Mike Tyson has been accused of trying to inappropriately touch his long-time photographer in the 1980s but he claimed that the two of them had a consensual relationship.

Lori Grinker, now 65, made the accusation in the preface of her new book ‘Mike Tyson,’ a collection of photographs of the former professional boxer’s teenage years.

She wrote about Tyson: “Mike could be very sweet and gentle when he was feeling it, and not very sweet or gentle when he wasn’t.”

The award-winning photographer continued: “He once tried to grab my breast, and when I pushed him away, he got angry and threw my light meter in the snow. He had a somewhat spoiled side and, being the champ, grew accustomed to getting his way.”

Representatives for Tyson, now 56, said to Daily Mail in a statement: “In this day and age it’s unfortunate that Ms. Grinker was not more careful with her words omitting the fact that she was in a s*xual relationship with Mike Tyson when he was a minor with almost a decade age difference.”

But Ginker told Daily Mail that Tyson’s claim is not accurate.

In another email to Daily Mail, a spokesperson for Tyson claimed that the relationship started around 1983.

“He was around 17 and had sexual relationship (sic) with her on & off until about 21. He had s*x with her also when he was champion in Atlantic City.”

Even though the former professional boxer’s spokeswoman initially described him as a ‘minor’ at the time the alleged relationship started, she then explained that “minor is generally legally defined as a person under the age of 18.”

As for Tyson’s 1992 conviction, the photographer said: “I was pretty far removed from it. I was traveling around the world and working on war-related stories and other things.

“I just didn’t know. I didn’t know if it was true or not. Nobody does but the two of them.”

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