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Robin Givens (born November 27, 1964) [1] is an American actress and director. [2] Givens played Darlene Merriman in the ABC sitcom Head of the Class in 1986, and remained on the series for its five year duration. Her troubled marriage to boxer Mike Tyson in 1988 drew considerable media attention, as did their acrimonious divorce.
In 1995, Tyson settled a sexual assault lawsuit brought by Phyllis Polaner, who in 1988 worked as a publicist for Robin Givens, Tyson’s first wife, according to the New York Times.
Tyson's first wife was actress Robin Givens. They were married in February 1988 in Chicago. The marriage was very tumultuous, with Givens claiming that Tyson was violent and mentally unstable ...
Mike Tyson: Divorce and Imprisonment. Mike Tyson earned his first fortune as an American boxing icon — so famous he even inspired a Nintendo video game. However, Tyson’s descent from riches to ...
This was only the beginning of Tyson's troubles. On September 5, Tyson was involved in a car accident that knocked him unconscious [6] A month later, Tyson's estranged wife Robin Givens filed for divorce on October 7 and in the following month filed a $125 million defamation suit against Tyson as well. [7]
A month later, Givens announced that she was seeking a divorce from the allegedly abusive Tyson, [224] with the two officially separating on February 14, 1989. [ 64 ] 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."
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Originally cast to play the husband, actor Michael Jai White ended up dropping out before the video shoot because Givens allegedly took issue with White resembling her former husband Mike Tyson, whom White played in the HBO film Tyson five years earlier. [13] [14] He would appear in the video for Braxton's "Hands Tied" a decade later.