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Mike Tyson is known internationally because he is one of the greatest legends of American boxing. Yet now the same has been sued in New York State by a woman who accuses him of raping her in the early 1990s.
On the demand, The woman is seeking $5 million in damages, according to court documents filed. this month before a court in the city of Albany and that they met this Tuesday.
The claim is supported in a law that has opened a one-year period in New York to seek justice for sexual crimes that have so far been prescribed and under which legal actions have also been initiated against other well-known figures such as former US President Donald Trump or actor Bill Cosby.
In this case, the alleged victim claims she met Tyson at a club in Albany and that later she got into a vehicle with him to go look for a friend, in where she explains that after getting in the car immediately Tyson began to touch her and tried to kiss her.
“Tyson immediately started touching me and tried to kiss me. He told him no several times and I asked him to stop, but he kept attacking me. Then he took off my pants and violently raped me.” explains the plaintiff in an affidavit.
The woman, whose identity is being kept anonymous, It does not specify the date of the attack beyond that it occurred in the early 1990s. In addition, to this we also have to remember that in 1991, Tyson was arrested for raping an 18-year-old woman, Desiree Washington, at an Indianapolis hotel. and later cHe was sentenced to six years in prison, of which he served just under three in prison.
The 56-year-old boxer, who He was world heavyweight champion between 1987 and 1990, he always maintained his innocence in that case
With information from EFE
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