MLK's last affair before death?

First of all, I want you to read this article. Scroll down a bit until you find the “King was a serial adulterer” subtitle. And this article. (Yes, People Magazine, that gossip magazine) (Yes, it existed in 1989.)

Remember when we talked in class about how nobody talked about MLK’s private life? Nothing about extramarital relationships? Well, someone did, and he did not get a good response from the audience.

Ralph D. Abernathy and Martin Luther King Jr. were both leaders of the Civil Rights Movement, they even went to jail together. So, why would he talk about King’s unfaithfulness on his memoirs book?

Rumor has it Abernathy was mad and jealous because he did not get the recognition, respect or publicity King did. So in his memoirs, a couple of pages caught everyone’s eyes. He wrote about King’s last night alive, and how he spent it with two women in a hotel room (If you know what I mean) and a third woman whom he "knocked across the bed... and for a moment they were in a full-blown fight, with Martin clearly winning." Funny how the first article does not mention this last part? Or funny how a gossip magazine does?

My point here is not that King was an adulterer, that he cheated on his wife in multiple times, or that his right-hand was jealous and wanted some kind of “revenge”. My point is how the story is told in this two sources. We know magazines like People are looking for that little bad thing someone did to expose them and create a big scandal and have the exclusive. But it seems to me that International Business Times is not that type of magazine or website. They don’t mention the violent event that may or may not have happened. I even came across the thought that they may be protecting King’s public image, or his legacy.

What do you think about this event? Or about how both websites cover it? Why would he bring this up after King's death? Let me know!