Boxing Champion Michael Spinks Sues Former Promoter’s Estate
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Ex-heavyweight boxing champion Michael Spinks sued the estate of his former promoter, Ronald E. “Butch” Lewis, alleging Lewis failed to properly manage millions of dollars Spinks earned in his career and violated agreements to continue paying the boxer’s living expenses.
Lewis, who died this year, commingled his personal funds with Spinks’s money and used the boxer’s winnings to pay personal and business expenses for himself and his children, Spinks said in a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit. The suit also names Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, as a defendant. Johnson serves as one of the executors of Lewis’s $8.5 million estate, according to court filings.