Abandoned Mike Tyson mansion in Ohio
Mike Tyson’s abandoned Ohio mansion is not only one of the finest examples or early-American pimp but it’s hard to find someone with that taste with enough money to buy a multi-million dollar mansion.
The mansion was purchased by Paul Monea (of the Taebo informericals) and was seized shortly after by feds who are investigating Monea for a money laundering scheme. By then the property was already deserted and he paid only $1.3 million dollars.
As of right now the Monea family owes in excess of $231,000 from 2007 to be collected in 2008.$41,138.75 is the total due for 2007. The taxes apparently have not been paid in about 5-6 years. The house was listed on eBay by either Monea or Mr. Tyson back in 2005 for $3 million. The house is currently appraised at $2.3 million.
The Moneas are unlikely to ever pay their back taxes so it is waiting for the IRS to claim the property and auction it off at some time in the future.
The 60 acre property is located in a remote area of Ohio in Southington. It features a 10,000 square foot house with five bedrooms, an indoor pool and overdone bathrooms. It’s well appointed with white tiger stripe carpet, gold plating and boasts a large facility for lions that Tyson used to keep as pets. He once bragged he’d spar with them to keep in shape.
Here is the address in case you are curious:
3737 State Route 534, Southington, Ohio
Layout
The front gates
From the road
The Driveway
Exterior
Another view
Front Door
Entry
Staircase from above
Living Room
Big screen TV
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Another View
View from above
White tiger stripe carpeting is hard to find
Entertainment Room
Dining Room
Remote controls
Light Controls
Pool room
The Pool
Ice Cream Sundae Bar
Couches
More of the pool room
The pool is getting worse with time
Jacuzzi tub
Basketball Court
Lion Cages
Barbecue
Another stairway
Bedroom
The bed
Kitchen
More of the Kitchen
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this is bull****. how can the inside be so nice if the exterior is so worn out? how do we know they are pictures of the same house?!
unbelievably tasteless.
Hell if it is empty they should let mike tyson live in it for old times sake! He is probably homeless. Poor guy.
That’s crazy! Who owns this place? It’s kind of disturbing that it is simply abandoned like that.
Goddamn ugly place! I’ll take it off the Monea’s hands for 50K ’cause I’d have to spend at least 500K to get it up to a liveable standard! Must admit though, it’d be kinda nice watching the snow fall whilst sitting in a warm Jacuzi!
Pretty awesome, except for the fat disgusting thing by the lion cages.
Very tasteless, I would sew the architect who designed it. A lot of space (and money) does not mean it is a place to have a decent life. Ugly place!
Before you go calling people on their design tastes, Lunarts, perhaps you should focus on your ability to spell. I doubt you would even have the brain capacity to sue someone- you are too busy trashing someone that planned a house around what some famous rich person wanted. If some guy told you to put purple carpet around his orange pool table and he would pay you several million, would you turn it down? Regardless of what you think the place looks like guys, half of you would give up your mobile home sitting on that quarter acre in a heartbeat. Get over yourselves and the useless thought that your opinion matters.
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I bet Ryan’s g/f is a ****ing babe. I mean, really – pant – pant. She’s probably so hot, I’d go gay for her.
Other than some of the riff raff that’s posted here, it’s an interesting location and I wouldn’t be surprised to see such an extravagant place in such a sad condition. Exceptional find. Whoever took these should post them to the Urban Exploration Resource. http://www.uer.ca
I absolutely love exploring abandoned places, great post!
that place is the most puke-inducingly awesome house evar (and i’ve been to graceland)! think he was raising white tigers for more carpeting? i wonder if mike had a sweet 80’s robot waiter like rocky balboa when he got rich in rocky 3. damn that was a sweet robot. rock should’ve brought it into the ring with him against clubber lang.
on another note, will this be one of the houses the government buys up under mccain’s plan? if so, vote obama.
i would take it for $600 a month rent including utilities, i mean, it is in the hellhole that is new jersey.. and only a well seasoned junkie could love that interior…
The exterior isn’t worn, just overgrown.
Just think how far you would have to walk to get anything. And all those stairs you would have to climb. Personally too much empty space makes me feel uncomfortable but I wouldn’t mind that pool room.
This house is incredibly tacky. Even if it was not dilapidated, the house is one of the most tasteless abode’s that I have ever seen. It truly shows what a **** Mike Tyson really is.
bleh…talk about gaudy 80s interior design. Reminds me of visiting my aunt back in the early 90s..
Wow, this house big, but only a half-step up from a double-wide prefab. Look at the kitchen, really cheezey. Could be Mikey didn’t know better and his peeps were doing the “spend a dollar for Mikey, and one dollar for me” trick.
How come there are still green plants in the house ?? Nice flowers by the jacuzzi ? I would have said they were fake except that one of the trees by the pool looks like it lost a bunch of leaves. hmmmm. Why not drain the pool? 2+2 does not equal 4 here ….
