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‘Muhammad Ali’s wife has stopped me from seeing my father,’ claims his son

‘Muhammad Ali’s wife has stopped me from seeing my father’, says boxing legend’s son who lives on food stamps in the ghetto and shovels snow for a few dollars

Muhammad Ali Junior, 41, is the boxer’s son from his second marriage
His father has a total of nine children – seven daughters, Muhammad Ali Jnr and an adopted son Assaad
But Muhammad Ali Jnr claims he has been cut off from his father since he married his fourth wife Lonnie
He tried to call him on his 72nd birthday this month but couldn’t get through
Muhammad Ali Jnr says he wants nothing more than to spend some time with his father who is in the advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease

By SUZANNAH HILLS
PUBLISHED: 13:36, 26 January 2024 | UPDATED: 15:00, 26 January 2024

The son of boxing champion Muhammad Ali has accused the millionaire’s wife of refusing to let him see his ailing father.

Muhammad Ali Junior, 41, who says he is forced to survive on food stamps in a rough Chicago neighbourhood, last saw his father on his 71st birthday a year ago.

But as the legendary boxer turned 72 on January 17, Muhammad Ali Junior claims he couldn’t even get through on the phone to wish him a happy birthday.

He alleges his father’s fourth wife of 27 years, Lonnie, has made it increasingly difficult for him to see or even speak to the retired sportsman who is in the advanced stages of Parkinson’s disease.

Ongoing family feud: Muhammad Ali Junior, 41, pictured left, claims he has been stopped from seeing his boxing champion father, pictured right in 2024, by his fourth wife Lonnie

‘Controlling’: Lonnie, pictured with husband Muhammad Ali in 2024, has been accused of preventing members of the the boxer’s family from seeing or even speaking to him

He says more than anything he wants to see his father before he dies.

The boxer had nine children in total – seven daughter, Muhammad Ali Junior and Asaad, 22, who he adopted with Lonnie.

Muhammad Ali Junior, who lives in a tiny two bedroom flat with his wife Shaakira and two daughters Ameera, six, and Shakera, five, says he has repeatedly tried to contact his father on the phone but doesn’t have the money to make the trip to his Kentucky mansion.

He told The Sun On Sunday: ‘As soon as he married Lonnie, that’s when the problems started. We can’t see him any more. He can’t see his own brother because of Lonnie.

‘I tried calling him on his birthday but got no answer. When I call, they usually say he’s in the shower, sleeping or in therapy, and to call back.

Muhammad Ali Jnr claims he tried to contact his father, pictured in 2024, on his birthday earlier this month but he couldn’t get through. He alleges that the boxer’s fourth wife Lonnie never allows him to speak to his father

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Act of kindness: Lonnie Ali’s supporters insist she is merely defending her husband from family members who wish to leech off his fame

‘When I do they don’t answer. I shouldn’t need an appointment to to see my father.’

Muhammad Ali Junior, who was born in 1972 to the boxer’s second wife 17-year-old Belinda Boyd, believes Lonnie may have cut him out because he is unemployed and doesn’t own a house or a car.

The father-of-two says he has been trying to find a job but few people are hiring so he now shovels snow off his neighbours driveway just to make a few dollars to feed his family.

He believes his father would help him with his current financial situation if he were still coherent, but says that is no longer the case.

But he insists he doesn’t care about his father’s money, he just wants to be allowed back into his life and to spend as much time together as possible in the time he has left.
Those who have defended Lonnie claim she is protecting Muhammad Ali from family members who want to sponge off his fame.
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Showman: Muhammad Ali, seen in the ring in the Democratic Republic of the Congo in 1974, was unfaithful to his wives

Glamour: Ali with third wife Veronica, who the boxer declared was ‘the world’s most beautiful black woman’

Nicole Kidman’s father dies after fall

Nicole Kidman’s father, a well-known clinical psychologist at the University of Technology in Sydney, died Friday.

