Three-time world heavyweight boxing champion Muhammad Ali preached nonviolence outside the ring while wielding fists of fury inside it. Subscribe now for an inside look at his remarkable life, plus rare family photos, only in People.Known for his fortitude in the boxing ring - and later, his inner strength, as Parkinson's Disease ravaged his body - Muhammad Ali had "one weakness" that ended his early marriages. "It was too much temptation for him, with women who threw themselves at him," his third wife, Veronica Porsche, 60, tells People. "It didn't mean anything. He didn't have affairs - he had one-night stands.
- 6/9/2016
- by Kurt Pitzer, @pitzerkurt
- PEOPLE.com
This story originally ran in the January 13, 1997 issue of PEOPLEMuhammad Ali is up to his old tricks, and he's reeling you into his act. You're at his 81-acre place in Berrien Springs, Mich., chatting in the kitchen with his buddy, Howard Bingham, when Ali, a noted prestidigitator, drifts into the room. "Look me in the eyes," he rasps, making them as big as saucers. "People say I got powers." Suddenly you hear a whirring noise by your ear. "Hear anything?" he asks. "Yeah, sounds like a cricket," you say, though you suspect it's Bingham, who's behind you rattling a newspaper.
- 6/6/2016
- by William Plummer
- PEOPLE.com
As Muhammad Ali's children and grandchildren gathered around his deathbed, they found comfort in being together, just as the champ had wished. "Out of our sorrow came a beautiful thought, that we were solidified," Ali's daughter, Hana Ali, recalls. "From the time we were little, dad always brought us together with our stepmother. He'd sit us down and say, 'You have different mothers, but you are sisters. and I want you all to come together and love each other.' " The boxing legend died on Friday at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where he had spent the past few...
- 6/6/2016
- by Kurt Pitzer and Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
As Muhammad Ali's children and grandchildren gathered around his deathbed, they found comfort in being together, just as the champ had wished. "Out of our sorrow came a beautiful thought, that we were solidified," Ali's daughter, Hana Ali, recalls. "From the time we were little, dad always brought us together with our stepmother. He'd sit us down and say, 'You have different mothers, but you are sisters. and I want you all to come together and love each other.' " The boxing legend died on Friday at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, where he had spent the past few...
- 6/6/2016
- by Kurt Pitzer and Char Adams
- PEOPLE.com
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