Leon Spinks the late 1990s, Spinks was a headliner on year-round, touring autograph shows. In 2009 Spinks was featured as part of the 2009 documentary "Facing Ali", in which notable former opponents of Ali speak about how fighting Ali changed their lives. As of 2017, Spinks lives in Las Vegas, Nevada. He told a reporter his life is "comfortable", and that he keeps a low profile. In August 2017, Leon was inducted into the Nevada Boxing Hall of Fame along with his brother, Michael. Leon's son, Cory Spinks, held the undisputed welterweight title, and was the IBF junior middleweight champion twice. In
Michael Spinks and used Spinks's money to pay his and his children's own personal and business expenses. Also name as a defendant was Robert L. Johnson, founder of Black Entertainment Television, head of the real estate firm of RLJ Development LLC, in Bethesda, Maryland, and one of the executors of Lewis's $8.5 million estate. According to Spinks's lawyers, following Lewis's death Johnson and attorney Leonard Williams stopped the payments without telling him, which in turn caused Spinks' health insurance to lapse and bills totaling up to $50,000 a month to go unpaid. "Spinks had to invade his pension and retirement funds and