Tristan Thompson must pay back Maralee Nichols’ child support
Tristan Thompson with a bet from Maralee Nichols.
Thanks to Maralee Nichols/Instagram; George Pimentel/Getty ImagesTristan Thompson must pay Maralee Nichols to get child support back after allegedly missing several payments.
A Los Angeles Superior Court judge ordered Thompson, 33, to pay Nichols, 32, $57,916, according to court documents obtained by The sun. The court alleges that Thompson missed several payments between September 2023 and January 2024.
Neither Thompson nor Nichols have publicly discussed the legal development or revealed the status of the NBA star’s child support payments.
The pair share son Theo, now 2, who was born in December 2021. Days before Nichols gave birth, news broke that Thompson had fathered her then-unborn baby when she sued him for child support. Thompson had initially denied her claims before a paternity test proved otherwise.
Tristan Thompson’s life in the spotlight has been filled with controversies – from fraud scandals and paternity claims to high-profile divorces. Thompson joined the NBA in 2011, but it wasn’t until he started seeing Khloé Kardashian in August 2016 that his personal life became so public. Thompson’s past relationship with Jordan Craig turned heated […]
Thompson was dating Khloe Kardashian at the time and they had recently done an embryo transfer with a surrogate mother to conceive their second child together. They welcomed son Tatum in July 2022. (Thompson and Kardashian, 39, also share daughter True, 6. In addition, Thompson shares son Prince, 7, with ex Jordan Craig.)
Maralee Nichols with son Theo.
Courtesy of Maralee Nichols/InstagramKardashian was unaware of Thompson’s history with Nichols before the fall of 2021, when she broke up with the Cleveland Cavaliers athlete for good.
After Nichols gave birth to Theo, she again turned to Thompson for support. We weekly confirmed in August 2022 that Thompson had paid support to Nichols. His attorney noted in a statement that Thompson “pays and has paid child support retroactively to Ms. Nichols to the date she gave birth to the child.”
This isn’t the first time Thompson has been accused of failing to pay child support. Craig’s sister alleged in October 2023 that Thompson had not paid child support for Prince, claiming he was ignoring his firstborn. Thompson never publicly made the allegations.
While Tristan Thompson’s personal life often raises eyebrows, the NBA player is also a devoted father, brother and son. The athlete’s late mother, Andrea Thompson, reflected on the inspiration behind her eldest son’s work ethic in a 2011 piece for the Toronto Star. “Trevor is a truck driver. I drive a school bus,” Andrea […]
Thompson also has custody of his youngest brother Amari, who suffers from epilepsy, after their mother died in January 2023. Thompson and Amari, 18, briefly moved in full-time with Kardashian, True and Tatum due to construction issues.
Tristan Thompson and Khloe Kardashian.
Jerritt Clark/Getty Images for Klutch Sports Group“Tristan has a house that he is building and renovating. He was able to live there during the renovation, but we had crazy weather for California, like extreme rain. Tristan’s roof collapsed on his house and caused flooding,” the reality TV star explained during the season 3 finale of The Kardashiansairs July 2023. “So Tristan and Amari are now staying at my house until his house is repaired.”
Kardashian continued: “God has a plan and God doesn’t want him to be alone right now. And why should he be? I just think that’s what family does. When things get busy, all you have is your family and Tristan and I are family. We will be family for the rest of our lives.”
Despite co-parenting with Thompson, Kardashian has made it clear that she has no plans to rekindle a romantic relationship with him.