of a PR exercise". He said he had no involvement in any financial dealings, and "stepped away" after June 2011 when Yeung was arrested in Hong Kong and charged with money laundering offences.' In 2007–08, McManaman also got involved with corporate dealings in Hong Kong with companies like Sure Trace Inc, which was set up by another porn baron and stock market and IT entrepreneur, James MacKay, who transferred two-thirds of the company to him. The company made news for wrong reasons as Sure Trace had made several major contract announcements which had not become actual, revenue-generating contracts and was delisted by the US Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC). The company then set up True Product ID as a company to conduct technology joint ventures in China and the company was transferred to McManaman. To protect investors, the SEC suspended Sure Trace Security in August 2005, citing the accuracy of public information regarding its technology sales. Autobiography In 2004, McManaman released his autobiography, El Macca, which was shortlisted as one of the Sunday Times Books of the Year and William Hill Sports Book of the Year. Personal life McManaman's grandfather was a bookmaker and his father (in the printing and publishing business) described the family as having "horseracing in their blood". From November 2019, McManaman began writing an exclusive bi-monthly op-ed column for British Horse Racing website, Horseracing.net. McManaman married his longtime girlfriend, Victoria Edwards, a barrister and law lecturer (who taught at the Complutense University of Madrid during her time in Madrid with McManaman), on 6 June 2002, in Mallorca's Palma Cathedral. Victoria gave birth to their daughters Ella in 2006 and Lara in 2009, and son Lucas James in 2012. The family divides its time between homes in Bay of Palma, London and Cheshire. His brother-in-law is his ex-Liverpool team-mate, Jason McAteer, who married Edwards' younger sister, Lucy, in 2013. McManaman has also described being a Roman Catholic and how Real Madrid sought out the blessing of Pope John Paul II in 2002, saying: "I am a Catholic and what with all the Spanish, Portuguese and Brazilians, we are predominantly a Catholic team..." McManaman's favourite bands are the Beatles, Radiohead, Cypress Hill and Echo & the Bunnymen, while according to an interview in 2003 his favourite television shows were Cheers, Frasier, The Simpsons and The Office. In addition to his native English, McManaman speaks Spanish, which he learnt