As if the image of controversial fight promoter Don King having an audience with Pope Benedict XVI isn’t strange enough, things almost got completely out of hand when the New York Post ran a short report about King’s upcoming meeting with the Pope:

When Ana Carril-Grumberg read on [New York Post column] Page Six yesterday that boxing promoter Don King is scheduled to meet Pope Benedict XVI next week, she called us to say that King’s son, Eric, owes her $5,250 in child support for their daughter Nathalie, 16. “I want the pope to intervene,” Carril-Grumberg said. From Paris, King responded, “I didn’t sleep with her. My son may be a naughty boy, but he’s a grown man.” King characterized Carril-Grumberg as a gold-digger: “She thought she was striking gold, oil actually, because it’s black,” laughed King. But getting serious, he said, “I’ll ask my son when I get back. If he’s got obligations, I’ll tell him to take care of them.”