Malcolm X was Bisexual and his REAL killer Escaped Justice
- Activist had affair with a white man, new book claims
- Author dies days before explosive book is published
Controversial figure: Malcolm X's sexuality has once again been called into question
He is universally known as the activist who championed the rights of black people - but a new book also claims Malcolm X was bisexual who had an affair with a white man.
The book, written by one of New York's foremost African-American scholars, says Malcolm X had a relationship with a white businessman.
The bisexual claims are sure to re-ignite the controversy first stirred in a 1991 biography that detailed Malcolm X's alleged gay experiences.
The new book, Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention by Manning Marable, also claims that one of the men who assassinated Malcolm X escaped justice and is alive and well.
Two men were wrongly convicted of his murder in 1965 - and one of the real gunmen still lives in the New York area, Mr Marable wrote.
Malcolm X was gunned down as he gave a speech in the Audubon ballroom in Manhattan by one man with a shotgun and two others with pistols.
X famously said that the struggle for African American freedom should be achieved by 'any means necessary' - rather than the peaceful protest of Martin Luther King.
He rose to prominence as spokesman for the Nation of Islam church before becoming disillusioned and splitting with its leaders.
He was immortalised in Alex Haley's book The Autobiography of Malcolm X and a 1992 film by Spike Lee.
Talmadge Hayer, Norman 3X Butler and Khalil Islam - who were all members of the Nation of Islam church - were convicted of his murder at the age of 39.
Tragedy: A crowd gathers outside the Audubon ballroom in New York after Malcolm X was gunned down on stage in 1965
Accusations: Manning Marable makes the claims in his book Malcolm X: A Life of Reinvention. But he died on Friday before it was published yesterday
But Butler and Islam have always maintained their innocence and the killing has been linked to other members of the Nation of Islam's mosque 25 in Newark.
Marable, who died on Friday just days before his work was published yesterday, claimed that one of the killers was in fact 72-year-old Al-Mustafa Shabazz.
Shabazz, who categorically denies killing the leader, is accused of being William Bradley - a Nation of Islam member who has been placed at the scene of the shooting many times.
Shabazz is a pensioner who lives in Newark and attended the Mosque 25 in the late 90s after he was released from jail for other offences.
He is now married to prominent New York civil rights leader Carolyn Kelly Shabazz.
When questioned by the New Jersey Star Ledger, Mrs Shabazz did not deny her husband was Bradley.
Before his death Marable told the newspaper that Bradley 'has turned his life around over the last 20 years'.
'He has a positive and constructive reputation within the Muslim community. And his life has been turned around through marriage and local activities.'
Mr Marble dedicated his life to his new book, which aims to provide as much detail as possible of what happened on the day of X's assassination.
The New York City Police Department and FBI are accused in the book of having advance knowledge of the assassination and bungling the investigation.
But a spokesman for the NYPD told the New York Times: 'As much as conspiracy theorists may press to reach a sweeping, unsupported and untrue conclusion, the fact is the NYPD was not complicit in Malcolm X’s assassination, and it’s gratuitously false to suggest as much.'
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