a woman denounces him for a case in the 90s – Corriere.it

Really black clouds appear on the horizon for Mike Tyson. The former heavyweight world champion, now 56, risks getting into trouble again. state accused of sexual assault by a woman, in a lawsuit filed in Albany, New York. The facts would have happened in the early 90s (at the moment, the exact year is not specified). The woman asked Tyson five million dollars (4.59 million euros)recounting how she was raped in a limousine after meeting him at an Albany nightclub and has since suffered physical, psychological and emotional damage. I told him no several times, but he kept attacking me. Then he took off my pants and raped merevealed the woman.

Darren Seilback, the alleged victim’s attorney, said his office didn’t just take the woman at her word for it, but investigated the allegations as highly credible. The lawsuit was filed under New York’s Adult Survivors Act, which gives victims of sexual assault the ability to sue for assaults that occurred even several years ago.

It should be remembered that already in the past, at the height of his success, Tyson was accused of sexual assault by a girl he met at a beauty contest in Indianapolis, Dsire Washington: this cost him his arrest in February 1992 and the sentenced to six years in prisonof which he only discounted three.

Released, therefore, in 1995 for good behavior (the same year as his marriage to Monica Turner), he made his return to the ring and in 1996 he won the WBA and WBC titles by knocking out Frank Bruno and Bruce Seldon respectively. Unfortunately for him in 2006 he had other judicial troubles for driving under the influence of cocaine and possession of the same drug. His life full of such episodes and incredible anecdotes, such as the missed fight with a gorilla in 1989, when Iron Mike wanted to give a romantic evening to Robin Givens, then his wife (the first of three marriages). And one evening, after hours, he booked an entire zoo for a private visit. Arrived at the cage of gorillathey saw that the most massive of the animals, a large male, he was subduing everyone else. Twenty-three-year-old WBA heavyweight title holder at the time, he decided to intervene: They were so powerful but their eyes were like those of an innocent child. So I offered the keeper $10,000 to open the cage and allow me to smash that gorilla’s face open. He refused, Mike Tyson said. Now the risk of new troubles for a life, that of Iron Mike, full of controversial events.