I ain’t saying she’s a gold digger… COLUMBIA, S.C. – The woman who claims to be James Brown’s fourth wife wants half of the singer’s estate and to be allowed back into the South Carolina home she was locked out of soon after his death. Tomi Rae Hynie’s lawyer said she filed a petition in Aiken County probate court Thursday, claiming that she is the surviving spouse of the singer and entitled to part of his estate, according to court documents obtained by the Associated Press.
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I ain’t saying she’s a gold digger…
COLUMBIA, S.C. – The woman who claims to be James Brown’s fourth wife wants half of the singer’s estate and to be allowed back into the South Carolina home she was locked out of soon after his death.
Tomi Rae Hynie’s lawyer said she filed a petition in Aiken County probate court Thursday, claiming that she is the surviving spouse of the singer and entitled to part of his estate, according to court documents obtained by the Associated Press.
She wants the court to allow her to return to Brown’s Beech Island home to retrieve “personal possessions” that belong to her and their 5-year-old son, including furniture she picked out for the home, according to the court papers.
“She’s not asking the court to live there,” said Robert Rosen, Hynie’s attorney. “They locked her out and wouldn’t let her in but she has a right to go in and get her stuff-furniture, her clothing, her son’s toys. They keep saying that they’re going to do it, but they never do it. So we’re going to ask a judge to order them to do it.”
Whitney wants a divorce NOW
ORANGE, Calif. – Whitney Houston wants to fast-track her divorce from Bobby Brown.
The singer, who filed divorce papers in October, requested a default judgment in a document filed on Dec. 28 in Orange County Superior Court.
A checked box on the two-page document indicates that there are “no issues of division of community property” in the divorce.
The document was obtained by the CelebTV.com website, which reported it Thursday.
Houston, 43, has asked for custody of the couple’s 13-year-old daughter, Bobbi Kristina, and that Brown, 37, be allowed visitation rights.
The couple wed in 1992.
Britney and K-Fed unlikely to breed more children
LOS ANGELES – Britney Spears and Kevin Federline will continue to share custody of their two young sons this month, following the terms of a January custody agreement, Federline’s attorney confirmed Thursday.
That agreement has been temporarily extended for February, said publicist Michael Sands, speaking on behalf of Federline’s attorney, Mark Vincent Kaplan.
Spears, 25, agreed last month to temporary joint custody of one-year-old Sean Preston Federline and almost-five-month-old Jayden James Federline.
Per the terms of that agreement, Federline will continue to be allowed to visit the children at Spears’ home from noon to 4 p.m. on Mondays, Wednesdays and Fridays.
Spears filed for divorce from Federline in November after two years of marriage, citing irreconcilable differences.
Aspiring rapper Federline, 28, counter-filed, seeking spousal support and custody of the children.