Dr. Antony Kidman was visiting Nicole’s sister, Antonia and his grandchildren, in Singapore where he reportedly fell after breakfast in his hotel room, reports The Daily Mail.

Police said they are investigating the “unnatural” death,” which is often referred to falls and accidents in the Asian nation. No other details about his sudden passing are available.

“It is with great sadness that we learn of Dr. Tony Kidman’s sudden passing,” said Vice Chancellor Professor Attila Brungs. “During his 43 years at the University of Technology, Sydney, Tony has contributed greatly—as a colleague, as a researcher, and as a health practitioner. Tony will be missed by all at UTS. Our thoughts are with his family at this time.”

Nicole’s publicist and family friend, Wendy Day, told the site, “The family is in shock and is grieving … I think that some time and privacy is needed to deal with this shock and tragedy.”

Nicole Kidmanâ€™s father dies after fall | Page Six

Father Apparently Confesses to Family’s Murder in Facebook Post

Father Apparently Confesses to Family’s Murder in Facebook Post

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Brendan O’ConnorFiled to: randy janzen

5/09/15 11:10am

A British Columbia man has Apparently admitted in a Facebook Post to killing his family, CBC News reports. The Post on Randy Janzen’s Facebook page states that he killed his wife, his daughter, and his sister.

According to CBC News, homicide investigators confirmed on Friday that several bodies were discovered in two separate homes “following information from social media that had been shared with them.”
The homicide investigation comes after police confronted a man on Thursday at one of the houses where the bodies were later found, CBC News reports. The confrontation ended when the house went up in flames.
Police said that the bodies are believed to be members of the same family, and that the suspect is believed to be among them, but would not confirm their identities.
In the Post on his Facebook page, Janzen Apparently describes his daughter Emily’s struggle with migraines. “I just could not see my little girl hurt for one more second,” the Post reads. “I took a gun and shot her in the head and now she is migraine free.”
“Then I shot Laurel because a mother should never have hear the news her baby has died.”

“Then a couple of days later my sister *****y because I did not want her to have to live with this shame I have caused all alone.”
“Now my family is pain free and in heaven. I have great remorse for my actions and feel like the dirt that I am. I am taking full responsibility for my actions of these murders. So sorry to anyone I have hurt. Rest in peace my little family.”

Father Apparently Confesses to Family’s Murder in Facebook Post

Girl, 5, Dies After Father Drops Her From Top of Bridge

Florida girl dies after father throws her off a bridge: police

Florida girl Dies After Father throws her off a bridge: police

By Letitia Stein 2 hours ago

By Letitia Stein

TAMPA, Fla. (Reuters) – A 5-year-old Florida girl was pronounced dead early on Thursday After her Father threw her over the side of a bridge, a 62-foot drop into frigid waters, police in St. Petersburg said.
The father, John Jonchuck Jr., 25, was driving about 100 miles per hour when he sped past an officer just After midnight heading toward the Sunshine Skyway Bridge over Tampa Bay, police said in a statement.
The officer followed the driver and soon found Jonchuck waiting near the top of an approach to the bridge, said St. Petersburg police Chief Anthony Holloway.
The Father opened a passenger door and removed his daughter, placing her face toward him. He then threw her over the Bridge railing, Holloway said.
He drove off at a normal speed as the officer began searching for the child.
"You just throw this baby away like it’s nothing," the chief said at a news conference.
Phoebe Jonchuck’s **** was found in the water about an hour and a half later and roughly a half-mile From the bridge, police said, noting it was a windy night with fast-moving currents.
John Jonchuck was stopped by authorities in nearby Manatee County and taken in custody. An empty pink carseat was sitting in the back of his vehicle.
He was arrested on charges of first-degree murder, aggravated fleeing and eluding and aggravated assault with a motor vehicle on a law enforcement officer.
Holloway said Jonchuck lived with his parents in Tampa and had custody of the child.
Jonchuck may have mental issues, the chief said, and officers were investigating whether drugs or alcohol were involved.
A court appearance for Jonchuck was scheduled for Thursday afternoon.
(Reporting by Letitia Stein; Writing and additional reporting by Colleen Jenkins; Editing by Bill Trott)

