MIKE TYSON turned to voodoo witchcraft in his desperate bid to reduce his rape prison sentence.
When the Baddest Man on the Planet was found guilty of assaulting Desiree Washington in 1991, he feared judge Patricia Gifford would go for the most severe punishment of up to 60 years.
Mike Tyson was a brillaint and terrifying heavyweight championCredit: Getty – Contributor
Tyson, at the time the 25-year-old former world champ, was told by his infamous boxing promoter Don King that he would walk away from the charges.
And he went to extreme measures to try to ensure he could continue his mega-money comeback from his shock 1990 loss to Buster Douglas.
Tyson, 53, always insisted the liaison with Washington was completely consensual but had already been found guilty by a jury when he decided to turn to black magic and sorcery to try to earn the shortest sentence possible.
In his book, Tyson recalls considering expensive urine spells, washing in iffy oils and finally settling on smashing a pigeon egg.
Mike Tyson always loved pigeons and used one in a magic spell to try to reduce his prison sentenceCredit: Reuters
Mike Tyson suffered a shock 1990 defeat to James Buster Douglas – then claimed it was because he had too much sexCredit: Reuters
The ring legend wrote: “Calvin, my close friend from Chicago, told me about some hoodoo woman who could cast a spell to keep me out of jail.
“‘You p*** in a jar, then put five hundred-dollar bills in there, then put the jar under your bed for three days and then bring it to her and she’ll pray over it for you,’ Calvin told me.
“So the clairvoyant broad is gonna take the p**** pile of hundreds out of the jar, rinse them off, and then go shopping.
“‘If somebody gave you a hundred-dollar bill they pissed on, would you care?’ I asked Calvin.
“I had a reputation for throwing around money but that was too much even for me. Then some friends tried to set me up with a voodoo priest. But they brought around this guy who had a suit on.
“The guy didn’t even look like a drugstore voodoo guy. This a**hole needed to be in the swamp; he needed to have on a dashiki.
“I knew that guy had nothing. He didn’t even have a ceremony planned. He just wrote some s*** on a piece of paper and tried to sell me on some bullshit I didn’t do.
“He wanted me to wash in some weird oil and pray and drink some special water.
“But I was drinking goddamn Hennessy. I wasn’t going to water down my Hennessy. So I settled on getting a Santeria priest to do some witch doctor shit.
“We went to the courthouse one night with a pigeon and an egg. I dropped the egg on the ground as the bird was released and I yelled, ‘We’re free!’ A few days later, I put on my gray pin-striped suit and went to court.”
Mike Tyson was arrested and found guilty of the rape of Desiree Washington – he has always insisted he is innocentCredit: AFP
Mike Tyson turned to voodoo, witchcraft and sorcery to try to reduce his sentence.Credit: Alamy
Tyson had already spent one million dollars on lawyer Vince Fuller, on top of his weird meetings with quacks, cranks and magic men but he was issued with a six-year prison sentence and only had to serve three.
In retrospect he credits judge Gifford with saving his spiralling life as he found Islam while jailed.
But, in the moment she robbed him of his freedom, he was angry at himself for not downing one of the murky potions.
“‘F****** b****,’” I mumbled under my breath. I started to feel numb. That was the rape count.
“S***, maybe I should have drank that special voodoo water, I thought.”
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Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk
