[bomp] Say It Loud -- I'm Locked The F*** Out!

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umm..."Hynie"??
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Brown's Widow Locked Out of Home
AP

ATLANTA (Dec. 26) - James Brown 's lawyer said Tuesday that the late singer 
and his partner were not legally married and that she was locked out of his 
South Carolina home for estate legal reasons. 

"It's not a reflection on her as an individual," lawyer Buddy Dallas told The 
Associated Press. "I have not even been in the house, nor will I until 
appropriate protocol is followed." 

Brown's partner, backup singer Tomi Rae Hynie, was already married to a Texas 
man in 2001 when she married Brown, thus making her marriage to Brown null, 
Dallas said. He said Hynie later annulled the previous marriage, but she and 
Brown never remarried. 

"I suppose it would mean she was, from time to time, a guest in Mr. Brown's 
home," Dallas said. 

On Monday, after the 73-year-old "Godfather of Soul" died at an Atlanta 
hospital, Hynie, 36, found the gates to Brown's Beech Island, S.C., home padlocked 
and said she was denied access. 

Hynie argued that she has a legal right to live in the home with the couple's 
5-year-old son. 

"This is my home," Hynie told a reporter outside the house. "I don't have any 
money. I don't have anywhere to go." 

Dallas said legal formalities need to be followed now, adding that Brown's 
estate was left in trust for his children. He declined to elaborate on Brown's 
final instructions. 

"It's not intended and I hope not interpreted to be an act of unkindness or 
an act of a lack of sympathy," Dallas said. "Ms. Hynie has a home a few blocks 
away from Mr. Brown's home where she resides periodically when she is not with 
Mr. Brown. She is not without housing or home." 

Dallas said Brown and Hynie had not seen each other for several weeks before 
his death. 

The couple had had a sometimes tumultuous relationship. Brown pleaded guilty 
in 2004 to a domestic violence charge stemming from an argument with Hynie and 
was let off with a $1,087 fine. He was accused of pushing Hynie to the floor 
at the home and threatening to kill her. 

Hynie could not be reached Tuesday for further comment. A lawyer who has 
represented her in the past, Robert Rosen, was out of the country and could not be 
reached, according to a receptionist in his Charleston, S.C., office. 

Hynie's cell phone wasn't accepting incoming messages Tuesday, but had an 
outgoing message that said in part, "James, if this is you, I'm in a meeting and 
I will call you back when I get out. Thank you so much for calling. Happy 
holidays." 

Brown, whose classic singles included "Papa's Got a Brand New Bag" and "I Got 
You (I Feel Good)," died of heart failure less than two days after he had 
been hospitalized with pneumonia, his agent said. Funeral details had not been 
set Tuesday morning. 

Copyright 2006 The Associated Press. 

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