Desiree Washington (born 1973), a native of
Coventry, Rhode Island, was an eighteen-year-old
Miss Black America beauty pageant contestant representing her home state of
Rhode Island when she was
raped by boxer
Mike Tyson in an
Indianapolis hotel room on
July 19,
1991.
Tyson was convicted of the crime and served three years of a six-year sentence in prison.
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