I'VE BLOWN pounds 350M

MIKE Tyson is pounds 9million in debt after spending more than pounds 350million on high living.

The former world heavyweight boxing champion said: "I've blown almost half a billion dollars in my career, but money don't be a big issue for me. I like a good time more than money. I need the fancy cars to get the fancy women. Shouldn't I enjoy my life?""

Tyson's amazing spending spree - detailed below - is revealed in a report filed at a New York court in his legal battle with promoter Don King. He accuses King of "diverting" more than pounds 30million into his own accounts. The boxer's training expenses cost pounds 4.6million and legal fees and lawsuit settlements about pounds 4.5 million. When Tyson visited Britain in January 2000 he spent pounds 1million on jewellery.

Tyson, 36, fights Britain's world heavyweight champion Lennox Lewis, also 36, next Saturday. They stand to net pounds 12 million each from the fight in Memphis, plus millions as a percentage of pay- per-view takings and a promise of a money-spinning return bout.

Tyson is said to owe two TV companies pounds 9 million.

He told his accountant: "I can't have money and not spend it."

Wallets out, Round SpreeIn 33 months between 1995 and 97 Tyson spent:pounds 5.3mon personal expenses, defined as "walking-around money"" pounds 4.6mon training expenses pounds 1,168,617 on cars/ motorbikes pounds 1m pluson car insurance/ repairs pounds 704,644on new cars as gifts for 15 women and two men pounds 5,000 a month on mobile phone and pager bills. pounds 280,000on his 1,000 pigeons and dozens of cats pounds 64,000 a month on jewellery and clothes pounds 280,000 on a birthday party in 1996 pounds 210,918 on cutting the lawns at his Las Vegas home pounds 231,181 on lawns at his Ohio house and a mere pounds 68,486 at his mansion in Connecticut

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