Shaquille O’Neal has admitted many times over that he was a ‘serial cheater’ and was never faithful to his ex-wife, Shaunie O’Neal. Both Shaunie and Shaq met one another after the latter had signed with the Los Angeles Lakers following his fallout with the Orlando Magic in 1996.
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After dating for half a decade, O’Neal decided to propose to Shaunie and subsequently marry her. They would wed in 2002 but their marriage would last no longer than their prior courtship as they would end up filing for divorce in 2007. The biggest reason as to why they split was because of Shaq and his extramarital ways.
One woman who claimed to have been on-and-off with the 4x NBA champion was Vanessa Lopez. She claimed to have been involved with him for 5 years up until 2010 after Shaq told her that he was in an ‘open marriage’. Their relationship would soon take a dark turn after Lopez sued Shaq for harassment.
Shaquille O’Neal had his s*xual revealed during trial
In 2010, Vanessa Lopex sued Shaquille O’Neal for emotionally harassing her, hiring ‘henchmen’ to threaten her along with his two sisters, and invading her privacy on multiple occasions. These are extremely serious claims and painted the former Laker in a horrible light.
One of the strangest pieces of media to have come out from the trial was Lopez’s explanation of how Shaq would emotionally abuse her through his outrageous s*xual requests.
The transcript of what she said under oath read (the following text is quite s*xual in nature so please do read through it at your own discretion):
“When he would call and want to get together, I was reluctant to see him when I had my period. He would say ‘I don’t care.’ And when we would see each other, he had a fetish that he’d just like to give me oral s*x during my period.”
Shaquille O’Neal would eventually have the lawsuit dropped against him
April 2013 saw Shaquille O’Neal take matters into his own hands and file a restraining order against Vanessa Lopez. Around the same time, Lopez would get dropped by her lawyer, Gloria Allred, as a way of signaling that she felt her client had been lying about certain aspects of the case.
Sure enough, the Florid judge presiding over this case dismissed it a few months later, stating that Lopez had lied several times throughout the lawsuit and had ‘disrespected’ the justice system.
Also read: WATCH: $400 Million Worth Shaquille O’Neal Stole ESPN’s Stephen A Smith’s Glasses Mid-Interview
