Whatever Happened To Don King?

Life hasn't been great to the King family. His daughter Debbie was evicted from her home in Florida after her crack cocaine habit got out of hand in 2000 and King had to take in her two children. Debbie continued to struggle with abuse, and in 2006, she managed to get a DUI and be

Life hasn't been great to the King family. His daughter Debbie was evicted from her home in Florida after her crack cocaine habit got out of hand in 2000 and King had to take in her two children. Debbie continued to struggle with abuse, and in 2006, she managed to get a DUI and be arrested for drug possession all in one week. Since then, Debbie was able to get clean and is now a drug abuse counselor. She founded Limitless Life Recovery and hopes to one day open up her own treatment center.

Her brother's story has a less happy ending. After marrying Muhammad Ali's sister-in-law, Eric King was arrested and jailed in 2000 for failing to pay child support for his daughter from former girlfriend Ana Carril. The marriage only lasted a month, but Eric's deadbeat dad troubles went on for a lot longer. Daughter Nathalie's paternity was in dispute, because Eric insisted that in the two years of traveling together and sleeping in the same bed, as he stated to the New York Post, they "didn't have the kind of sex that would produce a child." Hmm. Maybe Don King failed to give Eric the birds and the bees talk. Anyway, paternity was established, and Eric was the father.

After being jailed for his lack of payments, Eric paid his daughter $100,000 and was ordered to continue to pay $344 a month in child support. He paid for a little while, but funds quickly dried up for Nathalie. In 2005, Eric promised the court that he would keep up to date on his payments, but that promise only lasted five months. So, in 2008, Eric received a court order telling him to pay $10,000 in back child support or go to jail. Does Nathalie have any sympathy for her father? No. She told the NY Daily News, "He's nothing to me. He's like dirt."

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