Mike Tyson

Mike Tyson was quite the fan of big cats, and so owned three white tigers, naturally. 

The boxing legend paid $50,000 for each of them, though eventually found keeping the wild animals as pets was not the best idea.

Recalling an incident when someone found their way into his property and into the tiger enclosure, he said: “Somebody jumped over my fence where the tiger was and jumped in their habitat and started playing with the tiger. And the tiger didn’t know the lady so it was a bad accident. She jumped in the property where the tiger was at. They tried to [sue me] until they found out she jumped over the fence and she trespassed the tiger.

“And listen, when I saw what the tiger did to her hand, I had a lot of money back then, so I gave her $250,000 or whatever it was, because she was just messed up.”