In short, the house big, but like someone said before, it would take $500k to bring it up to standard.
DUDE i totally saw this place!!!!!! i have a picture in my room of the front gate-y thing! hahaha.
thats ballen needs a tlc thing goin on like the gold gotta go and the tiger carpeting i seen alot more pictures on another site bye the way the guy said tyson broke lol ok u see his new house bigger than this in vegas and he didnt own this house at the tiome it was abanded it wraped up in court the guy that owns taboe videos forgot his name he has other companys what happened i dont no why undercover agents were gonna buy the house from him they told him cash only they said it was drug money the guy was like i dont care well anyways some bs the feds did but thats why
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Damn yo, I would have to find a way into that house, bring two generators, and have the most epic house party ever. Noise wouldn’t even be an issue! Flawless place, wish i was still in high school and living in that town cuz that would be a rap.
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All that freaking money… I would shoot the designer. It looks bloody disgusting inside.
Money doesn’t buy style I guess.
Two words – Rave party
I can’t believe there isn’t any security alarms of any kind.
So those must be fake plants in the swimming pool area. Very realistic.
The pic of the chairs in the swimming pool is so kewl Iwish I could have that house!!!!!!!!!!!
if somebody went inside the fence with a weedeater, im sure they would find those lions and tigers he kept for pets!! My question is, how were these pictures obtained? Did the photographer just walk in, or were they giving permission? surely the place isnt THAT easy to get into are it would be so vandalized a person couldnt even recognize it. Its a shame that the town doesnt buy it and turn it into something useful like a YMCA. Lord knows there is plenty of space for children….hopefully the tacky carpet wouldnt give them nightmares!!ha ha
More than likely they just walked in. I would love for them to restore everything back to how it was originally, and see it turned into something like Stan Hywett Hall. For everyone who is interested in going threw this house and looking at it it would probably make the town a ton of money. Even though honestly if they wouldn’t have ran him out of town they probably would be in better shape. How does everyone think they got their firestation. When the guard shack burned down Tyson had the firestation built so that if something else ever were to catch on fire they could get there before it was nothing. As far as I am concerned he helped the town out a lot and the bull crap of not letting him keep a couple of animals IN A CAGE really screwed them over.
This house wasn’t built by Tyson! It was from about 1980, the former county commissioner embezzled a ton of money to have it built and when the county found out they repo-ed it, so the tacky style kind of reflects the early 80’s. The guardhouse was originally a beauty salon built for his wife, the mom of one of my former classmates ( I’m originally from southington). He actually left the place because the county wouldn’t change the laws forbidding exotic pets, so the cages were never occupied.
Doesn’t look like it’s been empty more than maybe 6 months at the most. The green plant life isn’t quite dead so somebody’s doing some watering. Probably just a security guard. You can tell the bank emptied everything of real value. Anybody know WHERE in Ohio this is?
looks like hooror house – shame amercia for that ****ty hero!
green flower ?
water on swimmingpool ?
.. a mo?na to kupi?..?
mozna to kupic..? mi sie bardzo podoba
a gdzie to dokladnie jest..? macie jakis adres..?
Um, it’s not in NJ, it’s in Ohio. Morons.
that house is the best house iv ever seen it is one of a kind and i would buy it in a heart beat all these people talking crap they dont under stand that mike built this house and how many of the people talking crap still live with there parents? i think its a great house and mike should build me one when im rich !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
House is in Southington Ohio. Look it up on google maps. Follow 534 north from the center of town and you can see the satellite photos. Look for the BB court.
Hey I’m the photographer who took some of these pictures. This place is very tacky. Its been abandoned for a while. The “more pictures” link above goes right to my flickr account. email bpdphotography@yahoo.com if you want to know anything else about the mansion.
That is crazy. We just moved up to the area and happened to drive by it one day and we figured it was someone else named Mike Tyson. That is just insane!
The styling isn’t all that bad in the majority of the house. Granted, the snow tiger carpet is gaudy as is the red carpet and gold-mirror finish of the entertainment and dining rooms. This house reflects mid-90’s “player/pimp” style and it could’ve been worse in my estimation. I like the stone exterior and the use of natural unstained wood and brick in the interior. Very castle-like and tasteful in most aspects. Wouldn’t take much to rip out the gaudiness and make it more contemporary.
The plants throughout the house are all artificial. The fact that leaves have fallen off some of them probably reflects the presence of high temps in the summer that weakens the adhesive used to keep the leaves on the stems. Also note the frozen pool water indicating lack of heat in the winter and evidence of algae growing in the water; the site is not maintained by anyone.
