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Mike Tyson has been having a spot of a renaissance. In June 2023, the erstwhile heavyweight champion of the satellite was awarded the Belgium Golden Gloves (known locally arsenic “Gant d’Or”) astatine a gala lawsuit successful La Louviere, Belgium. The grant commemorates a person’s lasting done the sporting and cinema worlds, with Mike being lone the 3rd planetary property to person it, down 2 French movie stars.
Mike Tyson and Lakiha Spicer successful 2019. (Monika Graff/UPI/Shutterstock)
“[This is] a precise important lawsuit successful Belgium and precise important for the Belgian boxing world,” Marc Duvinage, president of the Belgium Golden Gloves, said of the event, per The Ring. “Many champions were contiguous to applaud the surviving fable of boxing.”
The renewed spotlight connected the arguable superstar has newbie fans clamoring to cognize much astir him, including his emotion life. With 3 ex-wives and six children with 3 women, determination is simply a batch to unpack to get the 4-1-1. Let’s get to learning astir Mike’s romances, below.
Robin Givens
Robin Givens, calved November 27, 1964, was already celebrated erstwhile she met Mike successful 1987. The gorgeous histrion was the speech of the municipality arsenic brainy quality Darlene connected the ABC sitcom Head of the Class.
Mike Tyson and Robin Givens successful 1987. (Everett Collection)
The mates soon joined successful February 1988, but the honeymoon signifier didn’t past long. In an explosive 20/20 interview with Barbara Walters the pursuing September, Robin described the matrimony arsenic “torture, axenic hell, worse than thing I could perchance imagine.” A period later, she filed for divorce, citing spousal maltreatment and was granted a impermanent restraining order. Mike sought an annulment, accusing her of stealing millions of dollars and manipulating the public. Robin responded by filing a $125 cardinal libel suit for defamation. Their divorcement was finalized on Valentine’s Day successful 1989.
Robin, who loves to station astir her beingness connected Instagram, would spell connected to grow her household successful 1993 erstwhile she adopted her archetypal son, Michael “Buddy” Givens. Four years later, successful 1997, she exchanged vows with her tennis instructor, Svetozar Marinković. However, their marital bliss was short-lived arsenic she filed for divorcement lone a fewer months later. In 1999, she welcomed her 2nd son, William “Billy” Jensen, into the satellite with her erstwhile boyfriend, tennis subordinate Murphy Jensen.
Monica Turner
Mike Tyson and Monica Turner joined successful 1997. (Shutterstock)
Monica Turner, who was calved successful Washington D.C., had a accidental brushwood with Mike astatine a enactment hosted by Eddie Murphy successful 1990 astatine the comedian’s location successful New Jersey. An instant transportation formed betwixt them, and they remained successful interaction implicit the pursuing years.
In fact, during the clip erstwhile the boxer was imprisoned for charges of rape and misconduct, Monica, the half-sister of Michael S. Steele, the erstwhile Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, made regular visits each 2 weeks to prolong their relationship, according to The Washington Post. The outlet besides spoke astir their narration during Mike’s sentence, reporting “Turner routinely enactment speech her arduous pre-medical people enactment to sojourn him.”
The mates tied the knot successful a backstage Muslim ceremonial successful April 1997, sharing their peculiar time with lone their closest loved ones. Despite their joyous moments of becoming parents to their son Amir and girl Rayna, Monica recovered herself shouldering astir of the responsibilities successful caring for the children, arsenic Mike’s enactment commitments kept him distant from location for extended periods. Eventually, successful aboriginal 2002, Monica alleged Mike’s infidelity and extravagant spending habits arsenic reasons to record divorce.
Monica is presently moving arsenic a pediatrician successful Bethesda, Maryland, and is affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She maintains a debased illustration and prefers to enactment retired of the nationalist eye, arsenic she doesn’t look to person an Instagram.
Lakiha Spicer
Mike and Lakiha Spicer started dating backmost successful 2000 aft Mike’s promoter Don King introduced them to each different aft 1 of Mike’s boxing matches. At that time, Mike was 29 and Lahika lone 18. The duo ended up fostering their red-hot romance and decided to necktie the knot successful 2009, exchanging vows successful backstage ceremonial astatine the La Bella Wedding Chapel astatine the Las Vegas Hilton.
“I could ne'er truly get him retired of my system,” Lakiha, who doesn’t look to person an Instagram, said of Mike to The New York Post in 2012. “He’s the lone idiosyncratic I was ever capable to autumn backmost successful emotion with respective times. Usually erstwhile I’m done with idiosyncratic I’m implicit it. I’d deliberation I’d person him retired of my strategy and past we’d commencement talking again and it was conscionable connected again.”
Mike shares Milan, arsenic good arsenic son Morocco, with Lakiha, who goes by “Kiki.” When asked astir Milan’s rising vocation successful tennis backmost successful 2020, Mike told reporters, “I ever explicate (to Milan), ‘If you truly privation to bash this, you speech about [Novak] Djokovic, Serena Williams, this is what you person to do. You can’t complain. You person to emotion it. That’s what subject is. You hatred to bash it, but bash it similar you emotion it.’”
Meanwhile, the boxer has 4 different surviving children: girl Mikey, 31, with ex Kimberly Scarborough, daughter Rayna, 25, and son Amir, 24, with ex-wife Monica, and son Miguel, 18, with ex Sol Xochitl. He besides had a girl named Exodus with Sol, but she died erstwhile she was 4 years old.
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