A brand new, bombshell investigation printed by has raised questions surrounding funk and soul legend James Brown's dying.

James Brown handed away on Christmas Day, 2006 on the age of 73. Brown's preliminary explanation for dying was listed as congestive coronary heart failure, ensuing from problems of pneumonia.

The investigation lead by CNN senior author Thomas Lake first began when he obtained a cellphone name in 2017 from a girl who stated she may show that James Brown had been murdered. Looking into the deaths of the late singer and his third spouse Adrienne Brown, Lake began to seek out startling similarities between each their deaths whereas amassing varied items of proof and testimony that elevate many questions.

After a two-year probe into his trigger his demise with practically 140 individuals interviewed by CNN, many members of Brown's inner-circle have come ahead with their suspicions with reference to his dying. At least 13 individuals who knew James Brown are calling for a prison investigation and post-mortem.

Those elevating doubts embrace Brown's fourth and last spouse Tomirae Brown, a good friend who continues to carry onto a l of the Godfather of Soul's blood, considering that in the future it could reveal the reality and final however not least, the physician who pronounced him lifeless, Dr. Marvin Crawford.

Brown's situation "modified too quick,” Crawford instructed CNN. “He was a affected person I might by no means have predicted would have coded (medical jargon for cardiopulmonary arrest). But he died that night time, and I did elevate that query: What went fallacious in that room?”

Further complicated issues is the truth that Yamma Brown, daughter of James Brown, declined an post-mortem request immediately after her father's passing. While many are calling on authorities to exhume Brown’s physique for an post-mortem, Brown's different daughter, Deanna Brown Thomas, has refused to substantiate whether or not or not her father's stays nonetheless relaxation within the household crypt that sits on her yard.

Examining tens of hundreds of pages of paperwork, textual content messages, court docket data and police reviews, Lake's investigation results in new forensic testing, stunning testimony and unearthed proof that's as questionable as it's damming. All in all, its one hell of a learn.

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Photo: James Brown within the UK, 1991 (Stephen Wright/Redferns/Getty Images)

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