In Indecent Proposal, Robert Redford offered Demi Moore $1 million to spend one night with him, on current prices that figure would have risen to $106 million had Robert Redford offered to rape Demi Moore at gunpoint – well, that's James Brown's rate.
Allegedly. Jacque Hollander, a former employee of James Brown, has spent the last few years chasing $106 million in damages by claiming that James Brown raped her at gunpoint while she was working for him – but yesterday a court sort of decided that he didn't. In actual fact, a court decided two years ago that Hollander had waited too long too long to pursue the claim, and an appeals court dismissed the case yesterday. Just as well for James Brown; if he had been found guilty of raping Jacque Hollander at gunpoint, he'd have been forced to spend the next couple of years propped up against a wall in a really nasty prison.
When James Brown died on Christmas day, many thought that the singer would finally get the rest he'd denied himself throughout his lifetime – a lifetime of being raised in a brothel, singing some songs, punching women, taking drugs and possibly raping the occasional employee at gunpoint.
But aside from a peaceful mouth-to-corpse kiss from Michael Jackson just after Christmas, James Brown has had nothing like rest. His body stayed unburied as his family squabbled over his will, with James Brown's son James Brown Jr left out of the will entirely. James Brown's burial was even held up for a DNA extraction to satisfy the flood of women coming forward to claim James Brown was the father of their children, but at least we know that James Brown didn't rape Jacque Hollander at gunpoint. Unless he did, which he really might have done. The courts have chucked the case out so we'll never know. E! Online reports:
Jacque Hollander petitioned the high court in November to take up her cause after a federal appeals court upheld a judge's decision to dismiss the suit in 2005, saying she had waited too long to sue. The statute of limitations on a case such as Hollander's is two years, meaning she would have had to file back in 1990, instead of in 2005 when she actually filed her complaint. Hollander's attorney, Donald Rosen, had argued that his client was diagnosed with a thyroid condition in 2000 that she learned in 2003 was linked to the stress she had suffered as a result of the 1988 assault. Because the cause-and-effect hadn't been established until 2003, Hollander was well within her right to begin legal proceedings, Rosen said.
If this James Brown gunpoint rape really did happen, then Jacque Hollander must be in tatters at the moment – not only will the courts not listen to her story seriously but she's also lost any chance of getting hold of that $106 million that she was after.
Plus, if she'd won the $106 million rape money from James Brown, it would have really skewed the way that we see everything around us. For instance, judging by the recent divorce settlement that Kevin Federline was handed, we've calculated that one quick gunpoint rape from James Brown costs the equivalent of 53 years of marriage to Britney Spears. Given the choice, do you really know which one you'd pick?
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Adam Gade says
Well, Anand Jon has more rapes under his belt…but if this is true, Brown gets the gold for the most recent and shocking famous person rape case.
Ifeelgoodtrust says
http://www.scribd.com/doc/111245436/Buddy-Dallas-Affidavit
Buddy Dallas Affidavit
This Affidavit proves Jacque Hollander is the 50% partner of James Brown’s “I feel good trust”.