Former heavyweight boxing champ Evander Holyfield is $372,097 behind in child support payments, and the state Department of Human Services is taking him to court to force him to catch up, according to a TMZ report.
The report says Holyfield, 49, hasn’t paid support for his daughter Emani, 18, since April 2010. The TMZ report says the state is asking that a judge have Holyfield jailed and his wages garnished until the support payments are satisfied.
A Holyfield spokeswoman told the entertainment site that the former boxer “has a wonderful relationship with his daughter” but she didn’t comment on the child support allegation.
Emani is one of Holyfield's 12 children by six women. Her mother is Ia Brown. A California state appeals panel in 2000, when Emani was 7 years old and living in Los Angeles with her mother, ruled at the time that Holyfield must pay $19,270 a month in support for the child, which had been ordered by a state Superior Court judge.
The boxing champ, who has faced financial difficulties including foreclosure on his Fayette County mansion in recent years, has been sued for thousands of dollars in lapsed child support payments. According to an Atlanta Magazine article last year, Holyfield owes "cumulative child support payments in the $500,000 range."
Holyfield has battled child support cases in Georgia, Texas and California. He has fought to renegotiate the payments, arguing that his income has fallen off since he left the ring, although he has been attempting a comeback.
According to a bio on his website, Holyfield made more than $230 million in the boxing ring.
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