NBA star Anthony Edwards’ legal battle with ex Ayesha Howard is still ongoing, and Edwards says she is refusing to move forward until he coughs up $500,000 and delivers a public apology.
In court documents filed on August 6 in Los Angeles Superior Court, Edwards says Howard, 38, has not completed the paperwork granting her sole legal and physical custody of their daughter, per US Weekly.
She claims that her legal team sent him an agreement that added a condition that would prevent her from disparaging the basketball player publicly and that she was forbidden from posting pictures of their daughter, but she did not agree to the terms, and the condition was removed.
But Edwards says that still wasn’t enough.
His ex reportedly wants him to post “on all of his official social media platforms, publicly retracting all false and defamatory or misleading statements made about her during” the court battle and “affirming her integrity and her role as a mother of their daughter,” as well as demanding an “exorbitant” $500,000 in damages.
She will not sign any paperwork until this is done.
“I want to make it clear that my request for compensation was never tied to agreeing to any custody orders. I asked for compensation due to the substantial financial and reputational damages I’ve endured during this prolonged litigation with Anthony Edwards,” Howards told the outlet.
Their daughter, Aubri, was born in October 2024.
Howard has previously asked the athlete to pay child support, to pay for their daughter’s education, and for him to reimburse her for any “actual costs incurred for her pregnancy, birth, and expenses incurred after the child’s birth,” as well as her legal fees.
Howard also shares a child with Atlanta rapper Lil Baby.