The father of Brandon Blackstock’s girlfriend, Brittney Marie Jones, paid tribute to the late talent manager following Blackstock’s death at age 48 last week. “Yesterday we lost a good man Brandon Blackstock my daughter’s soulmate and I considered him my son,

Brandon Blackstock, Kelly Clarkson's ex-husband, was in a “loving” relationship with Brittney Marie Jones, her former production assistant and his executive assistant, at the time of his death, according to an obituary shared online by his family.

"Yesterday we lost a good man Brandon Blackstock my daughter's soulmate and I considered him my son," he wrote in the Facebook post.