Florida girl dies after father throws her off a bridge: police

Robert De Niro Opens Up About His Gay Father

https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/ce…003210169

Robert De Niro Opens Up About His Gay Father
By Jeremy Blacklow

Robert De Niro (Platon/OUT Magazine)
From Taxi Driver and The Godfather, to Silver Linings Playbook and American Hustle, Robert De Niro is one of the most accomplished working actors alive today.

Never short on extracurricular activities (he and producing partner Jane Rosenthal just wrapped their 13th Tribeca Film Festival last month), De Niro’s latest project is a touching ********ary About his father, Robert De Niro Sr. — a New York artist who was revered by his son, but struggled his whole life with being gay.

Although his Father died 20 years ago from cancer, De Niro has been committed to preserving his legacy. The doc called Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival and is set to air June 9 on HBO.

The 70-year-old actor recently opened up to Out About the relationship he had with his dad while giving the magazine a personalized tour of his father’s final home and art studio in Soho, which he maintains as if a working artist still lives there. "It was the only way to keep his being, his existence alive here," he explained.

When it comes to his father’s sexuality, De Niro said it was something that his Father was very conflicted About his whole life. "Yeah, he probably was [conflicted]," he told Out. "Being from that generation, especially from a small town upstate. I was not aware, much, of it," adding that his family’s bottled up emotions were a product of the times. "I wish we had spoken About it much more. My mother didn’t want to talk About things in general, and you’re not interested when you’re a certain age."

Growing up, he and his Father were distant. "We were not the type of Father and son who played ****ball together, as you can surmise," he continued. "But we had a connection. I wasn’t with him a lot, because my mother and he were separated and divorced. As I say in the ********ary, I looked after him in certain ways."

Still, he learned from his father’s struggles. "Again, for my kids, I want them to stop and take a moment and realize that you sometimes have to do things now instead of later, because later may be 20 years from now — and that’s too late."

When asked whether or not his dad’s sexuality influenced the roles he had played over the years, De Niro said, "No, [because] they weren’t offered to me. If they had been offered to me by a good director, that’s something I would have considered."

The ********ary, however, is one that he says he felt obligated to produce. "It was my responsibility to make a ********ary About him," he said. "I was always planning on doing it, but never did. Then Jane Rosenthal, my partner at Tribeca [Enterprises], said, ‘We should start doing that now.’ It was not intended to be on HBO. It was just something I wanted to do."

Remembering the Artist: Robert De Niro, Sr. premieres June 9 at 9 p.m. ET/PT on HBO. Watch the trailer below:
https://celebrity.yahoo.com/blogs/ce…003210169

Chris Brown Is Some****’s Father

Chris Brown

Surprise …

I’m a Father!

3/3/2015 6:31 PM PST BY TMZ STAFF

EXCLUSIVE

Chris Brown is the proud Father of a 9-month-old baby girl … TMZ has learned.

The baby’s mother is a 31-year-old former model named Nia–who we’re told has known Chris for several years.
Sources connected to both Nia and Chris tell us they are on very good terms — however they’re not together romantically. We’re told 25-year-old Chris is happy about being a father.
It does not appear there is a formal child support order in place — and we do not know the nature of any informal terms of support.
One thing’s for sure … baby girl looks a lot like Daddy.

Chris Brown — Surprise, I’m a Father! | TMZ.com

Victoria Sellers was convinced by a psychic to forgive her father, Peter Sellers

A psychic convinced me to forgive Dad: How Peter Sellers’s daughter came to terms with being left out of his £5.5 million will

When the Pink Panther star died of a heart attack in 1980, aged 54
He left the bulk of his £5.5 million fortune to his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick
Victoria was left just £800 – with a further £10,000 for her education

By CAROLINE GRAHAM
PUBLISHED: 01:51, 11 May 2024 | UPDATED: 04:33, 11 May 2024

Peter Sellers’s daughter has revealed how a visit to a psychic persuaded her to forgive the comedian after he apologised for excluding her from his will.

