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Producer to challenge James Brown estate settlement
By CMU Editorial | Published on Tuesday 5 April 2011
A producer who worked with the late James Brown reckons that a court ruling relating to how the late Godfather of soul’s estate be divided up went against the singer’s wishes, and he has announced he will challenge the decision.
As previously reported, Brown left much of his estate to two trusts, one to educate his grandchildren and the other to educate needy children. But in 2009 a South Carolina court ruled that while a half of the late singer’s fortune should go to the trusts, a further quarter should go to his wife Tomi Rae Hynie Brown and their young son and the remaining quarter to his various adult children.
But former producer Jacque Hollander reportedly argues that that decision put a much bigger slice of Brown’s money and future royalties into the hands of his family, over the trusts, than the singer would have wished. And according to the New York Post he plans to challenge the decision.
The Brown family are yet to respond.
