NBA player Malik Beasley’s wife, Montana Yao, has filed for divorce after getting married back in March of this year. The decision to end the marriage comes after the 24-year-old athlete was spotted holding hands with Kim Kardashian’s ex-BFF Larsa Pippen, 46. A source told E! News: “Montana filed for a divorce the day she […]
NBA player Malik Beasley’s wife, Montana Yao, has filed for divorce after getting married back in March of this year.
The decision to end the marriage comes after the 24-year-old athlete was spotted holding hands with Kim Kardashian’s ex-BFF Larsa Pippen, 46.
A source told E! News: “Montana filed for a divorce the day she saw the photos.
“Montana never cheated, and it’s not in her character. She’s not dating anybody.
“She’s a family person. She’s focusing on taking care of her son with her parents. They are quarantining together. Her son is her first priority.”
Malik and Montana share 1-year-old son Makai Beasley.
Sources close to Montana told TMZ that she was “blindsided” last month when she saw the pictures of her husband holding hands with another woman.
The 23-year-old model was supposedly waiting for her baby daddy to come home for his birthday over Thanksgiving but was disappointed that he never made it.
At the time, Montana also took to Instagram to post a series of comments that seemingly addressed the situation.
She first wrote: “I’ve always and will forever remain true to who I am and God has never let me down. The truth always comes out one way or another.”
In a second post, she thanked her fans for their support and in a third, she seemingly addressed her husband and wrote: “Wow, I don’t even know this man. This is wild, y’all, I’m seeing it for the first time just like y’all.”
Meanwhile a source close to Larsa told E! News when the photos of her and Malik together, hanging out hand-in-hand at a Miami, Florida mall, first came out that two of them had been messaging for weeks, planning to see each other.
The insider claimed she knew he was married but said the NBA star “played it off that him and Montana were having issues and ending their marriage.”
They continued: “She thought Malik was in the process of ending his marriage and she wasn’t doing anything wrong by hanging out with him.
”Larsa and Malik are still in touch and are planning to see each other again when the news blows over.”
In 1997, the 46-year-old married basketball player Scottie Pippen.
The two filed for divorce in 2016 and had a short reconciliation in 2017 before re-filing the following year.
