Siohvaughn Wade, Miami Heat star Dwayne Wade's estranged wife, was taken into police custody in Chicago earlier this week for missing a mandatory court hearing, according to online journal Times Newsline. The hearing was in connection with the sparring couple's increasingly nasty divorce.
Cook County judge Maya Nega said the all-star NBA guard's wife "repeatedly neglected" court orders related to the case. Marsha Fisher, the divorce attorney in Chicago representing Siohvaughn Wade, filed an emergency motion to quash the order.
A more recent article in the Chicago Sun-Times indicated that Dwayne Wade's soon-to-be ex was advised by Marsha Fisher not to attend the hearing because the attorney had been in a car accident. She didn't want her client to go to court without her.
After her arrest, Siohvaughn Wade spent just one hour in a holding cell at the Daley Center courthouse building before posting the $10,000 bond required for her release. She returned to the courthouse the next day to file a lawsuit against her husband alleging years of physical and emotional abuse inflicted on her and the couple's two sons.
Her complaint includes specific allegations, including the claim that the 6-foot, 4-inch basketball phenomenon once picked her up and threw her to the ground while she was pregnant. She also claims that Dwayne Wade said the following to their sobbing 8-year-old son: "Didn't I tell you men don't f---ing cry? Man the f--- up."
She also attached a restraining order to the lawsuit.
Illinois family law attorney James Pritikin, counsel for Dwayne Wade, dismissed the allegations but said he had not yet seen the complaint:
"That's not the first time she's made the allegations, and there's nothing to support them."
It's just a matter of "he said, she said" right now, but perhaps more details will surface through the discovery process.
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