In most people’s minds, Miami Heat superstar Dwyane Wade is a “good guy.” However, if you ask his wife, Siohvaughn, who he’s divorcing, he’s anything but.
And it’s not because he filed papers on her; he petitioned for the divorce in May of 2007 in Cook County, Ill. The couple wed in Chicago on May 18, 2002. They were high school sweethearts.
He “abandoned his children, committed adultery, and infected her with an unspecified sexually transmitted disease,” Siohvaughn alleges in legal papers. “She wants the names of ‘all of his sexual partners‘ during their six-year marriage,” according to the Miami Herald.
“These malicious allegations are absolutely false and we look forward to the opportunity to dispute them in court, according to D-Wade’s Chicago based attorney, James Pritikin.
Dwyane Wade turned 27 on Saturday. He and Siohvaughn, 27, have two boys, Zaire, a first-grader who will be 7 next month, and Zion, 1. Siohvaughn moved back to Chicago with the two boys last year.
Dwyane Wade’s Heat salary is $14,410,581, according to published reports. He makes millions more from major endorsements such as Gatorade, Converse and T-Mobile.
The Heat guard has been romantically linked to actress Gabrielle Union, 36, once married to former Jacksonville Jaguar Chris Howard.
According to Siohvaughn’s legal filing:
“Dwyane has dissipated substantial sums of marital property including … buying his mother a $2 million church; placing substantial sums of money in an account with another woman; providing numerous friends and family members with unfettered access to accounts with hundreds of thousands of dollars of marital funds from which they made substantial withdrawals…”
But while he was being a super-sugar daddy to everybody else, she says, he cut her off financially.
Dwyane Wade, named a “father of the Year” in 2007 by the National Father’s Day Committee, has gone “months” without seeing his boys, Siohvaughn says. His “failure to spend time with them … has resulted in the children at times being afraid of him; in fact, Zion … does not recognize or know Dwyane.” She wants sole custody, and support.
She also says she has suffered “grievous physical, emotional and mental injury” from the STD, diagnosed in the fall of ’07. (The infection is not HIV or a “killer thing,” sources say.) Dwyane and his “paramour or paramours” are liable, Siohvaughn alleges.
“It is sad that an obviously angry and bitter woman will go to any lengths to publicly damage Mr. Wade,” attorney Pritikin responded.
“A person’s public persona does not necessarily reflect his behavior in private,” Siohvaughn Chicago attorney Dorene Marcus responds. “Mrs. Wade is prepared to prove everything she alleges. And, medical records don’t lie.”
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