The body that was James Brown until early Christmas morning has still not been buried. According to sources in South Carolina, the same legal issues that have Brown’s “widow,” Tomi Rae, locked out of the musician’s mansion are holding up the burial. Talk about family feuds.

“The hope is that all parties can sit down and figure out what the problem is and what the challenges are,” attorney Thornton Morris said. “And once we figure out what the challenges are we’ll see if we can’t resolve something that’s a win for everybody,” says Tomi Rae’s lawyer.

Tuesday just wasn’t a good day for the dearly departed. One Jacque Hollander accused James of raping her twenty years ago, and has petitioned the Supreme Court to have a sexual harrassment lawsuit filed against the estate.

“As a rape victim, I will never get to face him in court, and it hurts,” Hollander said. “But we are moving forward. We filed against his organization, as well as him. So now his organization stands in front of him.”

Whether or not James Brown’s body will make it into the ground before he becomes a fossil is still up in the air.