He was the Godfather of Soul, a music legend whose incendiary stage act over six decades inspired generations of performers from Mick Jagger to Michael Jackson. But the story of James Brown, now immortalised by Jagger in a £25 million biopic, Get On Up, has become even more extraordinary in death. Last night Brown’s widow Tomi Rae – the mother of his 13-year-old youngest child James Jnr – revealed for the first time the vicious battle over her husband’s £65 million fortune, how his corpse was dismembered amid a paternity row, and why his body has been moved 14 times since his death because of family feuding.
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Grieving widow of Get On Up legend opens up about posthumous DNA test
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Reveals how paternity row over her son led to macabre examination
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Singer's corpse was moved 14 times amid family feuding for the £65m
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New biopic does not cover the drama that has followed Brown's death
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