Serena Williams step mother is out of love with the Williams family, so much so that she alleges Serena is evicting her from the Florida home she’s living in.
Richard Williams, the 75-year-old father to famed tennis players, Serena and Venus Williams, filed for divorce from Lakeisha Juanita Williams, 35, in June after seven years of marriage.
Now Lakeisha says Serena’s legal team has ordered her out of the Palm Beach house Serena owns with her father- immediately.
Williams is credited for training his daughters Selena (right) and Venus when they were children. The family celebrates Serena’s Wimbledon singles championship in 2012
Richard Williams, pictured with estranged wife Lakeisha. Their divorce has been contentious from it’s June start
TMZ reports that in court documents, Lakeisha claims Serena’s people are ‘requesting she and the child vacate the home and threatened to change the locks.’
The child is Serena’s half brother, 5-year-old Dylan Williams.
Meanwhile Serena just gave birth to a baby girl September 1.
Lakeisha is also asking the court to force the sale of another property they owned together because she needs the money.
She says in the emergency motion, according to TMZ, that Richard has ‘health issues’ and could die, and is concerned his money would be tied up for years while the court decides who gets what portion of his estate.
Richard and Lakeisha’s divorce was contentious from the start.
Lakeisha in June claimed she removed an ‘arsenal of firearms including an AK-47’ from their home after he began acting ‘erratic and hostile’, TMZ reported.
Lakeisha Juanita Williams (left), the wife of Richard Williams (right) claims she removed an ‘arsenal of firearms including an AK-47’ from their home in court documents in June
The 38-year-old claims she is scared Richard might harm her and their five-year-old son Dylan and go ‘scorched Earth’ in what is due to be a bitter divorce battle.
In his petition, the tennis coach accused his wife of being an alcoholic who stole his social security checks and forged his signature to transfer their cars and a house under her name – allegations she disputed in her latest filing.
Richard also claimed she moved out last year and left their now 5-year-old son, Dylan, in his exclusive care.
But Lakeisha says she’s the one raising their son, adding that school teachers would back up her claims.
Richard also alleges she left him for ‘a new person’ who has ‘serious criminal, felony charges pending who could impose a danger to the minor child,’ the document reads.
When reached on her cellphone, Lakeisha said she couldn’t talk and hung up.
But Sandy Becher, her Miami lawyer, called Richard’s petition ‘outrageous.’
‘We categorically deny each and all the allegations he has made in the petition,’ Becher said. ‘When the issues come before the court, they’ll be proven to be patently false.’
Williams also alleges Lakeisha left him for ‘a new person’ who has ‘serious criminal, felony charges pending who could impose a danger to the minor child,’ according to his petition (the couple, pictured left in May 2014, and right, March 2017)
The divorce petition alleges plenty about his relationship with Lakeisha, and includes an unusually graphic litany of complaints against Lakeisha, a nurse’s assistant by trade.
In asking the judge for a parenting plan, court papers allege: ‘The husband is concerned that the wife is addicted to alcohol.’
The petition also accuses Lakeisha of failing to keep a schedule, picking up Dylan after his bed time then returning him to Richard in the middle of the night.
The document adds she allegedly lives with an unsavory character in an atmosphere that’s not conducive to raising a child.
Richard says this wife abandoned the marital home in August 2016 and left Dylan in his care.
Since then, he claims, Lakeisha ripped him off in several ways.
She allegedly stole money from bank accounts and took some of his social security payments, he said.
Lakeisha is also accused of transferring the deed of one of his homes to herself by forging his signature, and then taking out a $152,000-mortgage on it by imitating his writing.
Alexis Ohanian and pregnant Serena at the Costume Institute Benefit at the the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. Serena gave birth to a baby girl September 1
In 2011, Venus and Serena refused to cooperate with the maker of a documentary about their lives when they realized it portrayed Richard as a controlling presence
Richard divorced Oracene Price, Serena and Venus’ mother, in 2002 after a police report with allegations of domestic abuse popped up in Florida, where the entire clan lives.
Oracene suffered three broken ribs but Richard was never charged criminally in connection with alleged crimes.
At first, Oracene watched her daughters play in seats far away from Richard but more recently has been spotted in the same luxury boxes as Richard and Lakeisha.
In 2011, Venus and Serena refused to cooperate with the maker of a documentary about their lives when they realized it portrayed Richard as a controlling presence who had a number of extramarital affairs.