When the Pink Panther and Goons star died of a heart attack in 1980, aged 54, he left the bulk of his £5.5 million fortune to his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick, whom Victoria ‘loathed’ and Sellers was divorcing.

Victoria, his only child with his second wife Britt Ekland, was left just £800 – with a further £10,000 for her education.

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Victoria with her father in Monte Carol in 1968. When the Pink Panther and Goons star died of a heart attack in 1980, aged 54, he left Victoria, his only child just £800

The actor’s estate, valued at £20 million today, ended up going to Frederick’s young daughter, Cassie Unger, the product of a later marriage to Californian heart doctor Barry Unger, after her mother drank herself to death in 1994.

It was only after Victoria, 49, visited a psychic last November that she came to terms with her father’s decision.

‘What happened was so profound I couldn’t ignore it,’ she said.
‘The guy didn’t know who I was. I went there with a folder, which I kept closed, which had a picture of me, Dad, my Swedish grandma and a couple of letters from my father written on his favourite Gucci notepaper.

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Peter Sellers pictured with fourth wife Lynn Fredericks in 1978. He left the bulk of his £5.5¿million fortune to his fourth wife, Lynne Frederick, whom Victoria ¿loathed¿

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Peter Sellers and Britt Ekland in 1964. Victoria, his only child with his second wife Britt

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A scene from the film ‘The Pink Panther’ (1963) starring Peter Sellers

‘The medium said my father wanted to apologise. He said Dad was proud of me for surviving what I’d been through and that none of it had been meant to happen, that he was sorry.

‘People might think I’m nuts but it was what I needed to hear. After all these years it was time to let go of the anger. I sobbed my heart out.

‘I went home and took out photographs of him that I’d kept hidden away for years. I looked up and said, “It’s OK Dad, we’re good.” ’

Victoria rents a room in West Hollywood and works at a restaurant.

After a lifelong battle with alcohol and drug addiction, she has been clean for three years.
She has two half-siblings, Sarah and Michael, from her father’s first marriage to actress Anne Howe.

Sarah shuns the limelight, running a teddy bear shop in London, while Michael died in 2024, aged 52.

Victoria said: ‘They missed out on the legacy, too. Dad’s will didn’t just hurt me, it hurt the whole family. We never contested it because under British law you can only contest a will if you are left nothing. We were left a paltry amount.’

Victoria would like to come to an agreement with Ms Unger, who controls the Sellers fortune, including the rights to his ****.

She said: ‘Cassie can keep all Dad’s millions. All I want is the right to use my father’s ****. It belongs to us, his family. And there are home movies of me and Dad I’ve never seen. I’ve given up on wanting any money. But I’d love to see those movies.’

Read more: A psychic convinced me to forgive Dad: How Peter Sellers’s daughter came to terms with being left out of his Â£5.5 million will | Mail Online

Christopher Reeve’s Son Matthew Remembers His Iconic Father 10 Years After Death

Christopher Reeve’s Son Matthew Remembers His Iconic Father 10 Years After Death

This past Friday marked 10 Years since the Death of acting great Christopher Reeve.
The "Superman" icon, who died in 2024 at the age of 52, was not only a film legend but a force in the world of spinal cord injury treatment, having suffered an injury himself in 1995. That injury left him confined to a wheelchair for the rest of his life.

Matthew Reeve, the actor’s son and champion for the Christopher and Dana Reeve Foundation, came out to Comic Con in New York over the weekend to reminisce about his late Father and reveal "The Big Idea" campaign, which has introduced a device that has dramatically changed the lives of four injured individuals through epidural stimulation. The device has helped these men "to recover voluntary movements" with their legs and even stand, according to the organization’s website.

