Ayesha Howard Claims Anthony Edwards ‘Intentionally’ Hid Assets to ‘Evade’ Child Support Obligations

The NBA star misrepresented his assets in earlier court proceedings "to evade personal jurisdiction and child support obligations," Howard alleges in a newly filed affidavit

NEED TO KNOW

• Ayesha Howard claims that NBA star Anthony Edwards “intentionally” hid California-based assets to avoid child support obligations for their daughter
• Howard alleges in an April 2026 court filing that Edwards misrepresented his financial ties and business presence in the state during earlier court proceedings to “evade” child support
• The NBA star shares a 5-month-old daughter, Aubri’ Summers, with Howards

Ayesha Howard claims that NBA star Anthony Edwards “intentionally" hid some of his assets to avoid paying child support.

Howard alleges that Edwards, 24, “intentionally concealed” California-based financial assets when she previously pursued child support payments from the Minnesota Timberwolves guard in 2024, per an affidavit filed in Superior Court of Los Angeles County on Tuesday, April 7, and obtained by PEOPLE. Page Six was first to report the news.

Howard — who shares a 5-month-old daughter, Aubri' Summers, with the athlete — is seeking a renewal of her original child support order, for which she first petitioned in 2024. She alleges in the newly filed affidavit that Edwards has multiple assets, including a business and bank account, in California, and knowingly hid their existence in court.

Edwards, she claims in the affidavit, “intentionally omitted and concealed long-standing financial California-based assets and financial activities at the onset of these California proceedings in an effort to evade personal jurisdiction and child support obligations.”

According to the affidavit, Howard discovered evidence of Edwards’ previously hidden California assets in August 2025, including a business LLC, business trademarks, a Beverly Hills bank account and more. She included some of the evidence, such as bank statements, in the new filing.

The basketball player’s newly uncovered California assets were “not discoverable at the time of the original motion to quash because [he] deliberately concealed and misrepresented his California connections under oath,” Howard claims in the affidavit. “Both I and the Court relied upon his sworn statements asserting no substantial business presence in California.”

Edwards even “asserted under sworn testimony that he had no personal jurisdictional ties or substantial business connections to the State of California,” the document states. (In his original testimony, the NBA star argued that the California court “lacked personal jurisdiction over him” because he had no personal ties or business connections in the state.)

The new evidence shows that despite his previous testimony of the opposite, Edwards had, in fact, “maintained a business, financial, contractual and economic presence” in the state for about six years, thus meeting “the minimum contact and purposeful availment doctrine for an out-of-state parent and nexus to support obligation in a child support proceeding.”

The evidence “was not considered in the Court’s original ruling because it was intentionally concealed,” Howard claims in the affidavit.

A spokesperson for Edwards did not immediately respond to PEOPLE’s request for comment on Saturday, April 11. PEOPLE has also reached out to Howard and a lawyer for Howard for comment.

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The latest update in Howard’s pursuit of child support from Edwards comes shortly after she shut down rumors that the NBA star paid the entirety of his child support payment upfront.

After X users speculated that the Timberwolves guard paid Howard “18 years of child support” totaling more than $1 million upfront, Howard denied the rumors in an exclusive statement to the Shade Room on April 2.

“There are no court documents, motions or proceedings that have occurred, nor have I been offered or agreed to such terms,” she said.

Edwards is also a father to a daughter named Aislynn, whom he welcomed with his current girlfriend, Shannon, in March 2024.

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