Sports Industrialists

FORMER ALI PARTNERS TRY TO STOP MAKING OF ALI FILM

3.17.1999

          MUHAMMAD ALI's longtime manager and another associate
     have filed a $50M federal lawsuit "in an effort to stop
     Columbia Pictures from making a movie about the legendary
     boxer," according to Rex Bowman of the RICHMOND TIMES-
     DISPATCH.  The suit, filed in Roanoke, VA, "alleges" that
     Ali "sold the rights to his life story without the
     permission of his two partners" in Muhammad Ali Productions
     Inc. of Afton.  Former Ali manager JABIR HERBERT MUHAMMAD
     and JASON MARCUS HIRSCHFIELD, the son of Ali's former
     attorney, want a judge to stop Columbia from proceeding with
     the film, which is to feature WILL SMITH in the lead role. 
     In a statement, Columbia "rejected the lawsuit's claims" and
     quotes Ali's wife, Lonnie, as calling the legal action a
     "calculated attack on Muhammad personally" (RTD, 3/17).

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