Mike Tyson’s wives – ‘one in bed with Brad Pitt’ and ex-con who stole his heart

Mike Tyson is almost as famous for his personal life as he is his sporting achievements.

This weekend the former world champion will return to the boxing ring for the first time in 15 years when he faces Roy Jones Jr in California.

Tyson, once dubbed ‘the baddest man on the planet’, has undergone a huge transformation in recent years – training hard in the gym and keeping his life on track.

And he credits one woman with helping him beat his addictions and getting him back on the straight and narrow, his beloved wife, Lakiha Spicer.

Tyson said: “Without my wife, I’m a savage animal… I look at women differently as I get older. I’m very happy me and my wife got together, because I don’t know how I would have survived out there.”

The couple had first met when Lakiha was just 18 but didn’t start dating until shortly before their marriage in 2009.

However, Lakiha was jailed for six months in 2008 for defrauding her father’s company and was pregnant with her future husband’s baby when she was sent to prison.

When she was released, she found her soon-to-be-husband had used drugs as a way of coping and he’s credited her with helping him beat his addictions.

The couple now have two children, Milan, 12, and son, nine-year-old, Morocco.

Tyson’s bout on Saturday will be the first time Lakiha has seen her husband in action in a boxing ring.

Before tying the knot with Lakhia, Tyson had been married twice before – first to actress Robin Givens and doctor Monica Turner.

Tyson and Givens wed in 1988 but their marriage was a tumultuous one and lasted just 12 months.

There were rumours of violence and domestic abuse and in a bombshell interview, with her husband sitting next to her, Givens described life with the boxer as “torture, pure hell, worse than anything I could possibly imagine”.

She claimed her husband was a manic depressive and just a month later, she filed for divorce.

Tyson himself admits he squandered his massive fortune when he was still at the top of his game and has described himself as “an animal with money”.

Following the breakdown of his marriage to Givens, Tyson claimed he had caught her in bed with Hollywood A-lister, Brad Pitt.

The couple had separated but the boxer would still visit his ex at home almost daily,

He claims it was on one of these visits that he caught Brad Pitt in her bed.

Tyson said: “I was mad as hell. I was going to… you should have saw his face when he saw me.”

He then wrote in his autobiography: “He looked like he was ready to receive his last rites.”

Despite his acrimonious divorce from actress Givens, Tyson went on to marry for a second time, to paediatrician Monica Turner.

The couple tied the knot in 1997 in a quiet ceremony after meeting seven years earlier at a party thrown by actor Eddie Murphy.

Monica, a doctor who worked in Washington, even visited Tyson every two weeks when he was jailed for rape.

They had hoped to live a peaceful life in their home in Maryland but just four years later, Monica filed for divorce, citing adultery.

They have two children, Rayna and Amir.

After 11 years of marriage, Tyson finally seems to have found his soul-mate.

He said: “That’s why I got married three times, ’cause I can’t live without a wife. If I don’t have a wife, I’ll kill myself. That’s real talk. I need somebody to listen to. I’m a soldier. I can’t think on my own, I need somebody to do it…I know myself.

“And at this stage in my life, they’re my teachers. If a man doesn’t have a little bit of fear of his wife, he’s not living his life right.”

Lahika is devoted to her megastar husband.

She said: “I could never really get him out of my system. I would try and then we would get back with each other. He’s the only person I was ever able to fall back in love with several times.

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