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Velma Warren Brown, the woman who said she married James Brown in 1953 and never got a divorce, was found not only to be divorced from the late singer, but SHE was the one who filed the papers.
The New York Times says a Nexis/Lexis legal database search found that a Georgia divorce record for James Brown and Velma Warren was filed in Richmond County in 1969.
David B. Bell, the lawyer who filed the paperwork for Velma Warren Brown on Wednesday, said he was not aware of the 1969 filing. The Atlanta Bureau of The New York Times offered to send him the record and asked him if he would call back with a response. ?Maybe,? he replied.
Had Velma Brown's turned out to be the late entertainer?s surviving spouse, one lawyer familiar with the figures guessed that her claim to his estate might have been worth $100 million. Also, his three subsequent marriages would all have been invalidated.
