NEW YORK—A woman has filed a lawsuit accusing former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson of raping her sometime in the early 1990s after she met him at a nightclub in Albany, New York.
The woman, who is suing for $5 million, said Tyson raped her in a limousine and that she has suffered from “physical, psychological, and emotional injury” in the years since then.
The woman’s affidavit does not provide a date for the attack but says only that it happened in the early 1990s—around the same time that beauty pageant contestant Desiree Washington said Tyson raped her in Indianapolis. Tyson was convicted of raping Washington on Feb. 10, 1992, and served three years in prison….