LAS VEGAS (AP) — Mike Tyson has married for the third time, two weeks after his 4-year-old daughter died in a bizarre treadmill accident.
The owner of the La Bella Wedding Chapel at the Las Vegas Hilton hotel-casino told The Associated Press on Tuesday that the former heavyweight champion and his bride, Lakiha Spicer, exchanged vows Saturday night in a short, private ceremony.
Chapel owner Shawn Absher says the couple wed about 10 p.m. after arriving at the hotel from the county marriage bureau in a chapel-owned limousine.
County marriage records in Las Vegas show the 42-year-old Tyson and 32-year-old Spicer got a marriage license about 30 minutes before their ceremony. She is not the mother of Exodus Tyson, who died in May.
The girl suffocated after she either slipped or put her head in the loop of a cord hanging under a treadmill's console in her Phoenix home.
Exodus lived in a home with her mother and brother that is owned by Sol Xochitl, according to county property records.
Tyson's agent, Harlan Werner, told the AP that Spicer is not Exodus' mother. Spicer is a resident of the Las Vegas suburb of Henderson.
Tyson and his bride asked for a simple ceremony with nothing special, Absher said.
"They just wanted to say the vows and be married," he said. "It was very sincere."
Tyson has been married twice before, first to actress Robin Givens in 1988, then in 1997 to Monica Turner in New York.
His first marriage ended after one year after Givens filed for divorce and said in a nationally televised interview that she was afraid of Tyson. Tyson and Turner's marriage lasted five years.
Tyson and Spicer seemed very in love, Absher said.
"They were very heartwarming, and I think they really do love each other," Absher said. "He seemed happy — and his life's been up and down."
Tyson last boxed competitively in 2005, when he lost to Kevin McBride.
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