We learn more about the boxing legend’s third wife, Lakiha Spicer, as he prepares to face YouTube impostor Jake Paul on November 15, 2024. He is now getting close to 60.Lakiha Spicer is who?
Lakiha Spicer was born on June 11, 1977, in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Her father, Shamsud-Din Ali, was a well-known religious figure and boxing fan, therefore she came from an African-American Muslim household.
Lakiha is the third wife of former heavyweight boxing world champion Mike Tyson and a businesswoman, novelist, and entrepreneur.
In addition to running a clothes store, she co-wrote the program The Undisputed Truth, which was based on Mike’s life and debuted in August 2012 with two honors.Meeting Mike In 1998, when she was eighteen and Mike was twenty-eight, Lakiha, also known as Kiki, met Mike.
Following one of his altercations, Don King introduced the two.
However, Kiki was cautioned by Mike’s former promoter to avoid the boxer.
In the early 2000s, when Mike was still married to his second wife, Monica Turner, the couple began an intermittent romance.A prison term Kiki was found guilty in 2008 of stealing £60,000 from her father’s business.
In connection with the money-laundering plot, she was found guilty of fraud and conspiracy and sentenced to six months in prison.
Kiki was condemned to prison while pregnant with ‘Iron’ Mike’s child; she found out just one week before her sentencing.
Addiction When she came out, she discovered that the former heavyweight champion was addicted to narcotics.
But Mike credits Kiki with helping him wean himself off of his addictions.
He told the American magazine People, “I’m really glad my wife and I got together because I don’t know how I would have survived out there.”
When my wife isn’t there, I act like a wild beast.
Mike Tyson Urgently Mike’s third marriage began on June 9, 2009, when they were married.
In 2024, Kiki and the boxer will celebrate their fifteenth wedding anniversary.
Children Kiki and Mike are parents to two children: a son named Morocco Elijah was born in 2011 and a daughter named Milan was born in 2009.
The 58-year-old has further children with Rayna, Amir, Miguel, and Mikey Lorna, all of whom are different women.He was previously wed to Monica Turner and Robin Givens.
Effects Mike’s stability and personal development have been greatly aided by Kiki.
The heavyweight has credited his third wife with helping him change his ways, and their marriage has survived his first two.
In 2020, Tyson stated to ExpediTIously: “I’m a savage animal without my wife.
“As I age, my perspective on women changes. I thought of them as pleasure when I was younger.