Wives and times of Gorgeous George
FROM 1979 to 1999, Mr Galloway was married to his former teenage sweetheart, Elaine Fyffe. They had a daughter, Lucy, now 29 with two children of her own.
The couple separated in 1987 but did not divorce for a further 12 years.
The politician had already taken Dr Amineh Abu-zayyad, a Palestinian scientist, as a second wife in a Muslim ceremony in 1994. A year after his divorce from Elaine in 1999, he married Dr Abu-zayyad in a civil ceremony.
In 2009 Dr Abu-zayyad obtained an uncontested divorce citing unreasonable behaviour. In divorce papers she said the marriage had irretrievably broken down because his friendships with other women left her depressed.
By this time the Respect MP had already had a son, Zein, with his Lebanese former researcher, Rima Husseini, whom he had married in a Muslim ceremony in 2007. At one point Mr Galloway was reported to have split from his third ‘wife’. But a second son, Faris, arrived in December 2011. It is not clear if or when the couple were divorced.
Last night Miss Husseini was not prepared to discuss Mr Galloway’s latest marriage. At her home in North Kensington, West London, she said: ‘I don’t want to go into what’s happened.
‘I’m sorry. I have two young children and they are all I am concerned with right now.’