In 1998, the tabloid newspaper The Globe reported that Malone had been a defendant in paternity lawsuits, filed shortly after Malone began his professional basketball career in the late 1980s. The newspaper alleged that he was the father of three children: two by Bonita Ford, a woman approximately his age from his hometown of Summerfield, Louisiana, and one with Gloria Bell, who was 13 when she gave birth.  

This man has no right to be respected or looked up to.  Lets make a change before a villain dies a legend.  Gloria Bell was more than likely 12 years old when a then 20 year old Malone raped her