Muhammad Ali has been married four times - and has had to square up to more than one of them during their feisty relationships.
His first wife, who he married in 1964, Sonji Roi, left him after little more than a year of marriage, claiming that he had coerced her into adopting Muslim dress and customs.
After the divorce, she complained that Elijah Mohammad’s Nation of Islam had “stolen” Ali’s mind and threatened her with reprisals.
She was quoted as saying: “I wasn’t going to take on all the Muslims. If I had, I probably would have ended up dead.”
In 1967 he married Belinda Boyd, who converted to Islam and changed her name to Khalilah Camacho-Ali after their wedding.
It was the same year he refused to be inducted into the Army and was immediately stripped of his heavyweight title .
Khalilah was a 17-year-old bride, and went on to bear him four children Maryum, born a year later, Jamillah and Liban, both born in 1970, and Muhammad Ali Jr., who arrived in 1972.
The couple divorced in 1976.
Veronica Porsche and Ali tied the knot in 1977 and became his third wife.
She is the mother of his two daughters, Ali and Porsche had begun a relationship in 1974 while in Kinshasa, Zaire when Porsche was 18 years old.
She was one of the four poster girls who had promoted the Rumble in the Jungle fight in Zaire versus George Foreman.
Porsche and Ali were then married in Los Angeles and divorced in December 1986.
Ali then married his fourth wife, Yolanda Williams the same year.
He has nine children, most of whom have chosen to avoid the spotlight of which Ali was so fond.
One of his daughters, however, Laila Ali, is pursuing a career as a professional boxer.
