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...just interested in doing what's best for the children," said Dershowitz, who has represented celebrities such as Claus Von Bulow, Michael Tyson and Leona Helmsley. "It needn't become a focus of public concern," he said. But now that Allen has met with the press to "pre-empt the action," said Dershowitz, "everybody is suffering...
Perennial faces in the news includes outspoken professor of Law Alan M. Dershowitz, the author of Chutzpah who recently made headlines for leading Mike Tyson's appeal. Ron Silver played Dershowitz in Reversal of Fortune, a film based on Dersh's defense of Rhode Island aristocrat Claus von Bulow...
Behind bars, Tyson had his first serious run-in with prison authorities when he threatened to "whup" a guard after they argued in the commissary. Tyson was given four days' solitary in the disciplinary unit, where he was forbidden to work at his job in the cellblock recreation area, for which the ex-champ earns 65 cents an hour. He also had his earliest possible release date pushed back 15 days, to April...
...Tyson earned $60 million in his six years as a professional boxer -- including $20 million in 1988 for his 91-sec. title fight against Michael Spinks -- but had only as little as $5 million by last year. Last week he was forced to borrow against his own $2 million retirement account to help pay off the $2 million in legal expenses incurred during his rape trial last February, including a six-figure sum for celebrity attorney Alan Dershowitz to conduct his appeal. Former Tyson accountant Mohammed Khan reportedly claims that the boxer has "no liquid assets," only real estate...
That may have been the worst, but it was not the only embarrassing news Iron Mike faced last week. In a syndicated television interview, Erinn Cosby, 25, daughter of entertainer Bill Cosby, alleged that three years ago she fought off Tyson after he made sexual advances toward her. King called her claim "absolutely not true...