Exclusively on Womanhit - an excerpt from the book "Mike Tyson. Autobiography. Ruthless truth. "
"Star". After prison.
"After each of your battle, I went to Los Angeles from Bugov and went shopping for Rodeo Drive all day. After a good dinner, we took girls and went around the clubs. From time to time I went to the store "Versace" in the shopping and entertainment center "Palace Caesar", leaving every time one hundred thousand dollars every time. After our departure, the place turned into a scene from the movie "Trip to America", where the people dragged bags, bags, suitcases with junk. The irony was that most of the clothes in my cabinets simply hung without a business. I usually wore just sneakers and jeans or tracksuits. When I was in prison, Johnny Versace sent me an invitation to all my events. He knew that I could not come, but for him it was a way to let me know what he remembers about me. He was a stunning guy.
I had so much money that I sometimes could not even keep track of them. Once Lampidia, Assistant Rory, was to participate in a party at Roorie's home in New Jersey. She did not have time to collect a bag with things, so when she got there, she went to the guest room, where he saw a great sports bag "Louis Witton". She thought that the bag was either mine, or Rory, and, hoping to find a clean T-shirt there, opened it. She was shocked: there was a million dollars in cash. She immediately went to Rory in the room and showed him his find.
"Mike forgot, where he left this bag," said Rory. - I'll call him right now and ask you to borrow two hundred thousand dollars.
This bag was dusting there for another week. I had a difficult night in the city, and I forgot where it was left. Every time Lampidia took my clothes to clean in Las Vegas, she returned with plastic sealed envelopes, in which there were expensive bracelets or thousand twenty cash, which I left in your pockets. When it came to money, I did not delve into such small details.
But the obvious prosperity in my spent was my decision to buy crucible and liv. Another when I was in prison, I talked with my car dealer Tony. I really wanted to know which new cars should do, and Tony suddenly told me that he was going to buy a tiger or a lion and ride with him in his Ferrari.
"Listen, I also want a tiger," I said.
Tony reported on this Anthony Pittsu, and as soon as, coming out of prison, I returned home to Ohio, I saw on my lawn four crucible. They fascinated me. I played a lot with them and soon realized that they were digitally different from our domestic cats. They were very picky and angry when they played too much with them. It should be recognized by their character, because in a few years they had to turn into a beast of seven feet long and weighing more than four hundred pounds. Having matured, they could stand on the back paws and the shock's blow to cut a skull to me.
I made friends with a white tigers. It was a female, I called her Kenya. She went with me everywhere and even stayed with me in bed. Those who were familiar with wild animals could not believe that I had such relationships with her. They argued that in the thirty years never saw that the White Tiger would be everywhere after someone, as Kenya did. She walked around the house and screamed like a child, looking for me. If I had a girl at home, I stored Kenya outside in her forbidden zone, and she screamed there. In the hot summer nights, when she had a territory, she was so long until I came and did not stroking her stomach.
Kenya quite often ran out of the house itself. Updated outside, she sat down on the visor of the pool and looked through the fence on the horses Wayne Newton. She could easily jump over the fence, but never did it. We hired a trainer who called Kate to work with her, and I paid him for training $ 2,500 a week. My assistant Darryl and those who cleaned the house helped grow it, but now they did not want to approach her. She sometimes bit them, and they did not particularly trust her ...
Now, when a lot of money appeared, it was time to purchase any real estate class "Lux". Since my fights were planned in Las Vegas, I needed to settle exactly here, and I bought a wonderful house on six acres next to Wayne Newton's mansion (Carson Wayne Newton (born in 1942) - American singer and artist, one of The most famous artists in Las Vegas. - Ed.). I spent the time perfectly by arrangement of the house. Everything was from Versace, from toilet paper to blankets and pillows. Huge front doors were made of wood, with crystal handles. Inside there was a gigantic waterfall with sculptures of two lions on both sides of him. There were vaulted ceilings in the house, the water streaming and the water has created a feeling of calm.
I liked to watch movies from karate, so I arranged several different home theaters. My bedroom was equipped with the latest audio equipment. I liked it to listen to audio that sometimes I equipped my cars with audio systems that were more expensive than the car itself. For the lobby at the top I ordered to draw on the square in two thousand square feet of all the greatest boxers. It cost me one hundred thousand dollars.
Going to the backyard, it was possible to think that you were in Italy. Or at least at the Bellagio Hotel. There was a ditch filled with water, as well as a huge swimming pool, surrounded by the statues of great warriors in seven feet height, such as Alexander Macedonian, Hannibal, Chingiz Khan, Jean-Jacques Daffesal. Just go and buy giant statues of Hannibal is impossible, so I called the guy who at one time did sculptures of Lviv for the MGM Grand complex. He enjoyed photographs that I gave him, and a crane was ordered to install the statues. The courtyard was surrounded by exotic trees worth $ 30,000 each. And the care of them was required almost 200,000 dollars a year.
Of course, I had to also have a mansion and on the east coast, so I bought a big house in the state of Connecticut with an area of over fifty thousand square feet, with thirteen kitchens and nineteen bedrooms. My goal was to simultaneously in every bedroom it was in a girl. It was a ranch of thirty acres of forest with indoor and outdoor pools, a lighthouse, a squash court, as well as a real nightclub, which I called "Technical Knockout".
I felt in this house, like a "face with a scar" ("face with a scar" - the nickname of the famous American gangster Al Capone. - Approx. Ed). One of my master bedroom occupied five thousand square feet. I had a dressing room of such sizes and with so much beautiful clothes, shoes and perfumes, which could be solved that you were in the real store of Versace. When Monica lived there, she had its own wardrobe area of more than a thousand square feet. The bedroom was a huge balcony that hung over the first floor of the house. I could reach the bedroom or on a double screw marble staircase, or on a glass elevator. It was a wonderful house, but it was possible to count on the fingers, how many times I was there for those six years that I owned them.
In addition, I had a house in Ohio. Then I purchased the fourth house - for Monica, as well as a good place on the game in the Golf Congress Country Club in Maryland, on which Tiger Woods often played. But I spent money not only for real estate. I fell in every way my car obsession. When I was in prison, I had six cars. Now I again began to collect cars "Viper", "Ferrari", "Lamborgini", Rostina "Spider". We arranged racing on them up and down the street at my house in Las Vegas.
I supplied gorgeous cars of all my guys. Somehow, and Porories and John Horny walking in Las Vegas along the Rolls-Royce car dealership, glancing at the shop window. Sellers inside were not a very high opinion about three black guys in sneakers and jeans, which through the glass was considered expensive cars. When we went, they did not recognize me and sent some small employees to us.
- Here is the "Rolls" - how much do you have such? I asked the guy.
- Do you want to try? - he asked.
"No, I just take all the cars that you have in stock," I replied.
After I left, this baby, I think, appointed the general manager. "