Someone wrote an article and counted up the days from age 18 to when he made the claim and it seemed implausibly high.
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Although shy and insecure as a teenager, as an adult Chamberlain became well known for his womanizing. As his lawyer Seymour "Sy" Goldberg put it: "Some people collect stamps, Wilt collected women."[url=http://localhost:52633/0F9645DC-9BCB-4A94-8FAC-FB468907538A/fileProxy/14807476948132018830-index.html#cite_note-cherry343_356-157][155][/url]Swedish Olympic high jumper
Annette Tnnander, who met him when he was 40 and she 19, remembers him as a
pick-up artist who was extremely confident yet respectful: "I think Wilt hit on everything that moved...[but] he never was bad or rude."[url=http://localhost:52633/0F9645DC-9BCB-4A94-8FAC-FB468907538A/fileProxy/14807476948132018830-index.html#cite_note-cherry343_356-157][155][/url]Many of Chamberlain's personal friends testified that he once had 23 women in 10 days, had no problems organizing a
threesome (or more), and particularly enjoyed a TV skit on the television show
In Living Color in which a mother and her daughter approach a
Vietnam Wall-like list of women who slept with him, both of them pointing out that their names are on it, as well as a 1991
Saturday Night Live sketch where
MC Hammer played Chamberlain in "Remembrances of Love", where Chamberlain spoofs a
soap operawith romances with women that are usually over in five minutes.[url=http://localhost:52633/0F9645DC-9BCB-4A94-8FAC-FB468907538A/fileProxy/14807476948132018830-index.html#cite_note-cherry343_356-157][155][/url]However,
Los Angeles Times columnist David Shaw claimed that during a dinner with Shaw and his wife, Chamberlain was "rude and sexist toward his own date, as he usually was", adding that at one point Chamberlain left the table to get the phone number of an attractive woman at a nearby table.
According to Rod Roddewig, a contemporary of Wilt's, Chamberlain documented his love life using a Day-Timer. Every time Chamberlain went to bed with a different woman, he put a check in his Day-Timer. Over a 10-day period, there were 23 checks in the book, which would be a rate of 2.3 women per day. Chamberlain divided that number in half, to be conservative and to correct for degrees of variation. He then multiplied that number by the number of days he had been alive at the time minus 15 years.
That was how the 20,000 number came into existence. ]In response to public backlash regarding his promiscuity, Chamberlain later emphasized that "the point of using the number was to show that sex was a great part of my life as basketball was a great part of my life. That's the reason why I was single."In a 1999 interview shortly before his death, he regretted not having explained the sexual climate at the time of his escapades, and warned other men who admired him for it, closing with the words: "With all of you men out there who think that having a thousand different ladies is pretty cool, I have learned in my life I've found out that having one woman a thousand different times is much more satisfying."Chamberlain also acknowledged that he never came close to marrying and had no intention of raising any children.However, in 2015 a man named Aaron Levi came forward claiming to be Chamberlain's son based on non-identifying papers from his adoption and information from his biological mother. Chamberlain's sister refused to provide DNA evidence for testing, so Levi's claim is not conclusive.
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