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Miami: A son of reggae legend Bob Marley, Ky-Mani Marley, has written a new book claiming he was deprived of his father’s fortune for years unlike his half-bothers and half-sisters, sparking a row that could trigger legal action.
Ky-Mani Marley’s Dear Dad hit booksellers’ stands on February 6, when the late reggae icon would have turned 65. It has quickly become a major headache for this 34-year-old son of Marley.

The author, aware of the family squabbling it could unleash, tried to delay its release, and to tweak the content, but he failed. Now there is a dispute between Ky-Mani Marley and his editor Farrah Gray over the veracity of the content. Their clash could end up in court, both told media in the United States and Jamaica in recent days. “The book was not an attack on my family. I love my brothers and sisters more than anyone can know,” Ki-Mani Marley, a Jamaican actor and musician who is a son of Bob Marley and table tennis champ Anita Belnavis, said in a statement on his MySpace page.
The book says on its cover that it contains the “story the Marley family apparently didn’t want you to know.”
    —AFP