Editing Mike Tyson (section)

=== Marriages and children ===
Tyson resides in [[Seven Hills, Nevada]].<ref>{{cite news|url=http://www.reviewjournal.com/doug-elfman/mike-tyson-spent-25m-move-down-the-street|title=Mike Tyson spent $2.5M to move down the street|author=Doug Elfman|newspaper=Las Vegas Review-Journal|date=March 11, 2016|access-date=April 12, 2016|archive-date=April 14, 2016|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160414211818/http://www.reviewjournal.com/doug-elfman/mike-tyson-spent-25m-move-down-the-street|url-status=live}}</ref> He has been married three times, and has seven children, one deceased, with three women; in addition to his biological children, Tyson includes his second wife's oldest daughter as one of his own.<ref name="Merkin-2011">{{cite news |url=https://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20Tyson-t.html |title=The Suburbanization of Mike Tyson |last=Merkin |first=Daphne |date=March 15, 2011 |work=The New York Times Magazine |access-date=April 7, 2015 |archive-date=April 7, 2015 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20150407221724/http://www.nytimes.com/2011/03/20/magazine/mag-20Tyson-t.html |url-status=live }}</ref>

Tyson married actress [[Robin Givens]] on February 7, 1988, at Holy Angels Catholic Church during a traditional ceremony in Chicago.<ref name="divorc1" /><ref>{{Cite journal |date=February 22, 1988 |title=Mike Tyson Weds Robin Givens In Chicago Church |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=gbsDAAAAMBAJ |journal=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |volume=73 |issue=21 |pages=54–55}}</ref> Givens was known at the time for her role on the sitcom ''[[Head of the Class]].'' Tyson's marriage to Givens was especially tumultuous, with allegations of violence, [[spousal abuse]], and mental instability on Tyson's part.<ref name="givens1">{{cite news|title=Mike Tyson vs. Robin Givens: the champ's biggest fight |work=[[Ebony (magazine)|Ebony]] |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n3_v44/ai_6932688 |access-date=April 24, 2007 |year=1989 |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20070515050704/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1077/is_n3_v44/ai_6932688 |archive-date=May 15, 2007 }}</ref>

Matters came to a head when Tyson and Givens gave a joint interview with [[Barbara Walters]] on the [[American Broadcasting Company|ABC]] TV [[news magazine]] show ''[[20/20 (US television show)|20/20]]'' in September 1988, in which Givens described life with Tyson as "torture, pure hell, worse than anything I could possibly imagine."<ref>[https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD7123CF933A0575AC0A96E948260 Wife Discusses Tyson] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080411073805/http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DEFD7123CF933A0575AC0A96E948260 |date=April 11, 2008 }}, ''AP via [[New York Times]]'', September 30, 1988. Retrieved April 24, 2007.</ref> Givens also described Tyson as "[[Bipolar disorder|manic depressive]]" – which was later confirmed by doctors<ref>{{cite news |last=Schaap |first=Jeremy |url=https://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2431583 |title=Who is the new Mike Tyson? |work=ABC News |date=September 13, 2006 |access-date=October 14, 2012 |archive-date=March 15, 2013 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20130315052549/http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/story?id=2431583 |url-status=live }}</ref> – on national television while Tyson looked on with an intent and calm expression.<ref name="givens1" /> A month later, Givens announced that she was seeking a divorce from the allegedly abusive Tyson,<ref name="givens1" /> with the two officially separating on February 14, 1989.<ref name="divorc1" />

According to the book ''Fire and Fear: The Inside Story of Mike Tyson'', Tyson admitted that he punched Givens and stated, "that was the best punch I've ever thrown in my entire life."<ref>{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/archives/la-xpm-1989-06-23-sp-2706-story.html|title=Robin Took Best Punch, Tyson Says in Biography|date=June 23, 1989|website=Los Angeles Times|access-date=February 8, 2019|archive-date=January 28, 2018|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20180128121504/http://articles.latimes.com/1989-06-23/sports/sp-2706_1_tyson-s-managers-tyson-friend-jose-torres-robin-givens|url-status=live}}</ref> Tyson claimed that the book was "filled with inaccuracies."<ref>{{cite book|last=Tyson|first=Mike|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=9SGKDQAAQBAJ&q=%22I%20never%20said%20that%20about%20women.%20I%20said%20that%20about%20my%20opponents%20in%20the%20ring%22&pg=PA209|title=Undisputed Truth, My Autobiography|publisher=[[Plume (publisher)|Plume]]|year=2013|isbn=978-0-14-218121-8|page=209|author-link=Mike Tyson|access-date=October 20, 2020|archive-date=December 8, 2020|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208043959/https://books.google.com/books?id=9SGKDQAAQBAJ&q=%22I+never+said+that+about+women.+I+said+that+about+my+opponents+in+the+ring%22&pg=PA209|url-status=live}}</ref> Tyson and Givens had no children, but she reported having had a [[miscarriage]]; Tyson claimed that she was never pregnant and only used that to get him to marry her.<ref name="givens1" /><ref>{{cite news |url=https://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=940DE1DA123CF935A15753C1A96E948260&sec=&spon= |title=Boxing Notebook; Lalonde-Leonard: It's Same Old Hype |last=Berger |first=Phil |date=October 26, 1988 |work=The New York Times |access-date=December 18, 2008 |archive-date=December 8, 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201208044000/https://www.nytimes.com/1988/10/26/sports/boxing-notebook-lalonde-leonard-it-s-same-old-hype.html |url-status=live }}</ref> During their marriage, the couple lived in a mansion in [[Bernardsville, New Jersey]].<ref>Gross, Ken. [http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20100208,00.html "As Wife Robin Givens Splits for the Coast, Mike Tyson Rearranges the Furniture"] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110323024058/http://www.people.com/people/archive/article/0,,20100208,00.html |date=March 23, 2011 }}, ''[[People (American magazine)|People]]'', October 17, 1988. Retrieved March 21, 2011. "The food lies untouched. The only sounds across the breakfast table in the Bernardsville, N.J., mansion are the loud silences of words being swallowed. Finally, Robin Givens, 24, star of the ABC-TV sitcom ''Head of the Class'', pushes herself away from the table and announces, 'I have to pack.' 'Me, too,' says her husband, Mike Tyson, 22, the world heavyweight boxing champion. Suddenly the Sunday morning atmosphere is tense and full of menace."</ref><ref>via [[Associated Press]]. [https://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-chronology_x.htm Mike Tyson Chronology] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20120427202512/http://www.usatoday.com/sports/boxing/2005-06-12-tyson-chronology_x.htm |date=April 27, 2012 }}, ''[[USA Today]]'', June 12, 2005. Retrieved March 21, 2011. "Oct. 2, 1988&nbsp;– Police go to Tyson's Bernardsville, N.J., home after he hurls furniture out the window and forces Givens and her mother to flee the house."</ref>