Also: the ubiquitous vandal just had to throw the furniture in the pool. That is a relatively recent “addition”.
the place needs a serious overhaul–the interior is like really bad 70`s–i like the idea of an indoor swimming pool—that entry hall really sucks–those railings are really ghetto–i heard that his ex wife actress Robin Givens and her overbearing Mom helped design the place—-
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Of course everyone’s tastes are different & as pointed out, this is a property designed a couple of decades ago, so fashions are very different now.
None the less, its an impressive property. Beautiful, private location, interesting features, unusual decor. Mike has never been a conventional kind of guy, so no reason to suppose his home would be I guess.
The one thing that I did find suprising however is the bedrooms.. is the master bedroom shown in the photos? I would have imagined something very grand, lavish, sumptious, exotic … a massive over sized bed, ornate decor etc… very disappointing…
Thanks for sharing these very cool photos by the way,.. very enjoyable
Anyone know where Mike lives now?
Thanks again!
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Gosh, see what taxes do to people. TAXES are killing this nation
What some of you fail to realize is that this house was built around the late 70’s early 80’s and for those times that was the style. Once Mike Tyson got a holdof it he was boxing’s wonder boy and loaded! The crazy zebra carpeting and light fixtures were most likely considered the illest *literally* style of the time, I figure mid to late 80’s when he was at his top. So the carpets, bathrooms and design is your typical 80’s pimp styling home. Sure its outdated but it’s kind of cool at the same time, reminds me of ‘Scarface’. I love the jacuzzi tub in the master bthrm with the bay windows around and the mirror ceilings. There’s an urban exploration site that has posted more pics of the house. I think it’s pretty awesome regardless and so much could be done with it now and with over 60 acres, the parties you could throw and no one to complain…lol…CLASSIC!
I live in southington. the reason mike bought the house wich was built in 1982 was because don king had, and still has a training camp down the road in orwell . he bought the house when he was at the top of his game. he did stay there but not as much as he did at his other houses. and yes there is still a security system, and no you cant just walk up to the house . and if you did even though there is no police department in southington, there is a state highway patrol beric down the road. also the pictures of the exterier dont do it any justice compared to seeing it in person. by the way he did have his tiger’s there for a little wile before the county made him remove them mostly due to southington parents complaing because there is a school rite down the road.
Chris, thank you for extra information and nearly-insider’s perspective. Would be it accurate to say that whatever fine school system decided to graduate you didn’t have an open door policy with Harvard?
any ideas of how to get in? how did you do it?
you said there is a security system but is it still functioning?
im super interested in checking this place out.
Tacky on so many levels esp. the carpeting.
Just drove by today & it still looks like ****!!!
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Kinda spooky
isnt 50 Cent living there now
he aint poor i bet he has it good not great not rich just good cause he asked Freddie Roach for a job so he has money just isnt loaded anymore
i cant understand how they could have walked in and took pics. before 50 cent bought Tyson’s house in Farmington, CT the house was empty for a lil while and there was gaurds there all the time. Even if you hopped the fence i highly doubt that you could get inside. Its a shame that the Ohio mansion is in poor shape, i would love to explore it but i live in CT.
For those thinking this is photo shopped or is not the same house on the inside as it is on the outside……it is….you think the outside looks bad in these photos you should see it now….i pass it at work regularly and you would think it was a family of scum bums living there.
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WELL GUESS WHAT NO MATTER HOW BAD OF CONDIDTION IT MAY BE…YOU STILL CAN’T AFFORD IT!!!!!
This house is in Southington ,OH. I grew up 2 miles down the road,it has been empty for years, not months.The grass has not been mowed for at least 5 years.I am suprised that the place has not been vandalized more.
hey im the neighbor to this joint and listen what is the big deal about it. it is not right to break in without absolute permission and who ever took these pics DID NOT HAVE PERMISSION!!!! also 98% of the people that tried to break in we caught. just about every week someone tries to get in and we still get them. AND IF YOU REALLY WANT TO GO TO JAIL OR PRISION BREAK IN AND WE WILL GET YOU.
PLAYA HATIN, broke azz folks who have nothing, will never have anything…let the man be! He paid his dues…he worked hard at his profession. Why don’t you get a life and worry about your OWN [mobile] homes?
Honey you really need a non-ear-eating waste of talent for a role model.
Is that a Labatt Blue in the on the countertop in the last kitchen picture? Mike Tyson likes/drinks Canadian beer. Cool
I just drove past this place last week, relatives grew up 2 minutes from the house.. it looks like hell from outside!!! but the gate is still neat to see in the middle of ohio
i live in southington pass by fifty million times a day and almost every time there are people stoppin to see even with it lookin shabby it is still cool having in town just very disturbing with all the curiousity of out of town explorers that not only tresspass but vandalize maybe they could cut the lawn weed wack etc…
i live in garretsville OH a town very close to southington and one night me and some buddys went in their just to see what it was like. it was nice still just needs some work.