Blast from the Past: The Catfight between Holly Robinson Peete and Robin Givens

HOLLY ROBINSON PEETE


VS

ROBIN GIVENS


I will admit right off the bat, there is not a ton to report right here.

However, since female celebrity catfights are indeed rare, I did want to make a mention of this on this website.

I dug up an old Sports Illustrated article from October 24th 1988 that describes an altercation that took place between Holly Robinson Peete and Robin Givens.

It appears they attended the same college, and Robin once took a verbal swipe at Holly's mother, and Holly "knocked Robin down".

Here is the excerpt from the article:

Another TV actress, Holly Robinson, of 21 Jump Street, attended Sarah Lawrence College with Givens. Delores Robinson, Holly's mother, says, "I'm privy to have known them [Givens and Roper]." According to Delores, Holly once knocked Givens down for calling Delores Robinson a slut and for falsely accusing the two Robinsons of stealing money from her. "I knew them in the old days before there was a Mike Tyson," says Delores. "This whole thing was a setup. Robin married him for the money. We predicted it when she married him, that she would stay with him however long it took to make sure she was in and could get the money. As soon as that point was had, she started to discredit him."

Kimberly Alexander, an Atlanta businesswoman, also attended Sarah Lawrence. Unlike Holly Robinson, Alexander never had a cross word with Givens. "But we weren't friends," says Alexander. "Robin didn't have any friends at Sarah Lawrence. She made her presence known, but she rubbed everybody the wrong way. At our graduation, they called her name and she was booed, loud enough to be noticed. I knew she had enough ambition to get what she wanted, and that's not necessarily a bad thing, but I also knew Robin would do it any way she could. She thinks people are expendable, she uses them."

Read the rest of the SI article from 1988:
HERE

If anyone here as any more information on this, please comment in this thread!

I have sent interview requests to both Holly Robinson Peete and Robin Givens to see if they are willing to speak on the incident.

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