Tyson charged

Press, 19 December 1988, Page 21

Tyson charged

NZPA-AP New York

A woman has charged the world heavyweight boxing - champion, Mike Tyson, of sexually molesting her in a Manhattan disco last week, the second woman to make the charge after alleged incidents on the same night. The woman, Lori Davis, aged 29, of Bay Shore on New York’s Long Island, said she planned to sue Tyson for mental anguish and trauma. Davis said she was dancing with a male partner at Bentley’s Disco Lounge around 2 a.m. on Sunday when “someone

grabbed my behind under my dress.”

“I turned around and screamed, ‘try that again and I’ll slap the ... out of you’,” she said.

“Then it dawned on me that I was screaming at the heavyweight champion of the world.” Tyson, in Los Angeles to announce his upcoming fight with Frank Bruno, has denied knowing the woman.

Davis said Tyson was standing on the dance floor with two male companions when the incident occurred. She said he put his hands up in the air and described her as “a live one.”