Muhammad Ali ’s multi-million dollar will has been finalised¬ at last – with the settlement set to spark “World War Three” among his family.
The boxing legend’s widow Lonnie is allegedly getting double what his children¬ will receive, which is likely to inflame an already poisonous atmosphere.
“Once the money is there, expect the biggest war yet,” said an insider.
The siblings, said to hate each other, have maintained¬ a fragile truce not to risk their slices of Ali’s $80million (£65million) estate. Ali died in June, aged 74, and the money is yet to handed out.
An attorney for the Muhammad Ali Trust, which governs the distribution of his estate, said: “It was crafted to reflect his specific wishes and to protect his legacy.”
But now the family have been told what they will get, that legacy could include a bitter family fallout. His nine children¬ are each set to pocket around $6million. Ali’s only sibling, brother Rahman, whose feud with the boxer’s widow was well documented¬, gets no money.
His seven daughters and two sons, including biological son Muhammad Ali Jr and adopted son Asaad – are expected to let their true feelings be known after being told the legal process is over.
Bitterness lingers over how their father was buried and the fact Will Smith, Lennox Lewis and Mike
Tyson were pallbearers, not his sons.
The insider added: “They all play nice-nicey now, but simmering tension goes back decades. None of the kids trust Lonnie, all are from different mothers and hate each other.
