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Name: Brandon
Comment: Not to downplay the claims of Robin Givens, because there are women who're %*$aulted everyday, but at this point there's no way to prove Robin's allegation. Why wait 20 years, 2 kids, and another failed marriage to talk about it? Mike Tyson has since lost his mind and his money, and he's in no position to even respond to these claims... of course if it's true, I hope she got some form of therapy.
Name: Brandon
Comment: That edited word was supposed to be a-s-s-a-u-l-t-e-d.
Name: bigheadbull2
Comment: She got her money's worth
Name: huey
Comment: will u puleeeeeeeezzze go away with this story, what is he-double-tooth-picks is going on in that head of yours??? why are you still squalking about this. let that brother live. why are u still trying to eat off of this old azz story??? give it a mothereffin break why dont cha??? whewwwwwww
Name: TGen
Comment: Brandon you ask "Why?" Publicity and subsequently sales...money is the bottom line. I think it's extra tacky to share this, especially in detail and all, and considering this dude is just about as low as one can go, you have to wonder about the character of someone who would dare stoop as low as he [allegedy] did if he raped her, in that exploiting the "rape" is in many ways just as bad as the act itself. But I digress, if her publicist or agent didn't have sense enough to tell her she does NOT want to re-hash a time when so many viewed her as a gold-digger (i.e. the infamous Barbara Walter interview), then who am I to say anything, lol.
Name: ChocolateBrownGal
Comment: I hate to think that she is just seeking attention. But I think Robin does these things to keep her face in the spotlight. And her most visible time in the media was when she was with Mike. Now if she does a reality show with volatile ex-couples (i.e.,Joey Buttafuuca & Amy) I'm done! For the sake of your kids tho', please get some help!
Name: eddie
Comment: Robin Givens is an UGLY,UGLY woman,Robin is a LIAR,she is looking for attention,go hide your self Robin Givens,because you are to UGLY.
Name: McNasty
Comment: She needs to let it go already! She's told her story all over the place since after the divorce - just now adding this doesn't make it any more interesting if it even happened. Why would she wait this long to say she had been raped? she told everything else. Robin - get a damn job!
Name: nycGYRL888
Comment: As >>ChocolateBrownGal stated, her time with Mike was the most "interesting" in the public eye. She knows no one will buy her book or even check it out at the local library if additional Mike drama is NOT added. Her Head of the Class days and Women of Brewster place stories just won't cut it if she is trying to sell books. But the fact remains, we ALL know Mike is a loser and I don't want to spend hours reading more about his tragic episodes with Robin. I think we"ve had enough 2 decades ago!
Name: FiveMore
Comment: Spousal rape is horrible(down right criminal)but Ms.Givens should let sleeping dogs lie!This kind of reminds me of that scene in "Whats Love Go to Do WITH it"!Ike is still mad about his business being put out on the streets like that.She needs to leave Mike alone because his mind/money is already gone.Sheesh..
Name: Gurlfrand
Comment: Spousal rape does happen - however, i'm sure Robin's publisher of this book encouraged her to use this information as a way to get the public's interest in her book - sad and pathetic as it is, but, a sale is a sale....
Name: sigmascribe
Comment: Ditto,ditto,ditto!!!!!
Name: DOne
Comment: I agree with everyone. I wonder how much time she actually devotes to Mike in the book. Sometimes a publisher will build up a book around a certain topic and then you read the book and realize there's only one paragraph or only a page or two devoted to that topic.
Name: B00TANEB00TUS
Comment: ...Big, black, hulking monster with a dyck hanging like a,a,a,a black elephant's trunk attacks and rapes beautiful(?) starlet...Ok, whose interest was piqued?...Huh?...Sounds like the chick is tryna sell a book...Raging, sweaty, brute-like man-child lays waste to former Cosby guest star...Black behemoth bangs babe brutally with...Man, Robin needs to quit that sh1t...Like everyone has already stated, Mike is bananna pudding....Didn't she alreay rake him enuff?....Battering Black Bruiser plunges deep into the inner vaginal cavity of...Ya'll get my drift...It's really a shame she would come out now...WTF didn't she report this to the cops?...Bewitching Black starlet befuddles Boxer with butt and boobs and and, and, Bamboozles him....Why didn't she write that?...Huh, what?....
