Idi Amin’s first wife, Sarah Kibedi, defied her parents’ wishes when she married him at the age of 22 in March 1962.
She converted to Islam and began calling herself Mariam.
It did not take long for her to realise that Amin was involved with several other women.
Frustrated by his infidelity, she devised a plan to catch him cheating by lying that she was travelling to visit her parents in Busoga.
To her shock, Amin encouraged her to take the trip and even suggested she stay longer for rest.
She secretly returned to their home and found Amin with another woman named Kay Adroa.
A fierce fight broke out between the two women while Amin attempted to calm them.
He later apologised to Mariam and vowed never to repeat his actions.
However, a week later, he married the same woman, Kay Adroa, as his second wife.
Mariam only discovered the wedding when she saw Amin and Kay exchanging vows on television in May 1966.
In his book The Dungeons of Nakasero, Apollo Wuod Okello Lawoko recalled that Amin once asked him to help Kay secure a job at Radio Uganda.
She was employed there, and Amin frequently picked her up after work.
One day, Kay arrived at work with a swollen face and informed Lawoko that Amin had beaten her.
She warned him to distance himself from Amin because he was capable of harming anyone.
According to Lawoko, who was the manager of Radio Uganda, Amin once stormed the station looking for Kay while she was presenting a live programme.
When the programme manager attempted to stop him from entering the studio, Amin punched him.
He burst into the studio, shouting wildly, grabbed Kay by the collar, dragged her out, and drove off with her.
From that day forward, Lawoko resolved to avoid Amin as much as possible.
By 1967, rumours began spreading that Amin was seeing yet another woman named Norah.
Both Mariam and Kay confronted him to explain who Norah was.
Amin responded by beating both of them severely.
The following month, at a public event, Mariam and Kay had just taken their seats when Amin walked in with Norah.
The two co-wives immediately attacked Norah, resulting in a chaotic fight.
That night, Amin took all three women home and beat them again for humiliating him in public.
A week later, he officially married Norah as his third wife.
Not long afterward, Amin met another attractive woman named Madina Najjemba.
He married her in 1972, making her his fourth wife.
Amin believed Madina was the ideal partner he had long been searching for.
He chased away the other three wives and told them they were free to remarry.
He announced this decision during a cabinet meeting, declaring Madina his only wife from that moment.
Despite this declaration, he failed to curb his desire for more women.
Just two years later, he fell in love with a military dancer named Sarah Kyolaba.
He married her in a grand ceremony attended by diplomats and foreign dignitaries, including Yasser Arafat and Vice President Daniel Arap Moi.
In 1982, while Amin was living in exile in Saudi Arabia, Kyolaba left him and took with her one of their children, Faisal Wangita.
She briefly worked as a lingerie model in Germany before moving to London, where she opened a restaurant.
In 1999, she was arrested and charged under the Public Health Act after customers complained about cockroach and mouse infestations at her establishment.
In 2007, her son Faisal was arrested by London Metropolitan Police for involvement in a gang that murdered an 18-year-old Somali man in Camden.
He was convicted of conspiracy to wound, sentenced to five years in prison, and later deported to Uganda.
Sarah Kyolaba died in London in 2015.
