Tristan Thompson is fighting against his former lover, Maralee Nichols, who is suing him over paternity. Maralee claims Tristan is the father of her child and should therefore pay for medical and pregnancy-related expenses.
Until now, Tristan alleged he had sex with her for only a couple of days in Texas around the time of his birthday in March. The place where the baby was conceived is important because Tristan wants the lawsuit in Texas while Maralee wants it in California. Maralee’s lawyers believe Tristan (who is the ex of Khloe Kardashian) wants to file in Texas because he would probably pay less in child custody.
According to court docs obtained by Daily Mail, Tristan and Maralee used Snapchat to arrange times and places for sex. Tristan’s username was ‘blkjesus00.’
Maralee claims they met in California and were having sex for five months before she got pregnant. She also alleged that Tristan offered $75,000 to keep her quiet and get an abortion. Her evidence was a series of saved Snapchat messages.
In the new court filing, Tristan said, “We did not have a serious ongoing relationship. We saw each other sporadically between December 2020 and March 13, 2021, and did not have sexual intercourse in California during that time.”
This timeline would prove that Tristan was cheating on Khloe during their relationship, again.
He went on to say, “Petitioner told me that she had been involved with other athletes and understood the limitations of our relationship; to-wit, that we might see each other on a sporadic basis for consensual casual sex only. From December 2020 through March 2021, we saw each other on such a basis. We never had any telephone calls, emails, nor did we exchange text messages. We only communicated via the Snapchat application.”
The player also revealed in the docs that he met Maralee at “someone’s house” in either November or December of last year. He also acknowledged that she came to his house in LA on “maybe two occasions,” but he couldn’t recall having sexual relations with her in California.
“I only recall that Petitioner and I had sexual relations in March of 2021 and at no other time in 2021,” he said. “Petitioner constantly used the term ‘hook up’ to describe our relationship which was the reality. I am certain that if the child is deemed to be my child that the only date of conception was March 13, 2021, because it was my birthday.”
He denied having any sort of genuine bond with Maralee, saying, “Although Petitioner has set forth virtually every date that she contends we had sexual relations, the only date that she cannot remember having sex is on March 13, 2021, my birthday, in Houston, which is the only date that conception could have taken place leading to a delivery on December 1, 2021. As I stated, our relationship was based on sex. We would not have seen each other in Houston if we were not going to have sex.”
Tristan then explained how unromantic their relationship was. “We did not have any dates in the traditional sense at any time; there were no dining at restaurants, going to movies, traveling or any other indicia of a normalized relationship. There was only Snapchats of ‘where’ and ‘what time’ we would hook up and what hotels would be used.’ We only communicated via the Snapchat application. My username on Snapchat has always been ‘blkjesus00.’”
The pair used Snapchat because it automatically deletes each message after it has been read. “If either one of us would do something to try and save the message, the other party would be notified,” he said. “I was never notified that Petitioner saved a message from me. Petitioner never confirmed that I was notified of her retaining messages.”
He alleged that Maralee might have created a fake message exchange using two separate devices, and he explained, “There is no way to authenticate what username is sending the messages from the pictures of the Snapchat messages provided by Nichols from ‘TT.’”
