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  • He sang the role clearly and effortlessly, but Golaud is a lost soul, driven to distraction and despair by Mélisande's evasions: Opie's one-note characterisation suggested he was merely a psychotic wife-basher.

    Telegraph.co.uk: news, business, sport, the Daily Telegraph newspaper, Sunday Telegraph 2010

  • Evander Holyfield branded a wife-basher FOUR-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield has been accused of bashing his wife.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Evander Holyfield branded a wife-basher FOUR-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield has been accused of bashing his wife.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Evander Holyfield branded a wife-basher FOUR-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield has been accused of bashing his wife.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Evander Holyfield branded a wife-basher FOUR-time world heavyweight champion Evander Holyfield has been accused of bashing his wife.

    AustralianIT.com.au | Top Stories 2010

  • Bitter-Sweet: My Life With Obasanjo, which enthusiastically described a man who was a violent wife-basher and womaniser, arrived on the shelves just as Olusegan Obasanjo had surrendered power peacefully before a third term and was trying to establish himself as the predominant peacemonger on the continent.

    IOL: News 2009

  • The author paints a portrait of her husband as a vindictive "master of decoy", a "violent and unrepentant wife-basher", and a man whose "womanising knows no bounds".

    IOL: News 2009

  • The author paints a portrait of her husband as a vindictive "master of decoy", a "violent and unrepentant wife-basher", and a man whose "womanising knows no bounds".

    IOL: News 2009

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