From Tupac Shakur to Martin Luther King’s children: Ferocious Mike Tyson had an endless list of celebrities visit him in prison
Mike Tyson had some of the best years of his life while his stay in the Prison. He had a some of the biggest stars of his generation who payed a visit to him inside the prison.
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Mike Tyson, Whitney Houston and Tupac Shakur (Image Courtesy Mail and Gaurdian)
Mike Tyson made his professional boxing debut in the late 80s and was already tearing through the ranks by the turn of the decade. Iron Mike became the sport’s youngest heavyweight champion at the age of 20. Yet in 1992, his incredible ascent to the top abruptly came to an end when he was found guilty of raping Desiree Washington.
Tyson was sentenced to six years in prison along with four years in probation. However, being one of the most popular athletes on the planet at the time, many big names came to visit him in prison. From Tupac Shakur to Whitney Houston some of the biggest celebrities of the era came to pay him a visit.
Outlining some of the people who came to visit him Mike Tyson revealed in an interview, “I love my three years in prison I had the balls…everybody came to visit me …Whitney Houston, Bobby brown everybody came…salt-n-pepper…Tupac came, Martin Luther King’s kids came …Betty Sabazz came …MC Hammer came uhmm…Micheal Jackson’s Mother and Father came and looked out for me.” Rapper Ice Cube also visited him in the prison.
Mike Tyson did have a memorable experience while imprisoned, which he considers being the best three years of his life. Tyson was treated like a king in prison, receiving all the food he desired and having sex behind the bar, contrary to what most people would anticipate from a stay in a prison.
When Mike Tyson has an affair with his counselor while in jail
Mike Tyson initially had a hard time coping in prison. However, after a year he got a hang of the surroundings and started to enjoy his stay inside the prison. He revealed one of his unique tales from behind the bars in an interview with Vlad TV.
Mike said, “I’m dating one of the counsel workers now, she’s letting me have sex with her now… So by passing the GED they took that year away…so I had to start dating this counsellor and stuff, giving her money and doing really some nasty stuff to her, and she let me pass this test…I came in with 50-something [years]. They cut it all the way down to three years.”
Mike eventually got out of prison in the year 1995 after completing his three-year stay behind the bars. He managed to revitalize his career and managed to capture the WBC heavyweight championship within one year in 1996. He fought his last professional fight in the year 2005 after competing in 58 matches throughout his career.
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