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Remember Allison Mathis? She’s the mother of Chris Bosh’s oldest daughter, Trinity, and to say her relationship with Bosh has been all unicorns and rainbows would be highly inaccurate. Over the last few years, Mathis has accused Bosh of planning a baby with her and helping her undergo fertility treatment. She even posted a video showing how happy he was when she got pregnant. She then says he ran off with a new woman and left her broke and on welfare. The two went through a very nasty, yet public, legal battle over money, child custody and more. Good enough for TV? Possibly, but Chris Bosh says it isn’t happening.
Allison Mathis was supposed to appear on the third season of Basketball Wives LA in 2011. However, her ex completely shut that down. Chris Bosh took Allison Mathis and the Basketball Wives production company to court stating that Allison spilling his tea on-air would infringe upon his trademark and publicity rights. Mathis, who was struggling and living on welfare around that time, would have made $250,000 from Basketball Wives. She filed a countersuit, accusing the Baller of ruining her deal and lying to producers about her signing a confidentiality agreement. Upon the season’s premiere, Allison was scrapped from the show and her scenes were left on the cutting room floor. Allison Mathis asked the judge to demand Bosh pay her the $250,000 she would have made in the deal.
Since 2011, Bosh’s case against Basketball Wives and Allison was dismissed, however Allison’s case was still pending — until now.
The two are still battling it out in court and now, Bosh is asking for the raw unused footage of Allison in Basketball Wives to be turned over to him. Bosh has issued a subpoena to Basketball Wives producers, demanding “a copy of all raw footage from the Basketball Wives series that includes images of Allison Mathis.” If they refuse to do so, they could be held in contempt of court and have sanctions imposed on them for not handing over the videos.
BBWLA producers are asking for the judge to decide in their favor and shut down Bosh’s order to turn over the footage because it’s simply not worth the time. “Here, footage of plaintiff and non-parties eating, drinking and attending social events is plainly irrelevant. Second, even if plaintiff was found to be making comments on the raw footage related to defendant, defendant has already deposed plaintiff and obtained her admissions regarding such statements. Finally, there is no compelling interest in compelling a non-party to produce such privileged material.”
