Ky-Mani Marley, son of the legendary Bob Marley, has written a controversial memoir, Dear Dad: “Where’s The Family In Our Family, Today?” The Story the Marley Family Apparently Doesn’t Want You to Know. The book is a biographical account of the life Ky-Mani was forced to live after the death of his father.

Ky-Mani was locked out of his iconic father’s shelter and forced to survive poverty in Miami’s violent ghetto. He was not allowed to see his siblings and was cut out of any financial gain by Marley’s widow and manager of the Marley Estate. According to Fortune magazine, the Bob Marley estate generates $600 million and is expected to generate in excess of $1 billion by 2012, making Bob Marley the richest deceased celebrity.

The Marley family is outraged over the publishing of the memoir; however there is no stopping the book as it is on sale now on Amazon. “Family politics can be a straight bitch. It can flow deep. And it can cut deep. You have to understand what I’m calling family politics. It was family politics that gave me all of the growing-up experiences I have detailed in this book,” said Ky-Mani Marley. The book is meant to coincide with Bob Marley’s 65^th birthday February 6, 2010.