Doctor who signed soul legend’s death certificate airs doubts, while suspicions also raised over death of Brown’s third wife, Adrienne
More than a dozen people have called for a new inquiry into the death of soul and funk legend James Brown, in a major CNN investigation that hears allegations that he and wife Adrienne Brown were murdered.
Brown died following a short illness on Christmas Day, 2006. The doctor who signed his death certificate tells CNN he has suspicions about the swiftness of Brown’s deterioration, especially after his condition had improved the previous day. “He changed too fast,” Marvin Crawford says. “He was a patient I would never have predicted would have coded ... But he died that night, and I did raise that question: What went wrong in that room?” Crawford says a nurse told him drug residue was found in a tube helping Brown to breathe, and says “somebody perhaps could have given him an illicit substance that led to his death”.
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