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Mike Tyson is again within the ring once more now that he’s agreed to battle Jake Paul — the social media star who’s 30 years Mike’s junior. All through 2024, boxing followers couldn’t comprise their pleasure over the match. However the champ has one fan who’s closest to his coronary heart: his spouse, Lahika Spicer.
With three ex-wives and a number of kids with three ladies, there’s a lot to unpack. Be taught extra about Mike’s present marriage and his ex-wives, right here.
Robin Givens
Robin Givens, born November 27, 1964, was already well-known when she met Mike in 1987. The attractive actress was the discuss of the city as brainy magnificence Darlene on the ABC sitcom Head of the Class.
The couple quickly married in February 1988, however the honeymoon section didn’t final lengthy. In an explosive 20/20 interview with Barbara Walters the next September, Robin described the wedding as “torture, pure hell, worse than something I might probably think about.” A month later, she filed for divorce, citing spousal abuse and was granted a short lived restraining order. Mike sought an annulment, accusing her of stealing thousands and thousands of {dollars} and manipulating the general public. Robin responded by submitting a $125 million libel go well with for defamation. Their divorce was finalized on Valentine’s Day in 1989.
Robin, who likes to submit about her life on Instagram, would go on to broaden her household in 1993 when she adopted her first son, Michael “Buddy” Givens. 4 years later, in 1997, she exchanged vows along with her tennis teacher, Svetozar Marinković. Nonetheless, their marital bliss was short-lived as she filed for divorce only some months later. In 1999, she welcomed her second son, William “Billy” Jensen, into the world along with her former boyfriend, tennis participant Murphy Jensen.
Monica Turner
Monica Turner, who was born in Washington D.C., had an opportunity encounter with Mike at a celebration hosted by Eddie Murphy in 1990 on the comic’s residence in New Jersey. An on the spot connection fashioned between them, they usually remained in touch over the next years.
In reality, through the time when the boxer was imprisoned for costs of rape and misconduct, Monica, the half-sister of Michael S. Steele, the previous Lieutenant Governor of Maryland, made common visits each two weeks to maintain their relationship, in response to The Washington Put up. The outlet additionally spoke about their relationship throughout Mike’s sentence, reporting “Turner routinely put apart her arduous pre-medical course work to go to him.”
The couple tied the knot in a personal Muslim ceremony in April 1997, sharing their special occasion with solely their closest family members. Regardless of their joyous moments of changing into mother and father to their son Amir and daughter Rayna, Monica discovered herself shouldering many of the duties in caring for the kids, as Mike’s work commitments stored him away from residence for prolonged intervals. Finally, in early 2002, Monica alleged Mike’s infidelity and lavish spending habits as causes to file divorce.
Monica is at present working as a pediatrician in Bethesda, Maryland, and is affiliated with the American Academy of Pediatrics (AAP). She maintains a low profile and prefers to remain out of the general public eye, as she doesn’t seem to have an Instagram.
Lakiha Spicer
Mike and Lakiha Spicer began courting again in 2000 after Mike’s promoter Don King launched them to one another after one among Mike’s boxing matches. At the moment, Mike was 29 and Lahika solely 18. The duo ended up fostering their red-hot romance and determined to tie the knot in 2009, exchanging vows in non-public ceremony on the La Bella Wedding ceremony Chapel on the Las Vegas Hilton.
“I might by no means actually get him out of my system,” Lakiha, who doesn’t seem to have an Instagram, mentioned of Mike to The New York Put up in 2012. “He’s the one individual I used to be ever in a position to fall again in love with a number of occasions. Often once I’m performed with somebody I’m over it. I’d suppose I’d have him out of my system after which we’d begin speaking once more and it was simply on once more.”
Mike shares Milan, in addition to son Morocco, with Lakiha, who goes by “Kiki.” When requested about Milan’s rising profession in tennis again in 2020, Mike instructed reporters, “I all the time clarify (to Milan), ‘If you happen to actually wish to do that, you discuss [Novak] Djokovic, Serena Williams, that is what you need to do. You’ll be able to’t complain. You must like it. That’s what self-discipline is. You hate to do it, however do it such as you like it.’”
In the meantime, the boxer has 4 different residing kids: daughter Mikey with ex Kimberly Scarborough, daughter Rayna and son Amir with ex-wife Monica, and son Miguel with ex Sol Xochitl. He additionally had a daughter named Exodus with Sol, however she died when she was 4 years previous.
