James Brown has had a Tupac-like ability to remain in the news despite no longer being alive, and this weekend he managed to gain a couple kids he never claimed while he was alive.

One of the late soul singer's advisers said that nearly a dozen people who claim Brown is their father have taken DNA tests. Those tests show at least 2 people are telling the truth.

One of them is identified as LaRhonda Petitt, a 45-year-old retired flight attendant and teacher in Houston.

Petitt told the Augusta Chronicle newspaper in George that her mother became Brown's girlfriend in the early 1960s.

She's angry Brown never acknowledged her as his daughter, telling the paper she "could have had a better life."

I'm with you LaRhonda Petitt. I'd be pissed too, financially speaking, but having a dad with noted substance abuse and domestic violence issues probably isn't a walk in the park.

[NBCSD]