Dana's desire to keep his wife away from the spotlight might have something to do with his complicated relationship with his mother, June White. In 2011, June discussed her son while promoting her book Through A Mother's Eyes, The Dana White Story: An Unauthorized Biography, and she alleged that he often had affairs with "ring girls" and that he even had a relationship with his sister-in-law. 

She went on to refer to her son as "egotistical" and "self-centered." Dana never commented on his mom's harsh sentiments, or the affair rumors. 

In April of 2020, documents revealed that Dana was named in a lawsuit involving an alleged sex tape extortion plan. 

Per EssentiallySports.com, a man named Ernesto Joshua Ramos claimed that he made a deal with Dana in 2016 to keep an explicit tape of Dana with a nightclub dancer in Brazil private. The alleged sexual encounter between Dana and the dancer occurred in 2014, and the dancer was dating Ernesto at the time. She apparently took the video without Dana's consent, and she had reportedly been seeing him for several months. 

Ernesto was later arrested for trying to extort $200,000 from Dana. A civil suit was filed against Dana in April of 2020 as Ernesto claimed that the UFC president paid him off to plead guilty to extortion charges years earlier. 

Dana denied paying Ernesto off in a statement. 

"I just found out that a bulls--t lawsuit was filed against me yesterday. This guy went to federal prison for trying to extort me over five years ago. Now he's hired a lawyer who is also a convicted felon, and he's trying to extort me again for $10 million. He got no money from me last time and he won’t be getting any money from me this time," he said in his statement. "I look forward to the court dismissing this quickly so I can get rid of these scumbags forever."