Martin Luther King Jr. is celebrated as a civil rights leader and humanitarian, but he wasn’t perfect. When it came to his personal life, King was a serial cheater. To find out more lesser-known facts about the civil rights leader, continue reading:
King committed adultery again and again: Ava DuVernay's Oscar-nominated biopic “Selma” depicts King as being unfaithful to his wife, Coretta Scott King. Though the reasons this information is public knowledge isn't ethical -- the FBI wanted to use it to discredit King -- he cheated on Coretta so many times that she was reportedly disillusioned with their marriage.
 
The FBI recorded one of his trysts at a Washington, D.C., hotel and sent the audiotape to his wife. His last night alive wasn’t with the woman he married -- it was with someone else. When he was assassinated at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, the young woman was asked to stay out of the ambulance so King’s reputation would not be tainted.
King had a “weakness for women,” Ralph Abernathy wrote in his 1989 autobiography. This was a known fact among his staff. They “all understood and believed in the biblical prohibition against sex outside marriage. It was just that he had a particularly difficult time with that temptation.”

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