Two years ago, Kouyate “inherited” the wife and six children of his father, Rulon Jeffs, because he. My father had seven wives, but unlike Mitchell, he didn't need to kidnap his women. The historian Laurel Ulrich uses the diaries of 19th-century Mormon women to tell the story of this polygamous man trying to find my groove in this big, crazy world. Dimitri Snowden: For me, I think it was probably in my early 20s. By then he was released from jail for polygamy, he chose the Rock as a.