Editing Sugar Ray Robinson (section)

==Personal life==
[[File:Sugar Ray Robinson with wife 1956.jpg|thumb|Sugar Ray Robinson with wife [[Edna Mae Robinson|Edna Mae]] in 1956]]

Robinson married Marjorie Joseph in 1938; the marriage was annulled the same year. Their son, [[Ronnie Robinson (roller derby)|Ronnie Smith]], was born on September 25, 1938.<ref>{{cite web|title=Ronnie Robinson|url=https://derbymemoirs.bankedtrack.info/mem_Robinson_Ronnie.html|first=Phil|last=Berrier|work=Derby Memoirs}}</ref> Robinson met his second wife [[Edna Mae Robinson|Edna Mae Holly]], a noted dancer who performed at the [[Cotton Club (New York City)|Cotton Club]] and toured Europe with [[Duke Ellington]] and [[Cab Calloway]]. According to Robinson, he met her at a local pool he frequented after his boxing workouts. In an attempt to get her attention he pushed her into the pool one day, and said it was an accident.<ref name="pool">Robinson and Anderson, pp. 91–2.</ref> After this attempt was met with disdain, he appeared at the nightclub she danced at and introduced himself. Soon the couple were dating and they married in 1944.<ref>{{cite web |url=https://vault.si.com/vault/1987/07/13/bittersweet-twilight-for-sugar-sugar-ray-robinson-loved-high-living-but-now-the-great-fighters-health-is-failing-and-his-name-has-been-usurped |title=Bittersweet Twilight for Sugar |last=Wiley |first=Ralph |author-link=Ralph Wiley |date=July 13, 1987 |website=Sports Illustrated Vault |language=en-us}}</ref> They had one son, Ray Robinson Jr. (born 1949) before their acrimonious divorce in 1962.<ref>{{cite magazine| date=December 1989| title=Remembering Sugar Ray: Edna Mae Robinson recalls the glitter and pain of her past| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rMwDAAAAMBAJ&q=Edna+Mae+Robinson+divorce&pg=PA74| magazine=[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]]| volume=XLV| issue=2| pages=74, 76, 78}}</ref>

In April 1959, Robinson's eldest sister, Marie, died of cancer at the age of 41.<ref>[https://www.nytimes.com/1959/04/21/archives/ray-robinsonssister-dies.html "Ray Robinson's' Sister Dies"]. ''The New York Times'', April 21, 1959. Retrieved June 6, 2007.</ref>

In December 1959, Barbara Johnson (aka Barbara Trevigne) of South Ozone Park, a singer and dancer, brought a paternity suit in New York against the former champ, claiming Sugar Ray Robinson was the father of her son Paul born in 1953. On May 18, 1963, ''Jet'' reported that the court had ruled in Robinson's favor. Robinson is quoted exulting at the win saying "Justice triumphed."<ref>{{cite magazine| url=https://books.google.com/books?id=GrQDAAAAMBAJ&q=barbara+trevigne+sugar+ray+robinson&pg=PA54| title=Sugar Beats Paternity Suit On His 40th Birthday| magazine=Jet| page=54| date=May 18, 1961| volume=XX| issue=4| access-date=January 18, 2021}}</ref>

In 1965, Robinson married Millie Wiggins Bruce and the couple settled in Los Angeles.<ref name="Answers">[http://www.answers.com/topic/sugar-ray-robinson Sugar Ray Robinson], ''Contemporary Black Biography'', [[Thomson Gale|The Gale Group]], 2006 {{ISBN|0-7876-7927-5}}, via [[Answers.com]]. Retrieved June 6, 2007.</ref> When Robinson was sick with his various ailments, his son accused the elder Robinson's wife of keeping him under the influence of medication to manipulate him. According to Ray Robinson Jr., when Robinson Sr.'s mother died, he could not attend his mother's funeral because Millie was drugging and controlling him.<ref name="Wiley">Wiley. p. 221</ref> However, Robinson had been hospitalized the day before his mother's death due to agitation which caused his blood pressure to rise. Robinson Jr., and Edna Mae likewise said that Millie kept them away from Robinson during his last years.<ref name="Wiley"/>

Robinson was a [[Freemason]], a membership shared with a number of other athletes, including fellow boxer [[Jack Dempsey]].<ref>{{cite magazine |date=May 14, 2013 |url=https://www.usnews.com/listings/freemasons/10-athletes |title=Famous Free Masons: Athletes |magazine=[[U.S. News & World Report]] |access-date=January 18, 2021 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120718211456/http://www.usnews.com/listings/freemasons/10-athletes |archive-date=July 18, 2012}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.mastermason.com/wilmettepark/wellknownmasons.html |title=Well Known Freemasons |website=Grand Lodge of British Columbia A.F. & A. M |access-date=February 13, 2013}}</ref>