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Article: ALI FIGHTS FOR LIFE STORY MUHAMMAD ALI IS SUING FORMER BEACH LAWYER RICHARD HIRSCHFELD, CLAIMING HE WAS DUPED INTO SIGNING OVER CREATIVE CONTROL OF HIS LIFE STORY.(FRONT)

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August 19, 1999
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Byline: MARC DAVIS, STAFF WRITER

NORFOLK -- Muhammad Ali is fighting for his life - the movie version of his life - against longtime friend and fugitive financier Richard Hirschfeld.

Hirschfeld, a former Virginia Beach lawyer convicted of fraud in 1991 and now on the lam from other federal charges, claims he and an associate hold creative control over Ali's life story.

But Ali says that Hirschfeld and the associate duped him into signing away his rights in 1988, taking advantage of the former boxing champ's weak condition while he was being treated for Parkinson's disease.

Friday, Ali sued Hirschfeld and the associate in Norfolk's ...

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