Tyson's Hatred for Rape-case Woman

Boxer Mike Tyson today denied raping a beauty queen 12 years ago - but said he was so angry with her he would do it now. The former world champion was jailed for attacking Desiree Washington, 18 at the time, in an Indianapolis hotel room in 1991. He told the Fox TV network in an...
Boxer Mike Tyson today denied raping a beauty queen 12 years ago - but said he was so angry with her he would do it now.

The former world champion was jailed for attacking Desiree Washington, 18 at the time, in an Indianapolis hotel room in 1991.

He told the Fox TV network in an interview to be aired tonight: "She's a lying, monstrous young lady. I just hate her guts.

"She put me in that state, where I don't know ... But now I really do want to rape her and her ... mama."

Tyson, 36, claimed Washington accused him of the assault in 1991 because she was "money hungry".

He said witnesses who would have supported his story were barred from testifying in the 1992 trial.

"Have another trial, and if I lose, I do my time again."

Tyson served three years of a six-year sentence for the attack before being released on parole.


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Published: 5/29/2003
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