Dwyane Wade’s ex-wife is at it again.
Soon after D-Wade and girlfriend Gabrielle Union announced their engagement, his ex-wife Siohvaughn Wade cranked up the noise about their defunct marriage. In recently filed court documents, Siohvaughn Wade charges the NBA star of being a serial philanderer who used to beat her and infected her with an STD.
Siohvaughn Wade made the shocking claims in a series of court documents as the residue of their tumultuous marriage continue infect both of their lives.
According to Siohvaughn, Wade revealed a different side to her shortly after they wed on May 18, 2002.
“I had known that Dwyane Wade had a temper and could become violent at times,” she claims in the documents obtained by radaronline.com. “ When we moved out of my mother’s home … into our own apartment with our infant son, the violence increased. This, however, was just the surface of the domestic violence Dwayne Wade would inflict upon me.”
“As Dwyane Wade’s income increased,” she claims, “his arrogance and pride increased as well. Dwyane Wade began to call me derogatory names more, throw things at me, hit me, take all my money from me, and even kicked me out of the house causing me not to have a place to live. … As a means of controlling me, and as part of Dwyane Wade’s domestic violence pattern, he would often hit me, lock me in rooms and not allow me out, threaten to take my sons from me and frighten me by telling me he knows judges and that they are on his pay roll and he can take the children from me at any time he wanted. The domestic violence and abuse continued on for several years in our family.”
Wade is countersuing Siohvaughn for defamation in another case and, of course, denies his ex-wife’s claims of spousal abuse.
“I tried to leave Dwyane Wade, but when I did, he made sure I did not have access to my own home and he cut off all my bankcards and denied me access to any money,” Siohvaughn Wade continues. “This exerting of power and control has continued to this day.”
One time, D-Wade “picked up a garbage can made of marble stone and threw it at me. Dwyane Wade picked me up into the air above his head and slammed me down onto a large ottoman with such force that the ottoman broke into pieces when he slammed my body on it and banged my head against a marble bathroom floor.”
“Subsequently,” she claims, “I ended up having to be rushed to the emergency room of Christ Hospital and spent an entire week hospitalized.”
Siohvaughn Wade also claims in the documents that she discovered Dwyane was cheating on her, and when she got tested for STDs, she says shefound out that he had given her one. Shortly after, on May 27, 2008, Dwyane filed for divorce.
“The marriage has ended but Dwyane Wade’s abuse has not ceased,” Siohvaughn claims in the documents, “and through the court system he continues to use his money and influence to exert power and control over me …”
She also claims that Dwyane gave her attorney hundreds of thousands of dollars to accept a settlement that she did not approve.
She was awarded their former family home in Illinois, but she was ordered to refinance the mortgage on the property. She has since failed to do so and has fallen behind on payments because, as she claims, she has been denied by several banks for the refinancing.
Dwyane tried to have Siohvaughn found in contempt for letting the home fall risk to foreclosure , but Siohvaughn said she simply could not afford it. Adding to her financial troubles, she claims, various companies with which Dwyane has endorsements have failed to deposit his earnings into a court-ordered mutual account, instead routing the money straight to the NBA star in what she denounced as a “conspiracy.”
The court sided with Siohvaughn on this case, denying Dywane’s motion to find her in contempt.
The warring factions are scheduled to meet later in February to discuss selling the home or refinancing.
