Mike Tyson converted to Islam in prison after being convicted of rape in 1992. But with Tyson, piety and sin are always entwined. As he was becoming a Muslim and reading the Koran, he was also having illicit sex with a woman who was his prison drug counselor; "so much sex that I was too tired to even go to the gym," he says in his new memoir, The Undisputed Truth. Tyson's book, co-written with Larry Sloman, begins in Brooklyn, and after he becomes the youngest heavyweight champion in history at age 20, accelerates into a long period of Jackie Collins-level excess: drugs, mansions, cars, orgies. In 2000, he earned $65.7 million, but writes, "I was fucked financially," because he began the...
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