It was none other than Bobby Womack! Yes, the same Bobby Womack with the very complicated romantic history, according to some sources. Think three marriages, reportedly marrying the widow of his ...

You’re probably not shocked, especially since we already told you all about Womack’s messy love life which involved three marriages, including one to Barbara Cooke, the widow of his mentor Sam ...

The label folded after Cooke was murdered in December 1964. Womack went solo, but faced resistance in the industry because he married Cooke's widow, Barbara, a few months later.

Womack and Barbara Cooke got closer and she eventually asked him to marry her, something Womack wrote about in his 2006 memoir, “Bobby Womack: My Story.” ...

After the manager at the Holiday Inn turned Cooke and his band away, Guralnick said, “He just went off. When he refused to leave, he became obstreperous to the point where his wife, Barbara ...

BOBBY WOMACK SCANDAL: It was bad enough that Bobby Womack (Sam Cooke's protege) married Cooke's widow (Barbara) three months after his death 'But' what Womack reveals in his new autobiography, ...

In 1970 a move to United Artists signalled a higher profile. Many of his compositions and recordings immediately after Cooke’s death and its nuptial consequences were clearly inspired by Womack’s ...

Barbara would tell one of Cooke’s biographers, Peter Guralnick, that the baby’s death and the way her husband died made her vulnerable to the advances of the 19-year-old Womack, allowing them ...

At 3am Boyer called police from a telephone box on the street; and at 6am, Cooke’s wife Barbara was called to tell her that her husband was dead. At the perfunctory two-hour inquest on December 16, ...

Sam Cooke isn't the only soul royalty that the 35-year-old is related to. Her grandparents are Cecil and Linda Womack of Womack and Womack. She also is Bobby Womack's niece.

They are also the granddaughters of both Sam Cooke, and his — and Bobby Womack’s — ex-wife, Barbara Cooke. And their Mother’s ex-boyfriend is their uncle, Bobby Womack,” ILOSM writes.