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James Brown: Marriage Feels Good?
James Brown and his wife want to be together. Just as soon as they finish splitting up.
In the latest soap-opera twist in the soul singer's life, Brown and backup singer Tomi Rae Brown are seeking dueling annulments--he wants to negate his marriage to her; she wants to finish off her marriage to a Pakistani man.
James Brown's attorney Jim Huff told Thursday's Augusta Chronicle (South Carolina) that once the paperwork clears, his star client and his fourth wife were likely to make a second go at their marriage.
All clear? We didn't think so.
Let's break it down:
In 1997, the former Tomi Rae Hynie (alternately ID'd as Tommie Rae or Tomi Rea--take your pick) wed one Javed Ahmed in Texas. Turned out that the one Javed Ahmed had three wives, not including Tomi Rae, according to a Tomi Rae court filing.
"That was an illegal marriage that lasted for three days and was annulled," Tomi Rae told Tuesday's Chronicle.
The union was never consummated, she said. She went on to wed Brown in December 2001.
But if the Ahmed marriage wasn't consummated, it appears the annulment wasn't, either. Last December, Tomi Rae, 33, filed a formal petition to nullify it, the Chroncile reported.
One month and one domestic-violence arrest after that, Brown, 70, filed for his own annulment from Tomi Rae, citing her allegedly still-valid marriage to Ahmed.
In the couple's hometown newspaper, Tomi Rae denied that her husband's alleged bad-boy behavior was the result of an argument over her debatable marriage status. Rather, she told the Chronicle, the two were on edge due to a power outage.
Brown was arrested Jan. 28 on charges of pushing Tomi Rae and threatening her with a chair at their Beech Island, South Carolina, home. He faces a maximum 30-day jail term and $500 fine, if found guilty.
Brown immediately denied the charge, saying he loved Tomi Rae. Then he filed for the annulment.
For her part, Tomi Rae said she loves Brown. She said she even tried to spare "The Godfather" the indignity of the Unkempt Mug Shot Seen Around the World.
"I tried to give the police a comb for him," she told the Chronicle of her husband's Nick Nolte-esque appearance following January's arrest. "I asked them to let me put him in some clean clothes. I asked them to not take the Godfather out looking like that."
As things stand now, Brown, the indefatigable Sex Machine is on tour in Australia; Tomi Rae is off the tour and due in a U.S. court later this month on her annulment petition. Once hers is taken care of, then Brown's will be handled, Huff said in the newspaper.
No word if the two plan to announce their could-be reconciliation via a full-page ad in Variety, which, of course, is how they announced their July 2003 separation.
But that's another (long) story...
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