Behind the immortal legend of Muhammad Ali lay a distinctly mortal private life that saw the great boxer married four times and have at least nine children – including two love-children - leaving behind a complex and divisive family legacy that threatens to tarnish his memory.
In the years before Ali’s death, family disputes have broken out into the open between his last wife and widow, Yolanda “Lonnie” Williams, and Ali’s younger brother, Rahman, and his estranged only son, Muhammad Ali Jr.
A cousin of Ali’s cousin, Charlotte Waddell, also claimed in an interview two years ago that Lonnie “controls everything” that Ali does, admitting to The Daily Mail, that “I can’t stand to be around her. It wouldn’t take me two seconds to spit in her face!”