Photographer claims Mike Tyson ‘tried to grab my breast’ during shoot but he insists they were in sexual relationship

MIKE TYSON’S former photographer has claimed that the legend tried to grab her breast in the 1980s.

Award-winning snapper Lori Grinker , 65, made the claim during her new pictorial book, ‘Mike Tyson,’ which includes a collection of photographs from the boxing star’s teenage years into the 1990s.

In the book’s preface, she wrote: “Mike could be very sweet and gentle when he was feeling it, and not very sweet or gentle when he wasn’t.

“He once tried to grab my breast, and when I pushed him away, he got angry and threw my light meter in the snow.

“He had a somewhat spoiled side and, being the champ, grew accustomed to getting his way.”

However Tyson, who pockets £500k-a-month from his cannabis empire, has not denied the story, instead he is saying that the pair were in a consensual sexual relationship when he was “around 17” and she was in her mid 20s.

The Daily Mail states that Grinker informed them that the then “immature teenager” Tyson never tried anything like that again and they continued to have a professional relationship.

But Tyson’s representatives told them: “In this day and age it’s unfortunate that Ms. Grinker was not more careful with her words omitting the fact that she was in a sexual relationship with Mike Tyson when he was a minor with almost a decade age difference.”

Grinker then stated that Iron Mike, 56, was inaccurate in his claim.

Then in a separate email to the Mail, Tyson’s spokesperson indicated that the pair, who met when he was 13, started their supposed relationship around 1983.

They stated: “He was around 17 and had sexual relationship (sic) with her on & off until about 21. He had sex with her also when he was champion in Atlantic City.”

Tyson’s spokeswoman initially described the former heavyweight as a “minor” in the claimed relationship, although they went on to explain that “minor is generally legally defined as a person under the age of 18.”

The Mail added that if “the alleged affair did occur when Tyson was 17, it would not have violated New York State consent laws enacted in 1965.” 

Source: Boxing - thesun.co.uk