A night out in Mayfair at restaurant Nobu turned to scandal for Boris after he reportedly spent a little too much time with Russian model Angela Ermakowa.

Nine months later his daughter Anna was born. At first, Boris denied he was the father, but later accepted paternity, agreeing to pay Ermahowa at least £2 million ($3m) in child maintenance as reported in British newsaper The Guardian. The resemblance is striking in this image from his Instagram.

Becker later revealed that it was after the Rafter defeat and a row with his then-pregnant wife Barbara that he went out with friends and ended up on the stairwell, not in a broom cupboard as had previously been reported by papers across the world, including The Irish Examiner.

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