He made sure everyone got something, and that was that.
I am glad for Tommi Rae and little JB. They deserve to be included in the largesse.
May 5th, 2008 at 10:16 am
After going through all of this I hope She Demands that All of His Grown Children be given a DNA test. I bet that would be a real Eye Opener .
May 5th, 2008 at 4:01 pm
I’m puling for the “Little Man”.
May 7th, 2008 at 2:32 am
Hmmm…Something stinks in “Denmark”. Art said Tomi Rae did the test and sent it in. I don’t trust that woman.
May 8th, 2008 at 3:27 am
THE BALD TRUTH IS ANY WOMAN CAN HAVE A CHILD.
The sad truth.
Now because the ‘adults’ were…oh nevermind, there’s a little one that will eventually have to overcome all this heartache, and so the story goes…
May 9th, 2008 at 10:06 pm
Joe Prescott:
If you don’t trust that woman, join the parade with Brown’s older children. Wouldn’t it be interesting if the DNA did not match all the grown children? That would make my day.
July 28th, 2008 at 3:44 pm
I wonder what the latest is on this story.
August 13th, 2008 at 12:57 pm
I think it’s crying shame to know the way people are when there’s a death in the family, especially when the person is wealthy. The siblings of this six year old boy should feel shame, putting the mother and their brother out into the streets as if they meant absolutely NOTHING to the late James Brown i’m sure he’s looking down at everything that has transpired and shaking his head in disgust. It would be very interesting to know what the outcome would be if they were to take the DNA testing themselves and maybe a small amount doubt stands before them and this is why they aren’t willing to submit to Tomi Raes request, how convenient!
Evidently the late James Brown felt something and enough to have given the child his ENTIRE name and sign the birth certificate…Uh, why don’t we take glance at their birth certificates? Maybe there are only XXXXX in the signature field and maybe their mothers were just a bunch of “lose groupies” and was wishful in their thinking…..uh!
September 5th, 2008 at 3:30 pm
This is very interesting to me. I am in the process of getting my own celebrity DNA test and it is proving to be grueling because the celebrity is deceased as well.
April 13th, 2012 at 11:59 am
The most interesting thing about this whole report – which is really well written and researched – is that the adult children of JB refused to have a DNA test. That says it all, folks.
December 27th, 2013 at 10:16 am
I can think of many famous battles over estates. Greed comes in all people. One hit close to home. An elderly white couple raised a poor black woman’s son. When the old pair died, their will reflected everything left to their biological adult children and one acre to the black youngster. The children contested the little acre and lost. Greed abounds. JB ll deserved his share and his mom did too. She was James’ choice, although she would have been another ex- if JB had lived to move on. Celebs are restless.