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King was born in Cleveland, Ohio, where he attended school and graduated from John Adams Highin 1951. After dropping out of Kent State University, he ran an illegal bookmaking operation out of the basement of a record store on Kinsman Road and was charged with killing two men in incidents 13 years apart. The first was determined to be justifiable h...
King entered the boxing world after convincing Muhammad Ali to box in a charity exhibition for a local hospital in Cleveland with the help of singer Lloyd Price. Early on he formed a partnership with a local promoter named Don Elbaum, who already had a stable of fighters in Cleveland and years of experience in boxing. In 1974, King negotiated to pr...
Don King's wife, Henrietta, died on December 2, 2010, at the age of 87[citation needed]. They had one biological daughter, Debbie, a son, Eric and adopted son Carl, five grandchildren[citation needed] and three great grandchildren[citation needed]. King is politically active and supported Barack Obama in the 2008 and 2012 presidential elections. Du...
Links with organized crime
King has been investigated for possible connections with organized crime. During a 1992 Senate investigation, King invoked the Fifth Amendment when questioned about his connection to mobster John Gotti. When IBFpresident Robert W. "Bobby" Lee, Sr. was indicted for racketeering in 1999, King was not indicted, nor did he testify at Lee's trial, though prosecutors reportedly "called him an unindicted co-conspirator who was the principal beneficiary of Lee's machinations."
Muhammad Ali
King has been involved in many fraud litigation cases with boxers. In 1982, he was sued by Muhammad Ali for underpaying him $1.1 million for a fight with Larry Holmes. King called in an old friend of Ali, Jeremiah Shabazz, and handed him a suitcase containing $50,000 in cash and a letter ending Ali's lawsuit against King. He asked Shabazz to visit Ali (who was in the hospital due to his failing health) and get him to sign the letter and then give Ali the $50,000. Ali signed. The letter even g...
Larry Holmes
Larry Holmes has alleged that over the course of his career, King cheated him out of $10 million in fight purses, including claiming 25% of his purses as a hidden manager. Holmes says he received only $150,000 of a contracted $500,000 for his fight with Ken Norton, and $50,000 of $200,000 for facing Earnie Shavers, and claims King cut his purses for bouts with Muhammad Ali, Randall "Tex" Cobb, and Leon Spinks, underpaying him $2 million, $700,000, and $250,000, respectively. Holmes sued King...
King appeared in the 2-part Miami Viceepisode "Down for the Count" (season 3, episodes 12/13, 1987) as Mr. Cash. King acted in a small role as more or less himself in The Last Fight (1982) and in the comedy Head Office (1985). He also had another brief cameo as himself in the film The Devil's Advocate (1997). He also appeared in a season 4 episode ...
As a character
1. A puppet caricature of King appeared in a few episodes of the TV series DC Follieswhich ran from 1987 to 1989. 2. In 1995, HBO aired Tyson, a television movie based upon the life of Mike Tyson, in which King was portrayed by actor Paul Winfield. 3. In 1997, Ving Rhames played King in a television movie, Don King: Only in America, which aired on HBO. Rhames won a Golden Globe Awardfor his portrayal of King. 4. In 1998, for the tenth episode of South Park's first season, "Damien", Jesus and...
Characters based on King
1. The character of George Washington Duke, the flamboyant boxing promoter in the film Rocky V (1990), is modeled at least in part on Don King,even using King's famous catchphrase "Only in America!" 2. "The Homer They Fall", a 1996 episode in season 8 of the animated series The Simpsons, features a boxing promoter, Lucius Sweet (voiced by Paul Winfield), whose appearance is modeled on King, especially his hairstyle. In fact, Homer Simpsoncomments that Sweet is "exactly as rich and as famous a...
1997: International Boxing Hall of Fameinductee2008: Gaming Hall of Fameinductee2015: Street in Newark, New Jerseyrenamed Don King Way2016: Shaker Boulevard in Cleveland renamed Don King WayDon King: Only in America at IMDbIn October 2022, he was widely condemned and lost many sponsors and partnerships—including his collaborations with Adidas, Gap, and Balenciaga —after making a series of antisemitic statements, including praising Adolf Hitler and denying the Holocaust .
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