As photos of Tennis star Leander Paes and Kim Sharma surfaced on social media, where the two were spotted enjoying lunch in Goa, the internet is asking about the forgotten relationship of the sportsman with Rhea Pillai.
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Peas, who has won 18 Grand Slam titles and 44 Davis Cup, made many rounds of court in the past decade due to his live-in relationship with Rhea Pillai.
Rhea Pillai was married to Bollywood actor Sanjay Dutt from 1998 to 2008. Meanwhile, Rhea Pillai was in a live-in relationship with Leander Paes in the 200s. For Pillai, the tennis star left Bollywood actor Mahima Chaudhary.
Pillai and Paes first met in 2003 and lived in the US for eight years, during which the couple became parents of a girl, Ayanna. Pillai claims that the two got married in 2005, Paes has never accepted that they were married. Riya Pillai had brought Leander Paes to court on charges of domestic violence. She had also filed a case against Paes’ father.
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She had said that Paes and his father caused her and her eight-year-old daughter mental and economic cruelty.
Riya in the case had alleged that she did not have enough money to bring up their daughter Ayanna and during the legal battle, the court had directed Paes to give Rs 1.5 lakh per month as alimony from 2014. The same year, Leander had filed a case asking for the custody of Ayanna as he claimed that Pillai did not want the child and that she had also told Pace to get pregnant late.
