Robin Givens's mother, Ruth Roper, had a relationship with Dave Winfield in the early 1980s, a few years before her daughter became a TV star (and married Mike Tyson). 

After the relationship ended in 1985, she sued Yankees star Dave Winfield, accusing him of giving her herpes!    Born Ruth Newby in Kentucky in 1946, Ruth moved to New York City after her parents divorced, but returned to Lexington as a teenager to visit her father. There she met Reuben Givens, a high school basketball star. Ruth stayed with her father to be closer to Reuben, and they got married on June 6, 1964 -- and Ruth gave birth 5 1/2 months later to Robin. After a second baby, they divorced. Ruth was a single mother of two girls at age 20.    Ruth returned to New York, living in the Bronx and working at Trans World Airlines, then became a travel agent. She married a businessman, Phil Roper, but the marriage was annulled after just a few weeks. Still, she would be known as Ruth Roper from then on.

Her business grew to computer consulting, and she worked hard to keep her two daughters in private school and to pursue high-paying careers. The younger sister, Stephanie, was a professional tennis player, while Robin wanted to be a doctor. Both eventually became actresses. Robin was 22 years old when she landed her breakthrough role as Darlene in Head of the Class in 1986.    On May 31, 1988 -- a few months after Robin married Mike Tyson -- reports surfaced that her mother had reached an out-of-court settlement with Winfield, who is five years younger. She claimed the outfielder had given her "a sexually transmitted disease (believed to be herpes)," according to Peter Heller's Bad Intentions: The Mike Tyson Story.    "The case ended when Roper and Winfield reached an out-of-court settlement, with no admission of guilt by Winfield, who, according to his attorney, categorically denied all of Roper's allegations. No more details are known, the court papers in the case having been sealed." 

Winfield didn't admit to any wrongdoing. He wanted the case to go away as he was getting married to Tonya Faye; they're still together 37 years later!   Tyson brought up the story in his autobiography, Undisputed Truth, claiming that Robin and Ruth were "confidence people, con artists, borderline prostitutes" on the prowl for famous athletes.