Anthony Edwards agreed to provide Ayesha Howard full custody of their 5-month-old daughter, Aubri’, amid their contentious paternity battle.
The Minnesota Timberwolves star instructed a Georgia courtroom that he consented to the mother of two receiving momentary sole bodily and authorized custody of the toddler, in accordance with paperwork obtained by Us Weekly on Monday.
Howard said that she has been the only real caregiver of Aubri’ since giving beginning to the infant in October 2024.
Edwards is now asking the courtroom to “set up [his] little one assist obligations.”
Web page Six has reached out to attorneys for each the NBA participant and Howard however didn’t instantly hear again.
Final October, we broke the information that Edwards, 23, had filed a petition for paternity and little one assist in his residence state of Georgia the month prior.
Howard, 38, subsequently took to Instagram to disclose she had quietly welcomed a child lady on Oct. 14.
In February, Web page Six reported that Howard requested for his or her paternity and little one assist case to be heard in California after the “Beginning 5” star filed in Georgia.
Howard claimed in courtroom docs that she and Edwards “frolicked collectively in numerous cities whereas he performed for the Minnesota Timberwolves, and through his low season,” earlier than discovering in January 2024 that she was “pregnant together with his little one.”
She additionally alleged the taking pictures guard was not happy when she revealed the information to him after which blocked her from additional speaking with him.
“Upon informing Anthony of the being pregnant, he blocked me on all communication platforms and made it clear, by textual content messages, that he didn’t wish to be concerned within the lifetime of our little one. His actual phrases had been that our daughter can be a ‘fatherless little one,’” she claimed within the paperwork.
“From that time on, Anthony by no means reached out to me to inquire about my well-being, the well-being of our little one or any of the wants I had throughout my being pregnant. I didn’t obtain any assist — emotional, monetary or in any other case — all through all the period of my being pregnant.”
Howard additionally included screenshots of alleged texts between her and Edwards, through which he urged her to “get da abortion.”
She can be a mother to son Jason, 9, whom she shares with rapper Lil Child.
In the meantime, the Olympic gold medalist has been relationship Shannon Jackson since 2020. The pair share daughter Aislynn, who was born in March 2024.
Edwards is allegedly additionally the daddy of two different youngsters: daughter Aris, 1, with Daja Carlyle and son Amir, 1, with Alexandria Desroches.
He has but to publicly acknowledge his kids exterior of his romance with Jackson.
