DNA tests find more of James Brown's children

DNA testing on about a dozen people who claim James Brown was their father has found that at least two of them are his children, a longtime adviser to the late American soul singer said.

Several tests have come back negative, while others are pending, said Buddy Dallas, who did not have exact numbers last night.

Dallas refused to identify the two people whose DNA showed they were Brown’s children, but the Augusta Chronicle reported that LaRhonda Petitt, a 45-year-old retired flight attendant and teacher in Houston, showed the newspaper a report that says there is a 99.99% probability she is Brown’s daughter.

She would be the oldest of Brown’s children.

Brown picked out Petitt’s mother from the crowd at a show in Los Angeles in the early 1960s, and she became the singer’s girlfriend, sometimes ironing his shirts before his shows, Petitt said.

But when her mother became pregnant, she split with Brown and moved back to Houston.

She would point to the television when Brown was performing and tell her daughter the singer was her father, Petitt told the newspaper.

Petitt said that she met Brown at concerts and spoke to him over the phone, but that he never acknowledged being her father.