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African American model/actress Robin Givens first gained national prominence as a regular on the TV series Head of the Class. From 1986 through 1991, Robin played Darlene Merriman, a prep-school type attending a high school honors program. Though she was but one of an ensemble, Givens's participation in the series was hyped by the network on the occasion of her marriage to boxing champ Mike Tyson.
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A New Yorker by birth, Robin Givens displays some of the hardheaded personality traits the Big Apple is famous for. Her determination got her noticed as she solidified her acting career in the mid-1980s, but it torpedoed her two failed marriages. (But to be fair, her first husband, boxing champ Mike Tyson, isn't exactly famous for being diplomatic either.)
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Robin Givens has announced that she is filing for divorce from heavyweight boxing champ Mike Tyson. Said the actress, "Our marriage was like a PG-13 movie: Too much violence and not enough sex." Tyson apparently agrees, as he is filing for an annulment. ------- Mike Ciaraldi
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Robin Givens is an American actress who was born in New York City on November 27, 1964. She played Ms. Malone on The Cosby Show and achieved prominence as the wife (1988-1989) of boxer Mike Tyson.
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Shortly after the Barbara Walters interview on ABC's 20/20, Tyson reportedly goes into a rage in his $4.5 million mansion in Bernardsville, N.J. Robin says she is terrified. She packs her bags and flees to her Los Angeles home. She hires famed "palimony" lawyer Marvin Mitchelson to file divorce papers, alleging that Tyson had attacked her after the TV show, and that it was "the latest in a continuous horror story for me." She claims that "Michael has repeatedly hit me, thrown things at me, threatened to kill me" and ... "threatened to kill my mother, Ruth Roper, and my sister, Stephanie Givens, and an employe." She continues: "My husband, Michael Tyson, has throughout our marriage been violent and physically abusive, and prone to unprovoked rages of violence and destruction." She asks for an equitable share of money, properties and other assets. A few days later she and Mitchelson split and she hires another lawyer, Raoul Felder of New York.
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Tyson’s ex-wife, actress Robin Givens, traveled from Florida to the California State Capitol to discuss her personal history with domestic violence. Givens’ talk was part of Domestic Violence Month and the Second Annual Statewide Day of Awareness, hosted by the California Partnership To End Domestic Violence.
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