Name: letmein
Comment: CTFU @ Boots!!! You'z a fool!
Name: butterpecanrican
Comment: Eddie, I'm curious. How do you know she is a liar. Were you there to know that she is?
Name: dutches150
Comment: I grew up in the same neighborhood as Iron Mike. We knew the same people and attended the same school. While khe is definately a looser, he is also a product of his environment and circumstances. If in fact this did happen to Robin I hope she has received the help she needed to get through it. I believe she was and is an opportunist. We all know that Mike was gullible and naïve when he got with Robin and she used that to manipulate their relationship. She just didn't realize the price that she would have to pay would be so high. Now she is using the once was relationship and the details of said relationship to capitalize. She just needs to leave this alone, because it has run its course and thank God that she made it out of this relationship alive.
Name: ReginaBio1
Comment: Boot!!! I'm crackin' the hell up here and my students are wondering what's do darn funny! Everyday I look on EUR for a laugh from, and just about everyday, Boot delivers. Thanks! Now I can make it through the day! Oh yeah, and Robin needs to quit, she'd done and everyone knows it. A book won't make a damn bit of difference now. Stupid bytch!
Name: lovelace
Comment: Why didn't Robin come forward with this information when he was on trial for raping Desiree? Desiree could have used Robin's testimony to back up her claim of rape when the public had her on trial (b/c Desiree was really the one on trial.) Robin needs to get a life!
Name: BigSexy
Comment: Boots, you never disappoint me. I have had my good laugh for the morning. We all know Mike is crazy, but like dutches said, I don't think Robin knew the price she would have to pay by marrying this fool. I'm sure this was not a one time thing either. I'm sure he did this to her more than once.
Name: DCGG
Comment: Who gives a fuvk, I'm sick of this bytch...
Name: gingerg
Comment: Robin is trifling and tired. Though this may have happened, she has no credibility and bringing it up now is not going to increase the flat book sales. Also, I don't appreciate that she is furthering the stereotype as Boot so eloquently put it.
Name: whynotme
Comment: -->FiveMore i saw ike in an interview after this movie came out and he said that the rape scene in that movie never happened.....that may be true because they do like to dramatize stuff in movies.
Name: katgrrrl
Comment: Lovelace, that's the question of the day!!!! I seriously wonder how many copies of this book will be sold. Is there actually a demand for a book about Robin Givens!? It's only a matter of time before she's on a VH1 reality show.
Name: PRDC
Comment: Yeah right....
Name: gingerg
Comment: I never liked Robin Givens. She has that devious look about her. Also, did anyone know that she once dated Brad Pitt?
Name: MOTHERSHIP
Comment: Oh, bytch, puleeze. Ginger, I ain't never featured her either. Bytch always been an opportunistic snake.
Name: ccognac
Comment: Did this dummy actually write "he was swinging from a railing"? She lost me after that.
Name: realuvbaby
Comment: >Robin & Her Publishers ... and your point is WHAT at this point??? What/Who is she? Mike Tyson's Fred Goldman??? Gurl, puh-lease ... Not to downplay any kind of rape -- spousal or otherwise -- but how many wives have to give it up without candlelight and music and truffles and a Newport or Kool Mild?
Name: gingerg
Comment: Mother, whatever happened to Robin's mammy? She was lown down, too. As I recall, she helped keep up a lot of mess.
Name: Zumbagirl
Comment: Open Letter to Robin Givens: I know it's hard out there for a modestly talented, minimally attractive, middle-aged African American starlet. And it sucks that you got edged out of the Ex-Wives' Club reality show by Shar Jackson who (gasp) isn't even an ex-wife -- you got ROBBED, girlfriend (no pun intended). But re-warming that already overdone tragedy that was your marriage to the now utterly defeated "Iron Mike" is not the answer. There are more positive alternatives, like sending in that application for the Surreal Life. Take care. -- Candy Spelling
Name: dede0320
Comment: Yeah ginger, you are right, remember she filed a suit against the pro baseball player, Dave Winfield, for giving her Herpes or something and come to find out he was not the one that gave it to her..she is dirty too...Yeah Robin, did date Brad Pitt, he used her though, when he made it big he would never hardly acknowledge that he dated her, she is a trick, and she tricked Mike too, even though, Mike is crazy, but you can't expect to take any Man's money and use him, treat him like he's stupid and expect him to sit back and be your best friend, not a crazy fool like Mike, Robin, let it go.....YOU HAVE HAD YOUR 15 MINUTES OF FAME..YOU ARE A HAS BEEN...!!!!