Reeve – flanked by four wheelchair-bound men, all wearing Superman shirts – addressed the audience at Comic Con on Saturday, by sharing what his famous Father was like in everyday life.

"I absolutely understand how everyone sees him as Superman," Reeve said. "To me he was dad and he was just awesome. He could fly an airplane, he could sail a boat, he was an accomplished piano player. Just the other day, I found some of his stuff and it had this sheet music in it … To me, it looked like someone had just taken ink and thrown it at the page, but he minored in music theory."

Reeve, 34, added that things like "table manners" were important in his household and "all the stuff that dads and kids usually go through. He was also gigantic, 6-foot-4 and muscular, so even more intimidating. But he was just great, really wonderful."
Some of Matthew’s favorite memories of his Father include "being with him in the cockpit of his plane."

"I can’t tell you what an avionics dashboard means to a little kid," he said. "I was sitting there and there were just screens and buttons and hinges … By the time I was 9, 10, or 11, I was a bit more responsible and I would do stuff like lower the landing gear, lower the flaps and do fun stuff like that. We got to the stage, we would do certain approaches … just that, it’s just the two of you. You’re up 10,000, 12,000, 15,000 feet in the air; you’re spending time."

After the Comic Con panel, Reeve spoke to ABC News and touched on his father’s untouchable legacy as Superman.

"Superman was the original superhero and dad did such a fantastic job in his performance that for a lot of people, he just personified the role so strongly that it almost be impossible to disassociate," he said. "Still to this day, which is a source of pride."

PHOTO: Christopher Reeve and son Matthew Reeve during "Magical Birthday Bash" to Benefit The Christopher Reeve Paralysis Foundation at Marriott Marquis in New York, Sept. 25, 2024.

Reeve, a producer, director and writer in his own right, said his Father was even more impressive After he suffered the horse riding accident that left him paralyzed almost 20 Years ago.

"It was incredible to see really a ****morphosis, an evolution. I mean, he was always an advocate before," he said. "But to really take on this cause and become the voice of a whole community of people that previously didn’t have one, and embrace this role was really inspiring."

Reeve also shared how far research has come since his Father died more than a decade ago.

"The Big Idea" treatment is technological, not biological, and "when stimulated, the participants can also voluntarily control their legs and bear weight," the website adds. The fact that it’s technological, means there’s great control over it, Reeve continued.
Only four people have received this treatment, but Reeve added the goal is to raise $15 million for 36 more patients and then beyond.

Reeve said his Father "would be absolutely thrilled" with all the progress that’s been made and that today’s treatment is the *****alent of a 1991 cell phone. But the goal is to soon get to the "smartphone" version. To further explain, this device has 16 electrodes that interface with the spinal cord, Reeve said it needs to be thousands or potentially millions.

"It’s the beginning of the end, we know the road ahead, we know where we want to get. It’s just a question of getting there," he added. "When my dad was alive it really was if there will be an effective way of treating spinal cord injuries, that question’s been answered … the ultimate goal is to have a world with empty wheelchairs."

Christopher Reeve’s Son Matthew Remembers His Iconic Father 10 Years After Death – ABC News

Here all his children (from last year) – Will Reeve on the right (his mother was Dana Reeve who died 17 months After Chris)

Frances Bean Cobain talks for the first time about her father to Rolling Stone

I can’t get this to copy and paste, but the link goes to Rolling Stone’s website. I thought this was an interesting Q & A with her. I remember the time around Kurt’s death so clearly, and it’s crazy to me that he’s been gone 21 years and Frances is already 22.

Frances Bean Cobain on Life After Kurt’s Death: An Exclusive Q&A | Rolling Stone

Once ‘Father’ and ‘Son,’ Now a Married Couple

These damned allergies – so many tissues!

