On the eve of the biggest decision of his life, LeBron James has been hit with a lawsuit by a man who claims to be his father. In that lawsuit, Leicester Bryce Stovell claims that he met LeBron’s mother, Gloria James, at a bar in Washington, D.C., 25 years ago.
Stovell says that Gloria was 15 at the time and he was 29 when the two engaged in unprotected sex on the night that they met.
Stovell contacted Gloria in 2007 and, through his lawyer, asked LeBron to take a DNA test. The results concluded that Stovell was not LeBron’s father, but he has decided to sue LeBron and his mother because he believes that they tampered with the results.
Stovell, a graduate of Princeton University, has a striking resemblance to LeBron and was once a star basketball player. But even if the DNA results were tampered with and Stovell is actually LeBron’s father, should he receive compensation? Do deadbeat dads have the right to be gold diggers? –a.r.