Name: dede0320
Comment: Expect that Book to be at the Half Price book store on the clearance shelf..as a buy one get one free, Robin take that forehead back to the swamp you came from..i don't like any sister that dogs a brother on national TV like she did, Yeah Mike is crazy, but I think she set him off...
Name: Southernbelle
Comment: If more mofos would report crimes to the police before the publisher then maybe many of these celebrities wouldn't think they're above the law. As for Robin, she knew what she was getting herself into when she signed on the dotted line and married this nutcase. She was looking for a quick payday. I hope all of the azz whippings and etc. was worth it.
Name: Mas90
Comment: Dede0320... Why does Brad pitt have to acknowledge he dated Givens for? How do you know it was only publicity? I don't know why still interracial dating is such fuel for fire. It's centuries old. So let it go. Obviously this is just an attempt to move sales of the book. Got ya girl
Name: katgrrrl
Comment: Zumba & dede, LOL!
Name: golfebj
Comment: She's got two kids by two washed up tennis pro's that never really even hit it big and this is her new meal ticket. She's has been replaced by Gabrielle Union, Sanaa Lathan and dare I say it Megan Goode. Robin...we've upgraded.
Name: leeneepoo
Comment: Hello FAM:> Robin claims in this article that she did not receive a dime: http://www.essence.com/essence/themix/entertainment/0, 16109,1623775,00.html?xid=060507-EssenceBreakingNews-T hroughtheStormRobinGivens
Name: archcookies
Comment: This skeezer needs to go somewhere and be quiet. Talking about a gold digger.
Name: Bad_Kitty
Comment: Who cares anymore Robin??! Please go away.
Name: Peekiebear
Comment: Archcookies and everybody else calling Robin Givens a golddigger and worse. Will we all think about protecting OUR women instead of pointing the finger at them? I was a rape counselor for years and I saw this bull---- attitude from family and friends all of the time. It is NEVER the victim's fault and I don't care if she walked down the street naked- no one has the right to rape you. So if you're married, you can't be raped?! So if you're dating, you can't be raped?! And unless the woman gets rape counseling or some form of counseling to treat the problem- the effects of rape never go away. It is such a shame that we have so little respect for our own women. And by the way- why did Mike Tyson marry her? Because she was as ugly as he? Believe me, plenty of people were afraid to speak out against Mike Tyson back then. So many of you need to grow up- Black women are raped more than anyone- period. And if any woman who has been raped has not received counseling- then I urge you to go to a rape counseling center where you can be heard, believed AND respected. Thank you.
Name: Shortey71
Comment: @lovelace, hmm?? why didn't she come forward with this during the Desiree trial? This is total Bullsh*t.
Name: Eastwood
Comment: I'm buying it.
Name: Bad_Kitty
Comment: Peekiebear: My problem with RG is the fact that she is trying to capitalize off of this situation. Most folks (me included) do not have sympathy for her because of the way she carried/handled herself during and after her marriage to Mike Tyson. Can someone say, "Barbara Walters interview?"
Name: archcookies
Comment: >peekiebear since you named me specifically I will answer this way. If this was an issue with this woman why didn't she report this to the authorities at the time of the incident instead of trying to link it to promote a tell-all book. I take the charge of rape seriously and I think the only reason she is offering this is because it is salicious and people will buy smut. Any woman that is raped is a victim. I am not a Mike Tyson fan, but that woman and her mother set this man up to take money from him and now twenty years later she is denigrating his name with this accusation. Everybody knows Mike is a fool but if she had legitimately been raped why so there no news at that time. She does what a lot of white people do, make a mess, then write a book.