Once ‘Father’ and ‘Son,’ Now a Married Couple
https://www.yahoo.com/parenting/once…039861077

A Couple who were legally father and son for the last fifteen years had their adoption vacated and were Married this week after 52 years together.

Norman MacArthur, 74, and Bill Novak, 76, were Married in Pennsylvania on Sunday. The couple, who has been together since their 20s, registered as domestic partners in New York City in 1994, but in 2000 they moved to Erwinna, Penn., where domestic partnerships are not legally recognized. “When we moved to Pennsylvania, we had both retired and we were of the age where one begins to do estate planning,” MacArthur tells Yahoo Parenting. “We went to a lawyer who told us Pennsylvania was never going to allow same-sex marriage, so the only legal avenue we had in order to be afforded any rights was adoption.”

MacArthur says he thought the suggestion was strange at first. “It struck me as fairly unusual, but we looked into it and discovered that other couples had done it. [Without the adoption] we would be legally strangers.” An adoption would grant the Couple certain legal rights they felt compelled to secure. “Most importantly, it would allow us visitation rights in a hospital, and gaining of knowledge if one of us was in the hospital,” he says. “With new HIPAA privacy laws, hospitals are very constrained in what they can say to other people. If we were legally related, I would be allowed into the ER and entitled to know what Bill’s condition was if anything should happen.”

So in 2000, the two went through with a legal adoption. Since both men’s parents were dead, the adoption proceeding was fairly easy. “It wasn’t as though I was replacing one parent with another,” MacArthur says. “I was the son and Bill was the father. Bill is two years older than I am, so that was the only reason.”

Hayley Gorenberg, deputy legal director at Lambda Legal, says that while adoptions like these aren’t common, they aren’t unheard of, either. “It reflects people’s deep need to protect each other as family, and the attempt to use law that obviously isn’t a perfect fit to their situation to protect each other,” she tells Yahoo Parenting. “While we’ve had a patchwork nation and people have been desperate to take care of each other in some basic way legally, people have sometimes gotten creative to do what they need to do to protect each other as a family. It’s entirely understandable.”

But when Pennsylvania’s marriage laws, which prohibited same-sex marriage, were declared unconstitutional last year, MacArthur and Novak wanted to marry. “As marriage equality, which we’ve fought so hard for, is becoming more available, it makes sense that people would pursue the legal option that more closely explains who they are to each other,” Gorenberg says. “Marriage is the better fit, and if it was available without discrimination, it is what they would have chosen originally.”

The couple’s original lawyer told them that no court would dissolve an adoption unless another person adopted MacArthur. “I said, ‘that makes no sense to me,’ so we began to look around for other options,” he says. Terry Clemons, a lawyer MacArthur knew through volunteer work on the township’s land preservation movement, suggested that the courts might look favorably on a petition to vacate an adoption if it was made clear that the only reason for the original adoption was to give a legal underpinning to the relationship.

The Couple went to court on May 14 in hopes the judge would sign the petition to vacate their adoption so they could get legally married. “When we went to court my knees were knocking, but at the end of the hearing Terry said, ‘we’re hoping you will sign the order to vacate the adoption from the bench,’ and the judge said ‘I will happily do that,’” MacArthur says. “We had 30 friends in court to show that this case was out of the ordinary — though the judge knew that — and when the judge signed the order our friends burst into applause and I burst into tears.”

The case is the first time in Pennsylvania that an adoption between a same-sex Couple has been vacated in order to allow the Couple to marry, according to a statement from Clemons.

Ten days later, the two went from father and son to Married couple. “We wanted to get the marriage done fairly quickly after the court vacated the adoption,” MacArthur says. “At that point we didn’t have any legal protection so we wanted to get it taken care of.”

The wedding was a small private ceremony conducted by an old friend of the couple’s who is an Episcopalian priest. “I feel incredibly happy. It’s the only way I can describe it – just enormously happy,” MacArthur says. “It was very much worth the wait.”