  The Ba\~nados-Teitelboim-Zanelli (BTZ) black hole metric solves the
three-dimensional Einstein's theory with a negative cosmological constant as
well as all the generic higher derivative gravity theories based on the metric;
as such it is a universal solution. Here, we find, in all generic higher
derivative gravity theories, new universal non-Einsteinian solutions obtained
as Kerr-Schild type deformations of the BTZ black hole. Among these, the
deformed non-extremal BTZ black hole loses its event horizon while the deformed
extremal one remains intact as a black hole in any generic gravity theory.