Name: Victornator
Comment: Hopefully some women who is going/went through something like this with her boyfriend, husband, or stepfather and has remained silent will read your comments and shut the %*$!( up and let this eat at her for the rest of her life.
Name: leeneepoo
Comment: Eastwood:> I'm not sure if you are buying the accusation or the book? but either way I'm agreeing with you and I believe that this is going to be an interesting read to purchase. A lot of women today are being labled as what I hear everyone is calling Robin but there is always to sides to every story and maybe when Tyson gets his self together he can write a book as well. I'm not knocking the sister in fact in some ways I can relate to her "hurt" expressed in the article. I hear.. why she waited so long to talk about it? Often times people will block trauma out of their minds and pretend as though nothing took place until one day they realize that they need to release the dragon...personally I believe that is what she is doing..simply releasing some of her hurt and experiences through a book and hoping that someone would find a form of peace within her words..that's just my observation, and opinion from a sister that knows what she has experienced.
Name: gingerg
Comment: Perhaps some of the thinking is that if you married under suspect circumstances, you bargained for everything that came along with the deal. Personally, I couldn't see consensual with Mike much less anything else. However, I agree that rape is a serious issue and it can happen to married, single,etc. women and men. No should always mean no. Period. I heard this a.m. that Mike said something like that happened, but they were roll playing. To hell with that.
Name: MOTHERSHIP
Comment: Tell it, Bad_Kitty! That Barbara Walters interview was disgusting. Gingerg, I don't whose worse her or her moms. Her Moms basically pimped her.
Name: realuvbaby
Comment: “climbed on top of me . . . and grabbed me by my throat.” Why didn't she call the authorities 20 years ago?? Two days later she went on TV and said Mike was "physically abusive." Yea, OK!! In any event, I've said that these tell-alls are getting out of hand. I'm putting forth a bill for congress that will put a statute of limitations on tell-alls.
Name: FiveMore
Comment: whynotme>Ike has a right to be angry about that particlar scene in the movie.IMO,the director really out did himself with creative imagery.Boot>I refuse to laugh at Mike's elephant sized appendage,terrorizing the lonley damsal in distress that was way too graphic for me!lol
Name: Shortey71
Comment: Okay, I have a confession to make which is giving me a different perspective of Robin. My mother was sexually abused by her step father when she was a child. She blocked it out of her mind when she married and had me. After getting married at 15 and having me at 16, she became a full blown alcoholic and had struggled with her addiction for years. She decided to get herself together around 1987 so she dedicated herself to the LORD and stopped drinking and started going to church. Well she felt that something else was blocking her way to hapiness and went to see a therapist. The therapist hypotized her and took her back to the days when her step father use to rape her. In order to void that feeling she's been carrying all those years, she had to comfront my step grandfather which was one of the hardest things she ever had to do but becasue her mother did not belive her. She did it and now her inner soul is free. So, I am saying this to say that maybe Robin finally got her inner soul back and is ready to tell it all. Lord knows they talked bad about my mother saying that she should have not said anything after all those years but she did and now she's a happier person. I thought I'd come to Robin's defense one time even though she isn't my favroite person.
Name: gingerg
Comment: Shortey, you may be on to something there. I just read the Essence peice and that is exactly what she is suggesting. People have various ways of dealing with the pain of sexual abuse (i.e., promiscuity, drugs, alcohol, low achievement, etc.). In our community, sisters are quickly labeled as "too fast" or loose if they are violated by male relatives, family "friends," etc. I have uncles who make sexually suggestive comments all the time. Several years ago, I was at a family reunion and he approached commenting about what a nice azz I have. My grandmother poo pooed the comment, stating that he was just joking. My uncles don't joke. They mean it. One even sexually %*$aulted his own stepdaughter and spread rumors that she was "messing with boys" to cover it up. He was convicted of child endangerment. Back then, they didn't call it what it is.
Name: FiveMore
Comment: Shortey>Deep story!I am glad your mother turned over those impossible burdens to Christ.He fixes broken people and all things wrong in our lives!I pray that Mike and Robin let him in to their lives!
