Shaquille O’Neal had one of the most successful NBA careers spanning 19 years. He won four championships in his career, three with the Lakers and one with Miami Heat. Apart from a successful NBA career, Shaq also has an interesting dating history and family life. Shaq has a big family and fathers six children. He was married once, to Shaunie O’Neal, but the couple has been divorced for more than a decade. Needless to say, they didn’t have an amicable separation.
Shaq has a happy family and has been a good role model for his children over the years. However, his relationship with his wife Shaunie didn’t work out well. But the two are on good terms now and have been perfect co-parents for their children.
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Shaquille O’Neal married Shaunie in 2002 when he used to play for the Lakers. However, their marriage lasted only seven years until 2009. Shaunie filed for divorce in 2007 and it was finalized in two years amid allegations of Shaq having an affair. She once revealed what she did to Shaq’s car after learning about Shaq’s affair.
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Shaunie O’Neal reveals her reaction to Shaquille O’Neal having an affair
Shaunie O’Neal appeared on the popular TV show Basketball Wives. During the show, she revealed how she destroyed Shaq’s car and humiliated him publicly after learning about his affair.
“Our blackberries got switched. I went to my baby’s play at school and I was like “damn, my phone is going off a lot,” Shaunie told Evelyn Lozada on ‘Basketball Wives’. “Just girl, after girl, after girl like ‘baby last night what you did.’ And I went in the arena and I went in that garage, not only did I flatten tires, bust a few windows, I wrote on the hood of his car, ‘I cheat on my wife. I ain’t sh*t’ with a knife.”
“I wrote it on the hood and down the side of the car. He had to drive that sh*t on four flats, with the messages all around it. I drove right on the side of his a** blowing the horn, cause I wanted to people to like see. Beep! Beep! The Whole ride, the whole ride.”
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Shaq has been a big celebrity since his playing days. He helped the Lakers win a three-peat during the early 2000s and became famous worldwide. Even after his retirement, he shares the stage with some of the biggest celebrities in the world. Furthermore, he has dated many celebrities in the past.
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Shaq has previously dated Cindy Crawford, Arnetta Yardbourgh, Nicole Alexander, Laticia Rolle, and Annie Ilonzeh. As you can see, Shaq gets around. However, Shaq has been married just once, to Shaunie, and is currently unmarried.