Tyson Suing King

Fri., March 6, 1998

Compiled From Wire Services

Former heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson has filed a $100 million lawsuit against Don King, alleging the promoter cheated him out of tens of millions of dollars over more than a decade.

The lawsuit filed in U.S. District Court in Manhattan named King and his companies as defendants, alleging they acted as one entity to enrich King at the expense of a vulnerable, unsophisticated boxer who could not understand contracts.

Peter Fleming Jr., a lawyer for King, said he had no comment on the lawsuit.

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