How Did James Brown Die?
Officially, James Brown died of heart failure on Christmas Day in 2006. (After a lifetime of cocaine and PCP use, it only makes sense that his heart finally gave out.) However, after his death, the rumors stared swirling about the circumstances of his passing. Brown, who was 73 at the time, died in a hospital in the presence of only one person: his personal manager, Charles Bobbit.
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Unofficially, it’s believed by those who were close to him — even the doctor who treated him the night he died — that the singer didn’t die of natural causes. “He changed too fast,” Marvin Crawford, the doctor who treated him, stated.