Name: dede0320
Comment: <Mas90...dear you really took the comment wrong, my comment is based on the fact, that we even though weknow that Mike is crazy, she dogged the brother on national TV before we even knew he was a crazy fool..I still say yeah, he does not publicly acknowledge dating her, when you ask who he has dated in the past, and it has come up several times, because of the Bradangelina thing, Robin Givens name is never , ever, ever , mentioned, I call it like I see it..it is reality babe, maybe you need get over it....that comment does not specify or point out anything regarding interracial dating, maybe you have the issues, maybe you would like to fuel the fire? i date out my race, but I still deem by black brothers strong, "Free your mind, and the rest will follow"...
Name: dede0320
Comment: Why would he not acknowledge her, why shouldn't he, they even lived together...please, Reality check please!!!
Name: Fragrance
Comment: I recently saw Mike at church and he was getting himself together....Can't a brotha get a break? If God can forgive his past why does it have to keep coming up in books (and all media outlets)? I'm sure Mike is at peace with himself and God....I hope that Robin finds peace (I thought she did as didn't she state that on Oprah once?) As for book sales, I'm with you, she's gotta make those sales. I'm in the position where as an author I get 50% of each book sold and my royalty checks off my short story novel book, Fragrance, are not even mentioning (too low)...I would be tempted to come off with some type of hype story too so people would buy it...but then again, it wouldn't be the same as my book selling because it was actually a 'great' story. Robin and her people know what they're doing...too bad it is at Mike's expense. Maybe Mike should write a 'tell all' book.
Name: TJthemilitant
Comment: Okay so Mike raped her and did a King Kong off of a balcony?..Child please!;;If he raped her, she is raping him right back..They'll be giving this dumb azz book away with a full tank of gas at the APlus!
Name: nycmckoy
Comment: I don't know if he did it or not, but I will say that I am leaning toward the not. This is a woman who married him thinking she had found a fool and a cash machine. She continued to date another guy, all the while thinking she could keep this idiot in check. When things didn't go as she thought they would she began to complain that he was this and that. She complained to others on the set of her show, She would tell them oh my he kicked my %*$ can you believe that. When she said it she said it as if to say can you believe he did that to ME Robin Givens, not oh man this man is dangerous. She actually thought that she was his come up instead of visa versa. Trust me I know of what I say, I knew one of the cast memembers on the show. I always say Karma is a beeyach. Saying that if it did happen I hope she is healed. If she is lying again Karma will whip that azz all over again.
Name: justafu
Comment: Between all that raping of her that Tyson did & all those white dudes she's dated I'm sure it'll make for an interesting book! Bottom line...she needs some money!
Name: 212121
Comment: I am not surprised to see people still defending Mike. He admitted to punching her so why are so many of you so sure he did not rape her. Mike is a nut case and I would not be surprised if he has not raped other woman. Why do we as black people defend the crazy and demented people in our community? So what that this happened 20 years ago. If it is true it is true.
Name: 4mybabygirl
Comment: I never liked Robin Givens. But, I do believe that there is some truth to the story. Also, she did not get anything from her marriage. You can read the story at Essence.com. It is apparent that Tyson has some issues. But, I do think she was an unexpected victim. She thought she was getting some money but instead got her %*$ kicked! (lol) It is weird that she only dated rich men, Mike Tyson, Mike Jordan, Brad Pitt, and Eddie Murphy. Now they are all running. I do believe her motives was to be a gold digger. But, her relationship with Tyson ruined that. Besides, I think she was just looking for someone to love her or material things to make up for a lost of love she hadn't received from her father. If you read the story it is sad. There is no love like Christ and I'm glad Robyn realizes that!
Name: joyandpain
Comment: I bought the book and was surprised to learn that Mike had knocked Robin out cold "before" they got married. To all the women around the world -- if a man even thinks about raising his fist at you - GET OUT OF THERE! Do not stay in the name of "love". Love does not "hurt". I'm sorry Robin's self esteem allowed her to go on and marry Mike Tyson. I'm glad Mike and Robin are getting therapy for their lives.
Name: YLawdY
Comment: For me the issue isn't whether or not he raped her, but why yet seemingly another attempt to capitalize off her relationship with Iron Mike. He probably did all that and more, but do we need to know about this in book form? Her catharsis has an editor. Most people just go to counseling.
