SOURCE: ZUMAPRESS.COM / MEGA
After being accused of raping a woman violently in a limo in the early 1990s, Mike Tyson, a former heavyweight boxing champion, is facing a $5 million lawsuit.
The alleged victim said in an affidavit submitted in Albany County, New York, that she met Tyson at a club and was welcomed into his limousine. She thought he was going to take her and someone else to a party. Before allegedly raping the victim, Tyson allegedly made an effort to kiss her while they were driving to the party, which she rejected.
“I met Mike Tyson in the early 1990s at a dance club called Septembers,” the affidavit read. “My friend and I were hanging out with him and his limousine driver. Tyson told us about a party and asked us to join him. My friend was going to drop off her car and Tyson said he would pick her up in the limousine.”
“He then pulled my pants off and violently raped me,” the lawsuit stated. “As a result of Tyson’s rape, I suffered and continue to suffer from physical, psychological, and emotional injury.”
The accusations were brought under the recently passed Adult Survivors Act in New York, which grants victims of sexual abuse a one-year window in which to bring claims that would otherwise be barred by the statute of limitations.