Boxer Floyd Mayweather’s ex and mother of his three children, Josie Harris, has been found dead in her car by police in the United States.
According to TMZ, police are not treating the death as suspicious. The 40-year-old was found in Valencia, California on Monday night.
She was pronounced dead at the scene.
The couple shared three kids together.
Mayweather and Harris dated from 1995 to 2010 and share three children together.
Mayweather and Harris had a fiery relationship. The undefeated boxer was convicted of domestic violence in relation to an incident involving Harris in 2010 and would serve two months behind bars in county jail and was also ordered to complete 100 hours of community service, attend a 12-month domestic violence program and pay a fine of $2,500.
Harris claims she was abused on several occasions but the conviction stems from a September 2010 incident in which she said Mayweather attacked her in front of her children.
Mayweather denied the allegations later in an interview with Katie Couric, in which he said:
“Did I restrain a woman that was on drugs? Yes, I did. So if they say that’s domestic violence, then, you know what? I’m guilty. I’m guilty of restraining someone.”
Harris would launch a lawsuit against Mayweather for those comments, demanding $20 million in damages for defamation. The case remains on-going.
It is understood that Harris and Mayweather didn’t have much communication in recent years, except for situations in which Mayweather would arrive to collect their children.
“For some reason I still get anxiety when I know that he is on his way. I have no idea why, but I get really overwhelmed when I know that I have to be around him,” Harris said in 2014.
“I was a battered woman,” she said. “I felt embarrassed about saying I was a battered woman. I felt shame. I felt like it was my fault. What did I do?