Name: Closet_Nerd_Girl
Comment: >pookiebear, shorty and gingerg- Thanks for being the voices of reason. I agree with all 3 of you. As for the question of why didn't she say something when it happend- ARE YOU KIDDING ME? The public had already labled her as the "gold-digging bytch" and Mike was the "poor, innocent victim" of her feminine wiles. She would have been raked over the coals and crucified. "Physically abusive" was probably the best she could do, and it was not a lie... She probably decided to keep quiet about the specifics for survival's sake. You see what happened to Desiree Washington. One poster mentioned that Robin's experience probably could have helped Desiree's case if she had been a witness. This is true. Who knows, Robin may still have been in survival mode or had blocked it out. But no matter, Tyson was convicted anyway. On a similar note, I read the book "Pursuit of Happiness" by Chris Gardner. In it, he shares that when he was an adolescent, he was raped by a dude who walks with a limp. He never told anyone. So, if he did bring it up in his book, no one would know. But for whatever reason, he chose to share the information. It is, after all, a part of his life's experience. That's how I view Robin's revealing that she was raped by Mike.
Name: beegirl
Comment: Some rape victims go public as a final step in healing. *shrugs* And we would be foolish to believe that all rape victims report their stories to the police. Maybe the Barbra Walters interview was a way for her to get back at him for the rape 48 hours before. We live in a society where the victim is always looked at as someone trying to get over in some way. So if this did happen to her, I don't think she is a bad person or a liar for waiting to talk about it. Many rape victims, sadly, never feel supported enough or strong enough to come forward. It doesn't make their experience any less real.
Name: arkansasgirl
Comment: whynotme, haven't read all the posts yet so don't know if someone has mentioned this. But I read Tina Turner's autobiography(the book the movie was made from) and it was in the book he raped her in the studio.
Name: Southernbelle
Comment: I agree rape is no joking matter and I don't care if the predator is a stranger, husband, boyfriend or etc. But, in this case she felt bold enough to punk his azz on public television just 48 hours after the "rape". She aired all of his faults so why not speak on the %*$ault. Also, has she gone to the police yet.
Name: Mas90
Comment: Dede... I stand corrected. You're right. I could careless about Robin being a gold-digger or not. She is a great actress. Boomerang was her thang. I wish her continous success in acting. She release a new movie to DVD.
Name: gingerg
Comment: Ike's crazy azz is in denial. That mean spirited creep has done so much dirt/drugs he probably doesn't remember all of it. I'm so glad Tina Turner got away from him. She is beautiful and talented.
Name: archcookies
Comment: Robin Givens is far from a great actress, in most of her roles she was casted as the femme fatale. Again I am no fan of Mike's but dayum after all of this time she suddenly remembers the rape. One other poster mentioned that interview with Barbara Walters, they blind sided Mike Tyson, he looked like a deer caught in the spotlight. If he had raped her why didn't she reveal it at that time, since she was airing out all of his bad behavior. Her as her skinny azzed gold digging mother did a job on him. Rape is serious but if you are raped you should go to the police not an editor/publisher.
Name: archcookies
Comment: correction as = and
Name: beboyz
Comment: Who gives a rat's a.z.z.??? Robin's career has gone no where. I might check this book out at the library (Not) I sho aint buying it. You can't blame Robin she got her triflin "gold diggin" ways from her ruthless Mama. Her mama sued Dave Winfield for giving her Herpes and she won the case and got a huge payday.
