Tyson Accused of Sexual Battery in Chicago Nightclub

Heavyweight boxing champion Mike Tyson was accused by a 25-year-old Indiana woman of sexual battery in a nightclub on Chicago’s South Side over the weekend.

The allegation Tuesday comes about a year after Tyson was freed from prison on a rape conviction. Tyson, on probation, had not been charged as of Tuesday night.

Chicago Police Detective Steve Glynn confirmed a police report was filed against Tyson and the matter is under investigation.

The woman, a beautician from Gary, Ind., said she was attacked Sunday night at The Clique nightclub. A club manager said Tyson was never alone with the woman.

The woman’s attorney, Jerry Lee Peteet, said his client was treated at an unidentified Chicago-area hospital and called police after she was released early Monday.

A security guard who answered the phone at Tyson’s home in Southington, Ohio, said the boxer had no comment.

Radio station WBBM-AM reported that Moody Andrews, a manager at The Clique, said Tyson did not batter the woman.

“She was never alone with Mike,” Andrews said. “She was in an open space with Mike. Mike had two security guards that he didn’t hire--that we hired--to protect and watch over him.”

Andrews declined to elaborate when contacted by The Associated Press.

Peteet said his client called police to complain about Tyson on Monday and then followed up by filing a complaint in the Wentworth police station on Tuesday.

Tyson, who regained his WBC title last month, was convicted in 1992 of raping Desiree Washington and served three years in an Indiana prison. He is on a four-year probationary term.