The on-going saga between Dwyane Wade and his ex-wife Siovaughn Funches is not over yet. It initially appeared that they finally settled things when she agreed to receive a $5 million settlement from Wade and their marital home but she’s back with new court docs. Funches sued her lawyer Brian Hurst last year, claiming his handling of the case screwed her out of a bigger settlement that she was entitled to receive. Funches says she’s entitled to at least $10 million from Wade.
According to court docs obtained by Bossip, Funches said since she supported Wade before he went pro and helped him develop his career in the NBA, she deserves a stake in his endorsements for companies like T-Mobile, Staples and Gatorade, as well as his royalties and other revenue. The docs are a part of her new complaint in her malpractice case against her former lawyer, which she filed last week in Cook County Circuit Court.
Funches says Hurst never showed her Wade’s business contracts, so she had no idea how much he made and how much she could lay claim to. She also says the lawyer pressured her into taking the settlement instead of going to trial and agreed to it without her okay. She says he also included a clause that she couldn’t trash-talk Wade, which she says she would never agree to. Funches said she didn’t agree to the settlement back in 2013.
Funches says Hurst failed to get her key demands met in the case, including making Wade pay her law school tuition, travel expenses for their sons, her lawyer fees, getting their marital home appraised and Wade should’ve paid her alimony because she was an unemployed law student at the time of the divorce.
Wade signed a new two-year $47 million contract with the Chicago Bulls, and last month a judge ruled that Funches could reopen their divorce case.
Wade and Funches were married from 2002 to 2008, and have two sons, Zion and Zaire. Wade has since remarried actress Gabrielle Union.
