Brazilian defender Dani Alves was not the first sports star to go to prison, and of course he will not be the last. Many stars and even sports legends preceded him, and it is strange that a large percentage of them were boxers, and the strangest thing was that some of them were imprisoned for convicting them of killing their wives or partners.
Alves entered prison at the beginning of last week in Barcelona, Spain, after being accused of assaulting a nightclub girl, and his conviction was helped by the confusion and contradiction of his confessions and the presence of a proof witness against him.
Below is a list of 15 sports stars and legends who have been imprisoned for various crimes.
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or. g. Simpson
The former American football star preoccupied the American and international public opinion with accusations in several cases, most notably his conviction in 1994 of killing his ex-wife Nicole Brown Simpson and her boyfriend Ron Goldman in Los Angeles, before he was acquitted in October of the following year in a controversial manner of the charge that was sufficient to imprison him. forever.
It is strange that exactly 13 years later, specifically in 2008, he got involved in other cases, to spend 9 years in prison after being convicted of 12 charges, including kidnapping and armed robbery.
Today, June 17th, is the 27th anniversary of the infamous OJ Simpson hunt, a manhunt watched live by millions that ended with his capture.
He was accused of killing his wife and her boyfriend, but was declared innocent after a historic trial
pic.twitter.com/ZNgliAijeq– Saeed Saeed (@saeedioi) June 17, 2021
Mark Cicillon
Former French rugby captain Marc Cecillon was sentenced to 14 years in prison after he shot his wife, Chantal, in August 2004, in front of about 60 people while they were attending a party.
Carlos Monzon
The Argentine, crowned world champion for 7 consecutive years in middleweight boxing, was sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing his second wife, Alicia, during a tourist trip in 1988, by strangling her and then pushing her from the balcony of the second floor to die immediately.
Monzon died 14 months before the end of his sentence in a traffic accident while being transported by prison bus.
Edwin Inca Valero
Former Venezuelan boxer Edwin Enca Valero committed suicide in prison, days after he was arrested for killing his wife in 2010.
Valero admitted to stabbing his wife, Jennifer Carolina Vera, in a hotel in the Spanish city of Valencia, and 4 days after entering prison, he hanged himself with his clothes in the cell.
Oscar Pistorius
The South African Paralympic legend “amputee” was involved in the murder of his partner at his home in October 2014, and his attempts to pretend that he shot succeeded when he felt a strange movement in the house that he thought was a thief, to be sentenced to 6 years in prison.
But the victim’s lawyer proved to the South African Supreme Court that the killing was premeditated, which made the court extend the sentence to 13 years and 5 months in prison.
The South African judiciary rejects the appeal request against the sentence issued against the Paralympic runner Oscar Pistorius pic.twitter.com/gsixI1rePw
– Al-Kass channels (@alkasschannel) August 26, 2016
Andrew Hall
On September 10, 2010, the High Court in “Birdfordshire” sentenced Hall to life imprisonment for the young player of the Stoke City team, according to the “Daily Mail” newspaper (dailymail) British.
This ruling came after Hall was convicted of killing his partner, Megan, after he stabbed her 60 times in different parts of her body, in a heinous crime that shook Britain.
The player killed his girlfriend out of jealousy, so he pulled a knife from the victim’s kitchen before killing her, taking advantage of her parents’ absence at home.
Stoke City teenager Andrew Hall was arrested after a 15-year-old girl was found dead at a house party in Bedfordshire. pic.twitter.com/QHeVnaNu
— Fans Forum (@Fans_Forum) June 11, 2012
Rene Higuita
The Colombian goalkeeper – the owner of the famous shot in the history of football by blocking a ball in the scorpion way – was involved in a kidnapping case in his country.
That famous incident occurred between the Colombian drug gangs, and then Higuita put himself to mediate between two major mafia leaders, Pablo Escobar and Carlos Molina.
Chronicle of the arrest and subsequent imprisonment of the goalkeeper of the Colombian soccer team, René Higuita, a few days before the start of the Copa América Ecuador 1993. pic.twitter.com/RnXrbam50f
— THOMAS ST’OMER (@THOMASSTOMER) February 9, 2019
Higuita gave his hands money for the release of Molina’s daughter, but he was later arrested because of this mediation, which he benefited financially from, and was imprisoned for 7 years.
Bernard Hopkins
American boxing legend Bernard Hopkins was sentenced to 18 years in prison for committing various crimes, including attempted murder at the age of 17, but the ordeal of imprisonment turned into a grant that changed his life forever as he converted to Islam inside prison and went out to become a middleweight world champion for 10 consecutive years (1995 to 2005), and was crowned with the four belts of the main federations in this boxing category.
Mike Tyson
The American boxing legend was sentenced in 1998 to 6 years in prison for rape, the circumstances of which were questioned, and Tyson declared his conversion to Islam inside prison and changed his name to Malik, so that his life changed completely when he was released after serving half of his sentence.
The Swedish boxer (Badu Jack), who won several world championships in boxing, posted this clip on his account today, accompanied by the American boxing legend (Mike Tyson), as they pray together, and a boxer named Omar Abdullah leads them.
He wrote: I pray alongside my brother Mike Tyson and my brother Omar Abdullah.pic.twitter.com/R5xbJaC4PY
– Iyad Al-Hamoud (@Eyaaaad) August 23, 2020
Floyd Mayweather
Mayweather, another American boxing legend, was sentenced in 2012 to 90 days in a Las Vegas prison after being convicted of a crime of violence against his ex-partner and the mother of his son.
Ronaldinho
The former Brazilian star was arrested with his brother in Paraguay for passport fraud in 2020. After 171 days in prison, they agreed to pay a $200,000 fine in exchange for suspending the case.
Unforgettable memories, Ronaldinho 🏐 in a prison in Paraguay🇵🇾
pic.twitter.com/KSPyXzMXxw– Ghaith 🇺🇾🇺🇾 (@Konmebol) October 20, 2021
George Best
Former Irish football star George Best was sentenced to 3 months in prison in 1984 for drunk driving and assaulting a police officer.
Marion Jones
The famous American athletics star served a 6-month prison sentence in 2008 for lying to prosecutors about using steroids and engaging in check fraud.
Peter Storey
The former Arsenal legend was sentenced to 3 years in prison for counterfeiting coins and an additional 6 months for running a brothel. While in prison, another year was added for stealing two taxis from the company he worked for.
Some girls who unjustly accuse, with false statements, honest men with the aim of destroying their lives, deserve life imprisonment. Benjamin Mendy lost his club, smeared in the media and missed a World Cup because of 06 lying girls. What a world! pic.twitter.com/UUMGMIWyxw
— D. Thioune Jr. Officiel (@D_ThiouneJr) January 13, 2023
Benjamin Mindy
More than a year after his arrest, a British court acquitted Manchester City player Benjamin Mendy of committing 6 counts of rape and one of sexually assaulting 4 girls, which he was accused of committing between October 2018 and August 2021 at his home in Prestbury, near Manchester. .
The French defender will also be retried for rape and attempted rape.
But since being charged, Mindy has been held at Altcourse Prison in Liverpool and then transferred to String Way Prison, where he is under maximum security amid fears for his safety.
