Veronica Porsche Ali
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Veronica Porsche Ali (now Veronica Porsche Anderson) is best known for being the third wife of American boxer Muhammad Ali. She later married singer Carl Anderson, who passed away in 2004. Veronica grew up in the Echo Park district of Los Angeles, and graduated from Belmont High School in 1971, where she was crowned the Homecoming Queen that year. Her brother, Anthony Porche, was a star football and track & field athlete at Belmont High School.
Ali and Porsche began a relationship while he was still married to his second wife, Khalilah 'Belinda' Ali. Porsche was one of the four poster girls who had promoted the Rumble in the Jungle fight in Zaire versus George Foreman. Porsche and Ali were married in the summer of 1977. At the time they were married, they had one daughter, Hana, who was about 10 months, and Porsche was about three months pregnant with Ali's second child. They had two children, and then divorced in July 1986. Oldest daughter Hana Ali is an author who today lives near her father in Michigan. Youngest daughter Laila Ali is a professional boxer like her father, and is the most famous of his nine children.
Prior to meeting Ali, she spelled her last name Porche. As her fame grew, and she began to have contact with reporters and other media, she began to tell them that her name was spelled "like the sports car". This, of course, led to people spelling her name – Porsche – like the sports car. Her name appears on documents using both spellings. Reportedly, she favors the style and sophistication of the Porsche spelling; and for that particular reason, she sometimes uses the spelling – Verónica – for her first name.
She has had some limited experience as an actress. She played a tour guide, Ranger Emily, in the 1986 film Terror on Alcatraz. She appeared as herself in a made-for-TV documentary, Intimate Portrait: Laila Ali (2001)(TV)
In the movie, ALI starring Will Smith, the role of Veronica Porsche Ali was played by Michael Michele.
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