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As reported by The Associated Press

Although the results of the court-ordered test have not been released, an attorney for the 6-year-old son of a woman who claimed to be James Brown’s wife when he died, says an independent DNA test confirms the soul singer fathered the child.

Peter Shahid, an attorney for James Brown II’s guardian, told the Associated Press on Friday that the boy was tested in April before a South Carolina judge ordered a paternity test.

Brown II is the son of Tomi Rae Hynie, a former backup singer for the Godfather of Soul.

Trustees handling Brown’s estate have suggested Hynie was not legally married to Brown and her boy is not his son. They were not mentioned in Brown’s will.

A call to a spokesman for Hynie and a message left for Brown’s trustees were not immediately returned.

The story was first reported by Art Harris, whose blog “The Bald Truth” is at http://www.artharris.com.

Brown died in Atlanta on Christmas Day 2006.

As reported in the Associated Press, Penielle “Penie” White has been added to the list of women who say the leader of a suburban Atlanta megachurch sexually abused them or coerced them to have sex.

Archbishop Earl Paulk, 80, co-founder of Cathedral of the Holy Spirit at Chapel Hill Harvester Church, is alleged to have touched Ms White inappropriately when she was about 8 years old. She said she made the allegations in a sworn deposition a few months ago as part of a lawsuit against Paulk, who is accused by a former church member of coercing her into a sexual relationship.

Paulk has been hit by multiple lawsuits, but does not face criminal charges.

“He started out playful, tickling and sort of fondling,” White said in a phone interview. “But as a child, you don’t know that’s what he’s doing.”

White said she also was present when her grandfather fondled Jessica Battle, another young member of the church, who later sued Paulk in 2001 for molestation and rape. That case was settled out of court two years later.

Matt Wilkins, one of Paulk’s attorneys, denied White’s allegations.

“They surprised him,” Wilkins said of the on-air interviews given by White and her mother - Paulk’s daughter, Beth Bonner. “He spent Thanksgiving at Beth Bonner’s house, and Penie was there. They had a loving family Thanksgiving.”

Bonner, however, said the family had a meal together on the Saturday following Thanksgiving so that they could be with Paulk’s wife, Norma, who refuses to go anywhere without her husband.

“They make it like we were all in family unity, and we weren’t,” said Bonner, who left her father’s church in 1992.

White’s assertion marks only one in a long string of sexual allegations to plague the Paulks. At least three women have sued Earl Paulk and his brother, Don Paulk, over alleged sexual misconduct.

In October, the results of a court-ordered DNA paternity test revealed that Paulk is the biological father of his brother’s son, D.E. Paulk, who is now head pastor at the family’s church. A judge ordered the test at the request of the Cobb County district attorney’s office and the Georgia Bureau of Investigation, which are investigating Earl Paulk for possible perjury and false-swearing charges stemming from a lawsuit.

The archbishop, his brother and the church are being sued by former church employee Mona Brewer, who says Earl Paulk manipulated her into an affair from 1989 to 2003 by telling her it was her only path to salvation. Earl Paulk admitted to the affair in front of the church last January.

In a 2006 deposition stemming from the lawsuit, the archbishop said under oath that the only woman he had ever had sex with outside of his marriage was Brewer. But the paternity test said otherwise.

As part of Brewer’s lawsuit, eight women have given sworn depositions that they were coerced into sexual relationships with Earl Paulk.

So far no criminal charges have been filed against Earl Paulk. GBI spokesman John Bankhead referred questions to Cobb County District Attorney Pat Head, who did not return a call for comment on Monday, December 17.

The church began in 1960 with just a few dozen members. At its peak in the early 1990s, it claimed about 10,000 members and 24 pastors and was a media powerhouse. By soliciting tithes of 10 percent from each member’s income, the church was able to build a Bible college, two schools, a worldwide TV ministry and a $12 million sanctuary the size of a fortress.

Today, though, membership is down to about 1,500 - a downturn blamed largely on complaints about the alleged sexual scandals.

As reported by the Associated Press, a clinic in southwestern Germany said it has found the real parents of two infant girls who were mixed up and sent home with the wrong couples.

The St. Elisabeth clinic in Saarlouis, Germany plans to have the two babies returned to their biological parents within days.

The girls probably were mixed up this summer, while they were being bathed, and remained with the wrong parents for about half a year, the clinic said.

The mix-up came to light when one of the fathers took a DNA paternity test. His wife did the same, and both tests determined they were not the real parents of one of the girls.

A local councilwoman, Monika Bachmann, said psychologists would be offered to help the families deal with the clinic’s mistake.

Over the past year, Bad Boy founder Sean ‘Diddy’ Combs has repeatedly denied that he had fathered a baby with an Atlanta woman named Sarah Chapman.

Now that the results of a DNA Paternity Test are in however, he can no longer deny that he is the father. His new daughter’s name is Chance and Diddy now says that he is ready to be a “committed father.” Chance is his fifth child.
As reported in the New York Daily News, Diddy said, “At first, I wasn’t sure if this was my child. Now that it has become clear she is, I will take care of her for the rest of her life.”

Fifteen month-old daughter Chance, lives with her mother in Atlanta. According to sources, Diddy has worked out visitation and child support terms with Chapman

Diddy also indicates that he has is trying to get back with his ex-girlfriend Kim Porter, who left him in part because Diddy had tried to keep the Atlanta baby a secret. He has two daughters with Kim named Jessie James and D’Lila Star as well as a son, named Christian. Diddy also has a son, Justin, with ex-girlfriend Misa Hylton-Brim.

According to the Media, two army officers have allegedly participated in a paternity fraud.

A woman in Virginia earlier this year, sought an increase in child support from Scott Carlson, age 51, who was enrolled at the U.S. Army War College. The request was transferred to the Cumberland County Georgia Domestic Relations Office.

Carlson denied paternity to officials there and was requested to take a DNA Paternity Test. According to reports, he asked his friend Colonel Bruce Adkins to take the test in his stead, providing him with his I.D. The DNA Paternity Test proved that Carlson was not the father.

According to District Attorney David Freed, officials at the Cumberland County Domestic Relations Office suspected that the man who took the test was not Carlson.

Now both men face charges of tampering with physical evidence, tampering with public records or information, obstruction of the administration of law, criminal conspiracy, forgery and other crimes.

It is routine during a properly conducted DNA Paternity Test for the identification of the individuals to be verified by taking fingerprints and photographs as well as obtaining signatures and checking photo identification.

Since the beginning, Eddie Murphy has been less than the perfect mate for Spice Girl Mel B, and not much of a father to their daughter Angel Iris. He ended the couples relationship on Dutch television last year when Mel was five months pregnant-not nice Eddie! Then he refused to name himself as the father of Angel Iris until he and his daughter submitted to a DNA Paternity Test which proved that he was the daddy.

The current legal battle however, is over how much Mel B is entitled to collect from Shrek star Eddie Murphy in the way of child support for Angel Iris. The two stars will battle that out in court in Los Angeles on November 14, 2007 which just happens to be one day before Mel B and the rest of the Spice Girls kick off their world tour. According the the Daily Mirror, Eddie Murphy is also refusing to see Angel.