Meanwhile, polygamist groups are busy distancing themselves from Jeffs, who made plenty of enemies on his journey to power.

FORBES: Polygamist FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Sentenced to Life in Prison

Warren Jeffs, leader of a polygamist sect of the FLDS, a fringe Mormon group, was sentenced to 119 years in prison for sexual assault.

FORBES: Polygamist FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Sentenced to Life in Prison

And now they are coming up the road to my place because I'm a poet, and I live in a compound defended by polygamist haikus.

NPR: After The Bailout

In polygamist societies there is a mismatch between the number of women and number of men available as mates, since one man may have several wives (or more).

FORBES: Polygamist FLDS Leader Warren Jeffs Sentenced to Life in Prison

Mitt Romney, a Mormon and the great-grandson of a polygamist, is in fact one of the few Republicans who has stayed married to the same woman, his high-school sweetheart.

ECONOMIST: How far can a ��two-for-one�� candidacy go?

Jeffs is probably the world's most famous polygamist.

NPR: Jailed Polygamist Leader Jeffs Hospitalized

Hospital and law enforcement officials remain tight-lipped about the condition of Warren Jeffs, the jailed president and prophet of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints (FLDS), the nation's largest polygamist group.

NPR: Jailed Polygamist Leader Jeffs Hospitalized