James Brown, who grew up picking cotton so he could afford food and clothes, kept cotton branches in vases around his house to remind himself where he came from. The Brown estate in Beech Island sits ...

Brown’s estate, which has been left the way it was the day the singer died, was purchased for $90 million, according to Billboard. James Brown also heralded as “The Godfather of Soul” and “The Hardest ...

James Brown’s will is just seven pages and a cover sheet. Signed in 2000, it states that the majority of his estate would go to fund scholarships to educate children in his home states of South ...