Levestia Huffman is the first wife of WWE Hall of Famer Booker T. They married in 1996 and divorced in 2001. She made one television appearance on WCW Monday Nitro in July 2000 and has maintained complete privacy since the divorce, with no confirmed public presence as of 2026.
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Her name draws searches for three reasons — and two of the most common answers circulating online are wrong. She is not the mother of actors Aldis and Edwin Hodge, and she has no connection to WWE wrestler Maven Huffman, who shares the Huffman surname but is an entirely different person. The surname confusion has produced dozens of inaccurate biographical pages that remain uncorrected across the web.
This article separates verified facts from widespread errors. Every claim is either supported by a public source or explicitly flagged as unconfirmed.
Quick Reference
| Attribute | Details |
|---|---|
| Full Name | Levestia Huffman |
| Date of Birth | Not publicly confirmed |
| Nationality | American |
| Known For | First wife of Booker T (WWE Hall of Famer) |
| Marriage to Booker T | May 23, 1996 – May 8, 2001 (Harris County, Texas) |
| Children with Booker T | None |
| Booker T’s other children | At least one son, Brandon, from a prior relationship; two children (Kendrick and Kennedy) with current wife Sharmell |
| Television appearance | WCW Monday Nitro, July 2000 |
| Current public presence | None confirmed as of 2026 |
The Huffman Surname Confusion
Before anything else, three persistent errors need to be corrected. All stem from the same root cause: Booker T’s legal surname is Huffman (Booker Tio Huffman Jr.), and early internet biographies connected it to unrelated people who share the name.
Levestia Is Not the Mother of Aldis and Edwin Hodge
This is the most searched question attached to Levestia Huffman’s name — and the answer circulating online is wrong.
The Hodge brothers’ parents are Aldis Basil Hodge and Yolette Evangeline Richardson, both U.S. Marines. Their mother Yolette is from Florida, while their father Aldis is originally from Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands. Both brothers — Edwin (born January 26, 1985) and Aldis (born September 20, 1986) — were born in Jacksonville, North Carolina.
Edwin Hodge himself has written publicly about his family, describing his mother as the driving force behind the family’s survival through homelessness and hardship. The Hodge brothers also have a younger sister, Briana. None of this family history has any connection to Booker T or Levestia Huffman.
The error appears to have originated on small biography sites that confused the Huffman surname with the Hodge family — possibly because the brothers’ father shares the first name “Aldis.” That error was then copied across dozens of republishing sites without verification. Because Levestia has never spoken publicly, no correction from her own voice exists to counter it.
Levestia and Booker T had no children together during their five-year marriage.
Levestia Is Not Related to Maven Huffman
Maven Huffman (born November 26, 1976, in Nashville, Tennessee) is a separate WWE alumnus entirely. He was raised in Crimora, Virginia, attended Eastern Mennonite University, and worked as a middle school teacher at Twality Middle School in Tigard, Oregon, before entering professional wrestling. He won the inaugural season of WWE Tough Enough in 2001 and held the WWF Hardcore Championship.
Maven shares the Huffman surname with Booker T but has no familial connection to Booker T, Levestia, or the Hodge family. His personal background is also entirely separate — he was adopted by his maternal uncle and aunt after his mother died when he was two years old.
Why These Errors Spread
The pattern is consistent: a real surname appears in multiple wrestler biographies, small content sites conflate the individuals, and copy-paste republishing amplifies the error across the web. Without a primary source correction — which neither Levestia nor the Hodge family has provided — the misinformation persists indefinitely.
What Is Publicly Known About Her Background
No verified information about Levestia Huffman’s early life, birthplace, family, or professional career has ever appeared in a public source. She has never given an interview, and no biographical records from before her marriage to Booker T have surfaced.
What we know about her begins and ends with a five-year window: her marriage to Booker T from 1996 to 2001, and a single television appearance during that time. Beyond that, the public record is blank.
This is not a research gap that can be filled with inference. She made a deliberate choice to stay out of public view, and she made that choice before the social media era made privacy genuinely difficult to maintain.
Marriage to Booker T: 1996–2001
Levestia and Booker T married on May 23, 1996, according to Harris County public records. At that point in his career, Booker T was competing primarily in tag team matches in World Championship Wrestling (WCW) alongside his brother Stevie Ray as part of Harlem Heat — one of the most prominent tag teams in the company at the time, with ten WCW World Tag Team Championship reigns between them.
Over the five years of their marriage, Booker T transitioned from a tag team performer into a credible singles competitor. He won the WCW World Television Championship six times (a record) and became the first African American to hold that title. His singles arc culminated on July 9, 2000, when he won the WCW World Heavyweight Championship at Bash at the Beach 2000 — the top title in the company. Levestia was married to him at that moment.
It is worth noting that Booker T was already a father before this marriage. He became a parent at age 17 when his son Brandon was born in 1982. Booker T was raising Brandon as a single father while working at a storage company in Houston when his brother Lash suggested they try professional wrestling. Levestia was not Brandon’s mother.
Their divorce was finalized on May 8, 2001, with papers filed in Harris County, Texas. This was just months after WWE purchased WCW in March 2001, following the promotion’s collapse.
