Editing Muhammad Ali (section)

====Paternity claims====
Kiiursti Mensah-Ali claims she is Ali's biological daughter with Barbara Mensah, with whom he allegedly had a 20-year relationship,<ref>{{Cite magazine |title=Muhammad Ali confesses illness put a stop to his 'girl chasing,' but his son is just starting. |magazine=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |via=Google Books |access-date=March 14, 2017 |date=January 27, 1997 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=LjsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32 |volume=91 |number=10 |pages=32–33  |issn=0021-5996 |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031224051/https://books.google.com/books?id=LjsDAAAAMBAJ&pg=PA32#v=onepage&q&f=false |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Miller |first=Davis |url=https://archive.seattletimes.com/archive/19930912/1720560/still-larger-than-life----to-millions-muhammad-ali-will-always-be-the-champ |title=Still Larger Than Life – To Millions, Muhammad Ali Will Always Be The Champ |work=The Seattle Times |access-date=May 3, 2021 |date=September 12, 1993 |archive-date=June 10, 2022 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220610105241/http://community.seattletimes.nwsource.com/archive/?date=19930912 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=mzTW9Nitee4C |title=Entertainment Celebrities |first=Norbert B. |last=Laufenberg |publisher=Trafford Publishing |year=2005 |access-date=December 5, 2010 |isbn=978-1-4120-5335-8 |page=9 |archive-date=October 31, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20231031224604/https://books.google.com/books?id=mzTW9Nitee4C |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last=Bollinger |first=Rhett |url=http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090611&content_id=5270622&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |title=Angels draft boxing legend Ali's son |publisher=Major League Baseball |access-date=June 5, 2016 |archive-date=August 19, 2014 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140819082741/http://mlb.mlb.com/news/article.jsp?ymd=20090611&content_id=5270622&vkey=news_mlb&fext=.jsp&c_id=mlb |url-status=live }}</ref> citing photographs and a paternity test conducted in 1988. She said he accepted responsibility and took care of her, but all contacts with him were cut off after he married his fourth wife Lonnie. Kiiursti says she has a relationship with his other children. After his death she again made passionate appeals to be allowed to mourn at his funeral.<ref>{{cite news |last=Bucktin |first=Christopher |title=Muhammad Ali's secret daughter begs to see boxing legend one more time 'before he dies' |url=https://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/muhammad-alis-secret-daughter-begs-4256662 |work=[[Daily Mirror]] |date=September 13, 2014 |access-date=June 6, 2016 |archive-date=June 5, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160605081930/http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/world-news/muhammad-alis-secret-daughter-begs-4256662 |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite web |url=http://omgvoice.com/news/kiiursti-mensah-ali/ |title=6 Facts About Kiiursti Mensah Ali, Muhammed Ali's Ghanaian Daughter You Need To Know (''sic'') |author=Ofori-Mensah |publisher=omgvoice.com |date=June 5, 2016 |access-date=June 6, 2016 |archive-date=June 6, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160606123844/http://omgvoice.com/news/kiiursti-mensah-ali/ |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite news |last1=Foster |first1=Peter |last2=Allen |first2=Nick |title=Muhammad Ali's tangled love life leaves troubled legacy |url=https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/04/muhammad-alis-tangled-love-life-leaves-troubled-legacy/ |archive-url=https://ghostarchive.org/archive/20220110/https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2016/06/04/muhammad-alis-tangled-love-life-leaves-troubled-legacy/ |archive-date=January 10, 2022 |url-access=subscription |url-status=live |work=[[The Daily Telegraph]] |date=June 4, 2016 |access-date=June 6, 2016}}{{cbignore}}</ref>

In 2010, Osmon Williams came forward claiming to be Ali's biological son.<ref>{{cite news |title=Ali's alleged lovechild talks to tabloids |url=http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/157579/Ali-s-alleged-lovechild-talks-to-tabloids |work=[[The Daily Express]] |date=February 11, 2010 |access-date=October 15, 2016 |archive-date=October 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019012508/http://www.express.co.uk/celebrity-news/157579/Ali-s-alleged-lovechild-talks-to-tabloids |url-status=live }}</ref> His mother Temica Williams (also known as Rebecca Holloway) launched a $3&nbsp;million lawsuit against Ali in 1981 for sexual assault, claiming that she had started a sexual relationship with him when she was 12, and that her son Osmon (born 1977) was fathered by Ali when she was 17.<ref>{{cite news |url=https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/04/24/An-18-year-old-woman-has-filed-suit-seeking-3-million/3454356936400/ |work=United Press International |title=An 18-year-old woman has filed suit seeking $3 million ... |access-date=May 27, 2018 |date=April 24, 1981 |archive-date=May 28, 2018 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180528052011/https://www.upi.com/Archives/1981/04/24/An-18-year-old-woman-has-filed-suit-seeking-3-million/3454356936400/ |url-status=live }}</ref> She further alleged that Ali had originally supported her and her son financially, but stopped doing so after four years. The case went on until 1986 and was eventually thrown out as her allegations were deemed to be barred by the [[statute of limitations]].<ref>{{cite web |url=http://www.allcourtdata.com/law/case/williams-v-ali/cw3BaicI?page=1 |website=All Court Data |title=''Temica Williams a/k/a Rebecca Jean Holloway, Plaintiff-Appellant, v. Muhammad Ali, Defendant-Appellee'' |access-date=October 15, 2016 |archive-date=October 19, 2016 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20161019000108/http://www.allcourtdata.com/law/case/williams-v-ali/cw3BaicI?page=1 }}</ref> According to Veronica, Ali admitted to the affair with Williams, but did not believe Osmon was his son which Veronica supported by saying "Everybody in the camp was going with that girl."<ref>{{Cite book |last=Eig |first=Jonathan |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=JzjeDQAAQBAJ&q=veronica%2Beveryone%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bcamp%2Bgirl%2Bveronica%2Btemica%2Bali&pg=PR55 |title=Ali: A Life: Shortlisted for the William Hill Sports Book of the Year 2017 |date=2017 |publisher=Simon & Schuster UK |isbn=978-1-4711-5596-3 |language=en |access-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-date=July 24, 2023 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230724230538/https://books.google.com/books?id=JzjeDQAAQBAJ&pg=PR55&q=veronica%2Beveryone%2Bin%2Bthe%2Bcamp%2Bgirl%2Bveronica%2Btemica%2Bali |url-status=live }}</ref><ref>{{cite book |last=Eig |first=Jonathan |year=2017 |title=Ali: A Life |location=London |publisher=Simon & Schuster |isbn=978-1-4711-5593-2 |oclc=968294310 |page=416}}</ref> Ali's biographer and friend [[Thomas Hauser]] has said this claim was of "questionable veracity".<ref>{{Cite news |date=September 29, 2017 |title='Ali: A Life': A biography that's not The Greatest – The Ring |language=en-US |work=The Ring |url=https://www.ringtv.com/518783-ali-life-biography-thats-not-greatest/ |access-date=September 6, 2020 |archive-date=May 17, 2021 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20210517164140/https://www.ringtv.com/518783-ali-life-biography-thats-not-greatest/ |url-status=live }}</ref>