He’s pro-football Hall of Famer, turned incredible actor, Jim Brown!
I know what many are probably thinking: “Jim is much older than Ola Ray, right?” Correct, he is, but here’s the thing, Jim likes much younger women. Ola Ray is 25 years his junior (Ola is 54) and his wife, Monique Brown, is 38 years his junior. Monique is 41 and Jim is 79. Wow! (See pics of Jim and his wife on page 4 of this story.)
Okay so back to Jim and Ola Ray’s paternity test. Apparently Ola Ray believed that her former boyfriend was the father of her daughter, Iam, and here is what she explained in a 2002 interview with People magazine:
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Ray herself admits, “I got involved in the drug scene.” Following a 1992 bust for cocaine possession, she agreed to spend nine months in a Tarzana, Calif., treatment facility.
After getting out she moved in with ex-football-great-turned-actor Jim Brown, whom she had met at the Playboy Mansion. “She is a good-hearted person,” says Brown. But Ray, he says, resumed her drug habit, resulting in their breakup a few months later. Ray denies she backslid and says she left Brown because he treated her badly.
Brown later found himself the defendant in a 1999 paternity suit filed by Ray on behalf of daughter Iam. At the time, Ray was living with an L.A. real estate broker with whom she got involved shortly after leaving Brown. She had at first assumed the new man in her life had impregnated her. But she says she began having doubts when Iam turned 3, “because every time he’d pick her up, she’d scream.”
DNA tests proved that neither he nor Brown was Iam’s father. Ray then asked her longtime friend Terry Clark to be tested. “The baby turned out to be mine,” says Clark, 47, a CBS cameraman. “It was a big shock to me.” He and Ray, off-and-on lovers since 1987, had had a one-night stand around the time she and Brown broke up. Now he is paying more than $1,000 a month in child support. “I totally love my little girl,” he says. “She did a good job bringing the kid up; it’s made Ola a better person.”
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Here are more details about how Ola Ray dealt with the fame after her face was thrusted into the limelight on the “Thriller” video:
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For Ray, the truly scary part occurred after Thriller‘s release. “I had no idea it was going to be that big,” she says of the video, which sold a million copies over the next decade and now ranks No. 1 on MTV’s list of the 100 Greatest Videos Ever Made. “Every magazine in the world was calling me. People were knocking at my door. I freaked out. I hid.”
And then things got worse. The years that followed turned out to be nightmarish, as the struggling actress became…
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