Brown’s partner ‘locked out’ of house

JAMES Brown’s lawyer said yesterday the late singer and his partner were not legally married and that she was locked out of his South Carolina home for legal reasons.

Buddy Dallas said Mr Brown’s partner, dancer Tomi Rae Hynie, was already married to a Texas man in 2001 when she married Mr Brown, thus making her marriage to Mr Brown null.

He said Ms Hynie later annulled the previous marriage, but she and Mr Brown never remarried.