Tyson's second marriage was to Monica Turner from April 19, 1997, to January 14, 2003.<ref>{{cite news |year=2003 |title=Tyson finalizes divorce, could pay ex $9&nbsp;million |work=[[Jet (magazine)|Jet]] |url=http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_6_103/ai_97235749 |url-status=dead |access-date=April 24, 2007 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080113152855/http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_m1355/is_6_103/ai_97235749 |archive-date=January 13, 2008}}</ref> At the time of the divorce filing, Turner worked as a [[Pediatrics|pediatric]] [[Residency (medicine)|resident]] at [[Georgetown University School of Medicine|Georgetown University Medical Center]] in Washington, D.C.<ref name="smg1">[http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tysondiv1.html The Smoking Gun: Archive] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090630003517/http://www.thesmokinggun.com/archive/tysondiv1.html|date=June 30, 2009}}, ''[[The Smoking Gun]]''. Retrieved March 30, 2007.</ref> She is the sister of [[Michael S. Steele|Michael Steele]], the former [[Lieutenant Governor of Maryland]] and former [[Republican National Committee]] chairman.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Zeleny |first1=Jeff |last2=Lorber |first2=Janie |title=Profile of Michael Steele |work=The New York Times |url=http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/michael_steele/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=May 5, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100504074430/http://topics.nytimes.com/top/reference/timestopics/people/s/michael_steele/index.html |archive-date=May 4, 2010}}</ref> Turner filed for divorce from Tyson in January 2002, claiming that he committed [[adultery]] during their five-year marriage, an act that "has neither been forgiven nor condoned."<ref name="smg1" /> The couple had two children.<ref>{{cite web |date=November 19, 2020 |title=Ramsey Tyson Wants You to Stop Making Assumptions About Trans Kids |url=https://www.them.us/story/ramsey-tyson-mike-tyson-boosie-badazz-transphobia-trans-kids-interview |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20211007165021/https://www.them.us/story/ramsey-tyson-mike-tyson-boosie-badazz-transphobia-trans-kids-interview |archive-date=October 7, 2021 |access-date=October 7, 2021 |website=them. |language=en-US}}</ref>

On May 25, 2009, Tyson's four-year-old daughter, Exodus, was found by her seven-year-old brother, unconscious and tangled in a cord, dangling from an exercise treadmill. The child's mother untangled her, administered [[CPR]] and called for medical attention. Tyson, who was in Las Vegas at the time of the incident, traveled back to Phoenix to be with her. She died of her injuries on May 26, 2009.<ref>{{cite news |date=May 26, 2009 |title=Police: Tyson's daughter on life support |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/25/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=May 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090930201102/http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/25/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html |archive-date=September 30, 2009}}</ref><ref>{{cite news |date=May 27, 2009 |title=Tyson's daughter dies after accident, police say |publisher=CNN |url=http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/26/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html |url-status=live |access-date=May 12, 2010 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100127073018/http://www.cnn.com/2009/US/05/26/arizona.tyson.daughter/index.html |archive-date=January 27, 2010}}</ref><ref>{{cite web |first=Corky |last=Siemaszko |date=October 12, 2009 |title=Mike Tyson says he doesn't want to know how daughter Exodus was killed |url=https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/mike-tyson-doesn-daughter-exodus-killed-article-1.387104 |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20220601050251/https://www.nydailynews.com/sports/more-sports/mike-tyson-doesn-daughter-exodus-killed-article-1.387104 |archive-date=June 1, 2022 |access-date=January 10, 2022 |newspaper=[[New York Daily News]]}}</ref>

Eleven days after his daughter's death, Tyson wed for the third time, to longtime girlfriend Lakiha "Kiki" Spicer, age 32, exchanging vows on June 6, 2009, in a short, private ceremony at the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas Hilton.<ref>{{cite magazine |date=2009-06-10 |title=Mike Tyson Marries Two Weeks After Daughter's Death |url=https://www.tvguide.com/news/mike-tyson-marries-1006746/ |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100111010505/http://www.tvguide.com/News/Mike-Tyson-Marries-1006746.aspx |archive-date=January 11, 2010 |access-date=2024-11-17 |magazine=TV Guide}}</ref> They have two children.<ref name="Merkin-2011" />