Iman Shumpert is protecting his name.
The former NBA player is asking the court to remove Teyana Taylor’s “cruel treatment” claim in her Nov. 22 divorce filing, according to legal documents obtained by TMZ Thursday.
Shumpert, 33, is requesting that the “cruel treatment” Taylor listed as the reason for their divorce be changed to “irretrievable broken bond.”
He is also arguing that Taylor, 32, did not prove that he ever treated her in any way that made her feel unsafe during their marriage.
A 1965 divorce case from Texas describes “cruel treatment” to an individual as “the willful, persistent infliction of unnecessary suffering, whether in realization or apprehension, whether of mind or body, to such an extent as to render cohabitation dangerous and unendurable.”
In her original divorce filing, the “Gonna Love Me” singer accused her estranged husband of not just treating her cruelly, but of “displaying extreme narcissistic behavior throughout the majority of their…
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