Taking motion. Tristan Thompson filed a libel lawsuit in opposition to a lady who claimed he fathered her 4-year-old son.
In courtroom paperwork obtained by Us Weekly, the Cleveland Cavaliers energy ahead, 29, calls Kimberly Alexander “a wannabe social media influencer and pornographic mannequin/performer who’s so determined to attain her 15 minutes of fame that she lately fabricated a false declare that [he] is the daddy of her practically 5-year-old son.”
Thompson states that whereas he “didn’t imagine that he was the kid’s father,” he voluntarily went to a “respected, accredited DNA lab” to take a paternity check in January. The lawsuit claims that the outcomes “conclusively decided that Thompson shouldn’t be the daddy of Alexander’s baby.”
Within the paperwork, the NBA star’s legal professional, Marty Singer, alleges, “Alexander has endured in publicly proclaiming that Thompson is her baby’s father and she or he has maliciously accused Thompson of being a deadbeat dad, ‘neglecting’ and failing to take monetary accountability for the kid since start. Such statements are completely false and are defamatory per se.”
Singer then jokes, “To cite Michael Jackson, ‘the child shouldn’t be [his] son.’”
The lawyer additionally claims within the lawsuit that Alexander “refused to simply accept the outcomes” of Thompson’s DNA check and “falsely accused Thompson and others allegedly performing on his behalf, together with Khloé Kardashian, the mom of Thompson’s daughter, of manipulating the outcomes. That assertion can also be a malicious lie.”
Thompson is in search of unspecified damages from Alexander and “calls for trial by jury” within the paperwork.
Alexander beforehand alleged that the athlete used a “Kardashian-associated DNA testing facility,” telling E! Information on Thursday, Might 14, “I really feel as in case you actually don’t have anything to cover then why not simply go to a impartial testing website? And we each know what occurred and precisely what went on between us.”
Thompson is the daddy of son Prince, 3, with ex-girlfriend Jordan Craig and daughter True, 2, with Kardashian, whom he dated from September 2016 to February 2019.
Us Weekly has reached out to Alexander for remark.
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