Who is Maralee Nichols?

NBA player, Tristan Thompson has a child, Theo, with Maralee Nichols, his 31-year-old personal trainer. The baby was born on December 1 and was supposedly conceived on Tristan’s birthday in March of 2021.

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Thompson shares his first daughter, named True, with his ex-girlfriend Khloe Kardashian and his son named Prince with his another ex-girlfriend, Jordon Craig. 

Maralee has filed a paternity suit against Tristan and is suing him over a number of claims, but after Thompson got a gag order, the records have been sealed. The trainer has asked for child support along with “reimbursement of medical expenses and pregnancy-related costs such as Lamaze classes, a doula and prenatal vitamins”

According to a declaration included in the filing, the Sacramento King’s player has acknowledged being sexually intimate with Maralee Nichols several times after the two attended his birthday party together, which took place at Bel-Air earlier this year. 

Nichols had driven Tristan to the party in his Maserati sportscar. After the birthday celebrations ended, the pair headed to a hotel where, the trainer-to-be mother had supposedly planned “a special birthday surprise.” 

The Ontario-native also said, “After we had sex, Petitioner specifically asked me if she could spend the night because it was my ‘special birthday’ as she called it.”

Having admitted to have spent the night with Nichols, the basketball player claimed that the birthday night was the only night when they got “intimate.” 

However, Nichols’s lawyer have claimed Tristan’s statement to be false based on the trainer’s assertion that their affair began “five months” prior to his birthday.

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Tristan is also alleged to have met with her multiple times during her pregnancy and the two “travelled to California on multiple occasions.”