Reply #7: Brown's Partner Denied Access to Home (not married...

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http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/us/AP-James-Brown-Widow.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

December 26, 2006
Brown's Partner Denied Access to Home
By THE ASSOCIATED PRESS

Filed at 10:24 a.m. ET

ATLANTA (AP) -- 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 dancer 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.

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