John Fashanu Babangida of stealing money from Nigeria, apologised saying "I can say it again and again, that there was nothing like debt buy-back or any billions stacked away in any account anywhere." Minton said that Fashanu was given false information by the Church of Scientology to attack him. Wimbledon Fashanu, who was the younger brother of Justin Fashanu, disowned his brother after the latter came out as gay, telling "The Voice" that Justin was "an outcast". After Justin took his own life in 1998, Fashanu expressed remorse for abandoning his brother. Fashanu has two sons, Amir and Akio, and two daughters,
Catherine Cookson her youth wanted to write about 'above stairs' in grand houses, she later and successfully concentrated on people ground down by circumstances, taking care to know them well. Cookson wrote almost 100 books, which sold more than 123 million copies, her novels being translated into at least 20 languages. She also wrote books under the pseudonyms Catherine Marchant and a name derived from her childhood name, Katie McMullen. She remained the most borrowed author from public libraries in the UK for 17 years, up until four years after her death, losing the top spot to Jacqueline Wilson only in 2002.