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A bizarre phone call reveals a question in the grave – has the godfather of the soul been murdered? About 40 years ago, a songwriter found himself in the inner circle of musician James Brown. The relationship would almost destroy her career. Decades later, she tries to unravel the mystery of James Brown’s death…and her own life. When she called CNN reporter Thomas Lake, the pair stumbled into a world of secrecy, intimidation and alleged foul play.
A bizarre phone call reveals a question in the grave – has the godfather of the soul been murdered? About 40 years ago, a songwriter found himself in the inner circle of musician James Brown. The relationship would almost destroy her career. Decades later, she tries to unravel the mystery of James Brown’s death…and her own life. When she called CNN reporter Thomas Lake, the pair stumbled into a world of secrecy, intimidation and alleged foul play.
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In 2017, CNN reporter Thomas Lake received a call from a circus singer who told an unbelievably crazy story: James Brown didn’t die of natural causes in 2006; instead, the soul The godfather was murdered. After months of phone calls from the circus singer, Lake decided to fly to Chicago to meet Jacques Holland in person. There, Jacques proved her connection to James Brown and showed Lake a videotape of a polygraph test she took in 1995 by a former FBI agent.
October 28, 2022
Thomas Lake, still struggling to think about the circus singer’s story, investigates Jacques Hollander’s role in Atlanta’s music scene and how she first met James Brown and his third wife Adrian’s and learned how Jacques became a part of Brown’s inner circle. Jacques in turn reveals the events of a tragic night she spent with James Brown in 1988, the night her life changed forever.
October 28, 2022