Mike Tyson: Tragedy of An Ex-Champ

Mike Tyson, who gets millions to kick butt in the ring, is sued for millions more for allegedly pinching same at a beauty pageant

Mike Tyson has inspired many epithets: the Mighty Joe Young of boxing, Don King's twisted Trilby, America's most volcanic son-in-law. For three years he was also known as the heavyweight champion of the world. But the organizer of the Miss Black America Pageant has topped all Tyson name callers. In a $21 million lawsuit alleging sexual assault of 11 of the 23 contestants at last month's competition, J. Morris Anderson charged the ex-champ with being "a serial buttocks fondler."

Innocent until proved guilty -- except, of course, on the front page -- Tyson has been staggered by the body punches of...

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