Booker T’s Career Timeline During the Marriage
| Date | Event |
|---|---|
| August 1993 | Booker T and Stevie Ray debut in WCW as Harlem Heat |
| May 23, 1996 | Booker T marries Levestia (Harris County, Texas) |
| 1997–1999 | Booker T wins WCW World Television Championship six times |
| July 9, 2000 | Booker T wins WCW World Heavyweight Championship (Bash at the Beach) |
| July 10, 2000 | Levestia appears on WCW Monday Nitro (Jeff Jarrett guitar attack segment) |
| March 26, 2001 | WWE purchases WCW; the company folds |
| May 8, 2001 | Divorce finalized (Harris County, Texas) |
Her Only Television Appearance
Levestia Huffman has one confirmed on-screen appearance in professional wrestling.
The night after Booker T’s championship win at Bash at the Beach 2000, WCW Monday Nitro featured a segment in which Jeff Jarrett — who was working as a villain on television at the time — attacked Levestia with a guitar. The spot was scripted and in keeping with Jarrett’s character during that period. WCW regularly used family members of wrestlers in storyline segments to build sympathy for babyface champions, and this was a textbook example of that approach.
That segment is her only documented time on television. She did not pursue any further role in wrestling, entertainment, or any other public-facing capacity. Within a year, the marriage had ended, and she had withdrawn entirely from public life.
Booker T’s Life Before and After Levestia
To understand why Levestia Huffman’s disappearance from public life is so complete, it helps to see the contrast with Booker T’s trajectory.
Before the Marriage
Booker Tio Huffman Jr. was born on March 1, 1965, in Plain Dealing, Louisiana. His father died when Booker was less than a year old. His mother died when he was thirteen. He was the youngest of eight children and eventually moved in with his older brother Lash at age seventeen. While still just seventeen, he became a father himself with the birth of his son, Brandon.
At twenty-two, Huffman was arrested for a series of armed robberies at Wendy’s restaurants in Houston and was sentenced to five years in prison. He served nineteen months at the Texas State Penitentiary in Huntsville, completed his GED while incarcerated, and was released on parole. Determined to stay straight, he picked up a job at a storage company in Houston and earned custody of his son.
His brother Lash suggested they try professional wrestling. Booker’s boss at the storage company loaned him the $3,000 needed to pay for training. After eight weeks of training under Scott Casey, Booker debuted as G.I. Bro on the independent circuit. He and Lash eventually joined the Global Wrestling Federation as The Ebony Experience, winning the GWF Tag Team Championship three times before signing with WCW in 1993.
During the Marriage (1996–2001)
Over the five years of his marriage to Levestia, Booker T became one of the most accomplished performers in WCW history. He won six World Television Championships, five World Heavyweight Championships, and became the first non-mixed-race African American to hold a world championship in WWF/E. He finished WCW’s run as the final WCW World Heavyweight Champion and United States Heavyweight Champion.
After the Divorce
Booker T joined WWE and became a six-time world champion overall. He won the 2006 King of the Ring, became the 16th Triple Crown Champion and eighth Grand Slam Champion in WWE history, and holds 35 championships across WCW, WWE, and TNA combined. Booker T was named by BET as the Greatest Black Wrestler of All Time.
He married Sharmell Sullivan on December 22, 2005. They have two children together, Kendrick and Kennedy, and live in Texas. He was inducted into the WWE Hall of Fame in 2013 individually and again in 2019 as part of Harlem Heat, making him a two-time Hall of Famer. As of 2026, Booker T serves as a commentator on WWE’s NXT brand and owns Reality of Wrestling (ROW), the independent promotion he founded.
“When I got in this business more than 30 years ago, I said when it was over with, I just want my name to ring with the best wrestlers that have ever did it, and I feel like I’ve achieved that.” — Booker T, via HOF Podcast
The arc of Booker T’s public life — from orphaned teenager and incarcerated young man to two-time Hall of Famer — stands in sharp contrast to Levestia’s deliberate and sustained absence from public view.
Has Booker T Spoken About Levestia?
Not in any documented public forum.
Booker T has discussed difficult chapters of his life openly in various interviews and podcasts over the years, and his autobiography — Booker T: From Prison to Promise: Life Before the Squared Circle — covers his personal history in depth, including his time in prison and his journey as a single father. However, no confirmed public statement from Booker T specifically discussing Levestia Huffman by name has been widely reported or cited.
His public narrative since 2001 has focused on his career resurgence in WWE, his second marriage, his family, and his work training the next generation of wrestlers at Reality of Wrestling.
The silence from both sides is consistent and unbroken.
Where Is Levestia Huffman Now? (2026)
No one in the public domain knows.
An unverified data point from over a decade ago suggested she may have been living in the southeastern United States. That information has not been independently confirmed and should not be treated as current.
As of 2026:
- No confirmed social media accounts exist on any major platform
- No interviews, public statements, or appearances have been documented since 2001
- No verified professional or business presence appears in public records
This level of absence is unusual even among people who deliberately step back from public life. Most individuals connected to well-known figures leave some kind of trace — a LinkedIn profile, a local news mention, a public business registration. Levestia has maintained an absence that predates Instagram and X, and has continued it through two decades of the internet becoming progressively harder to avoid.
What her life looks like today is genuinely unknown.
Conclusion
This article draws on Harris County (Texas) public records for marriage and divorce dates, WCW broadcast records for the television appearance, and publicly available biographical information about Booker T from WWE, interviews, and his autobiography (Booker T: From Prison to Promise: Life Before the Squared Circle).
Information about the Hodge brothers’ parentage comes from their own public statements and biographical profiles, including a first-person essay by Edwin Hodge about his family. Maven Huffman’s biographical details are drawn from his public WWE profile and verified biographical sources.
Where information cannot be verified — particularly regarding Levestia’s current location, professional activity, or personal life since 2001 — this article states so explicitly. No unverified claim is presented as fact.
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