The Bethesda estate once belonging to heavyweight champ Mike Tyson is on the market for $8.5 million.
Tyson purchased the 5.3-acre compound along with his former wife, Monica Turner, in 1995. Turner, a medical doctor and half-sister of former Maryland Lt. Gov. Michael Steele, married Tyson in 1997 and the couple had two children. They divorced in 2003 and Turner kept the estate.
Turner told The Wall Street Journal, which was the first to report on the property being put on the market, that she is parting with it because her youngest child has graduated from college and the estate has too much space for her alone.
And talk about space: The property includes a 19,000-square-foot home, gym, pool, sports court, piano room, media room, game room and views of Congressional Country Club, according to a release from listing agent Daniel Heider of Heider Real Estate Group, a division of TTR Sotheby’s International Realty. The estate is situated along the course’s sixth hole.
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