Name: adifferentpath
Comment: my thoughts: It's interesting, to say the least, to read everyone's comments. A lot of us saw, Woman Thou Art Loosed, but even if you didn't, a lot of us have female family members that experienced abuse. the effects don't have a time limit- to the: "why didn't she bring this up 20 years ago?" Another thought, let's say Robin is/was a gold-digger. (people kill me with that by the way, b/c most of the folks in hollywood could be labeled as such depending on who's writing the story but cool) she's digging. she finds a fools gold pot. She gets abused. that's not part of the contract. period. and if she said, on national tv, that he was abusive-then daYUM wasn't that one step towards "speaking out." if we just like her skinny butt, cool. but when she said something, what happened? now she broadcasting a brotha's business. we crucify women for getting abused. dayum. he's crazy, she's a digger, where does beatin my a-z-z-pirin become inherent? then we wonder why women don't report/speak out/go to counseling (if you have time and money to afford it- and we're talking about the black community here- counseling-ummm hmmm). So, if we're gonna love our brotha's so much that they can lose themselves tryna succeed in this capitalistic system that we're hoes and such as well as kickin my a-z-z-umption, and "understand" him being a product of his environment, then hey! we should understand her being a product of her'n. Anutha thought: she's writing a book. The purpose of making it puplic IS to sell that mess. Go figure. (smile). I don't even like Robin Givens but if we got Mike's back with all of his taste-for-ears ways, then we can sho' have her'n. Peace.
Name: adifferentpath
Comment: amendment: if we "don't like" her skinny butt, cool. (was to be written above)
Name: Closet_Nerd_Girl
Comment: Correction, "...So, if he did NOT bring it up in his book..."
Name: thatbklyngirl
Comment: 21212 thank you, I'm truly sitting here disgusted and appalled that yet again, a psychotic black man gets a pass, and a black women is left hung out to dry. I'm not saying Robin is an angel but to say she doesn't have a right speak out cause its 20 years later is about as stupid as if those who say boys raped by Catholic Priests shouldn’t speak out, “oh just get over it”. We don’t need white people putting us down cause we do a pretty good job of it ourselves. This is truly a pitiful day on this board.
Name: Train
Comment: Did she have amnesia and it suddenly came back to her?? Robin needs to go sit her tired azz down somewhere and get on with her life. I was still in college when she got married to him and if I was Mike I would've went the other way. That b.s. where she said that she and her Mama were a "package deal" would've been the deal breaker. She's been throuhh a couple of other marriages since then so she should go sit down and shut the f'uck up. I'm glad that Holly Robinson whipped her punk azz in college.
Name: Gurlfrand
Comment: Don't forget Robin also dated Howard Stern after he split up with his wife -
Name: ladybyrd
Comment: Robin you controlled that relationship not Mike Tyson and it showed on the interview with Barbra Walters. Go find some work for yourself. You have already bled this man dry, you and your mother.
Name: McNasty
Comment: Y'all can accept her 'repressed memory' excuse if you want to but it's funny that she remembered every other detail under the sun in all the interviews she did. In her place I'm more likely to remember the rape as opposed to him putting his hands on my throat. It's also funny that every detail she didn't remember her low down mother did. After all this time it's just not believable.
Name: McNasty
Comment: Gurlfrand, ewww now that's just nasty!lol
Name: njack731
Comment: My question would be why remain in the relationship further if you have been so viciously raped? That does not mean that it did not happen, but only a sick person would have remained there. I wonder if he raped her mother too? Perhaps I will buy the book. We may be seeing only the tip of he iceberg, here.
Name: Train
Comment: If this really happened hjow come she didn't file charges two decades ago adn let the legal system take it's proper course of action. She is so dayum pathetic and her mama too.
Name: duckapoo
Comment: It's Robin's story to tell if she wants. Men get away with rape everyday because of the unsympathetic ears of the public. Maybe nothing can be done to Tyson after all this time but I am sure that she feels a sense of freedom from letting all the gory details out. I am glad she wrote this.
Name: katgrrrl
Comment: I know that domestic violence is nothing to make light of (and believe me, I'm not!). However, I just can't help but wonder how it woulda gone down had Iron Mike stayed with Naomi -smack-my-b*tch-up- Campbell...
Name: OSUN
Comment: It is still amazing how this woman evokes so much anger, resentment,and ridiculousness from people. Since I have never been sexually %*$aulted I wont even begin to wonder why she waited this long to speak on the rape or her reaction to it. Whether she bamboozled Mike Tyson really is irrelavent to me b/c he is certifiable and we all know it. I truly feel sorry for him b/c he is lost and suffers just because he exists. I dont doubt that he did this, if he can chew an ear and spit it out, he can rape his wife while choking her and then commence to swinging from the railings like King KOng.
Name: Train
Comment: I'm not downplaying domestic violence by any means. I'm just wondering if there would've been a book deal in place if she wasn't married to Tyson 'cause it's not like her acting career was starting the world on fire. As a law enforcement officer you always report the crime when it happens and not wait 20 years after the "fact" because then it's hard to believe and there's a statute of limitations to consider.
Name: gingerg
Comment: I once read that Mike said he likes for women to suffer; he likes hurting them, so I don't believe that she made it up. Unfortunately, some men view their wives as property to do with as they please. She probably thought he would kill her if she told it earlier.
Name: gingerg
Comment: njack, women and men stay in relationships for all kinds of reasons including emotional dependence, financial dependence, the appearance of "status," concern about what family and friends will say, fear of the unknown as well as fear of failure. Why do women stay with men who repeatedly cheat or beat them while they are pregnant? And the list goes on and on.
Name: Train
Comment: If you stay with somebody that's cheating on you or beating your azz then you're stupid. Those type of acts aren't about love so why stick around?? No one would buy her book if she didn't mention about her marriage to Mike. I can't even remember the names of the ladies I was with when I was in college at that same time because I eventually moved on.
Name: katgrrrl
Comment: I wondered too, why'd she wait so long to talk about it? Thought I had the answer: to sell her book. Then again, many women experience a lot of shame when they're violated. Robin may have mistakenly felt like she was in some way responsible or that she was already deemed the villain of the relationship so who would support her? I really don't know. I am by no means a fan, casually or otherwise of Robin. She turned me off back in the day, but the nail in the coffin was when reports flew of her demanding that her make-up artist use makeup several shades lighter than her natural shade!WTF's up with that!? Anywho, if this did happen to her, I'm sorry. Rape is something I wouldn't wish on my worst enemy and one of my biggest fears.
Name: ez3372
Comment: If you haven't already done so, if you go on www.essence.com, you can read her whole article where she talks about Mike Tyson, her life after Boomerang, and her kids. I think she is capitalizing on their marriage, but what else does she have?? I mean, really?? But what it failed to mention was when she ran over that little old lady in Miami....shame!
Name: goodnplenty1957
Comment: somehow when the word GOLD-DIGGER appears, ROBIN GIVENS name pops up. but in case she wasnt after mike's money, etc...How many of yall noticed when they got married she didnt take his last name.ever wonder why???? because she would have gave away her full intentions..take her first name, and his last name and you got was she was doing...ROBIN-TYSON..YEP she was ROBBIN' TYSON!!
Name: bobbob30095
Comment: LET IT GO LOUIE, HAS THAT MAN NOT GONE THROUGH ENOUGH HE IS A SAD POOR BROKE MAN THAT WAS USED AND NEGLECTED BY MANY, MANY PEOPLE AND ROBIN AND RUTH ROPER-GIVEN WILL BURN IN HE11 FOR THE SH1T THAT HAVE DONE TO THAT MAN HE SHOULD HAD BEEN DECLARED INCOMPETENT YEARS AGO AND HE WOULD STILL HAVE MONEY.
Name: RMP7772000
Comment: Huey and ChocolateBrown I agree with you. I think she still has some feelings for Mike. It's sounds crazy, but that's what i'm looking at. She misses the money and the fame. I hope she gets the mental help she needs soon for her children's sake as well as hers! Let the man be please Robin.
Name: RMP7772000
Comment: Lets not forget the the mommy dearest story where her mother talked her in to stealing $9 million dollars from Mike and putting it in to her private account. And the court made her give it back! So hey, why rehash now when he can write a book also! Happy Birthday Mike, we have the same birthday-June 30, 2007 and we lived in the same neighborhood in Brooklyn,N.Y. and the great Singer Lena Horn.
Name: RMP7772000
Comment: bobbob30095 lets not forget Don king with his stealing Mike's cars/money while he was in jail!
Name: CNickyD
Comment: Actually, this isn't the first time she's mentioned this. I remember Robin alluding to this in a previous interview years back. At that time, all she said was that he sometimes liked "rough sex", but you could she was really uncomfortable as she said it. She's also mentioned being physically abused by him before. I believe her 100%.
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