Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has a filed a lawsuit against his former fiancee Shantel Jackson, claiming that she had stolen cash from him and used his credit cards without permission to go on shopping sprees.
As TMZ Sports first reported on Friday, the 40-year-old undefeated fighter claims in his civil complaint that Jackson, 33, would make purchases with his money and then have them shipped to a secret location to cover her tracks.
Jackson is currently dating the hip hop artist Nelly, and the two are featured on the E! show The Platinum Life, which follows the exploits of famous musicians’ wives and girlfriends.
Bad blood: Boxing champion Floyd Mayweather has a filed a lawsuit against his former fiancee Shantel Jackson, accusing her of theft. Pictured: Mayweather and Jackson in 2011
The retired boxer’s complaint alleges that Jackson (pictured together) would steal cash from his house and use credit cards to make purchases, which she then would hide from him
According to court documents, during their time together, Jackson would praise Mayweather in public to gain his confidence and dupe him into thinking he could trust her.
‘As a result of that confidence, Mayweather, who’s education ended at eighth grade, did not audit or otherwise inspect either his cash or his credit card statements for theft by Jackson,’ the documents state.
Mayweather only found out that Jackson had been allegedly fleecing him, according to the lawsuit, when a mutual friend told him she had been boasting about her alleged scheme.
Jackson, who is the inventor of the Shoe Gummi insoles designed for high heels, sued Mayweather in 2014, accusing the athlete of beating her during their relationship and later publicly humiliating her on social media by posting on twitter a sonogram of her pregnancy and saying they broke up because she got an abortion.
New flame: Jackson, 33, is currently dating rapper Nelly (pictured left and right this fall). The pair are featured on the E! reality TV show The Platinum Life
News of the lawsuit comes just days after Mayweather’s Beverly Hills mansion was burglarized.
According to police, the crooks got away with luggage, sunglasses and other accessories.
Mayweather retired from boxing for a second time this year after stopping MMA star Conor McGregor to improve his record to 50-0, and boosting his career earnings topping $700million by another $100million in the process.
Mayweather was No 16 on Forbes Magazine’s list of the world’s highest-paid athletes last year, with a personal net worth estimated at $340million.
The father-of-four is currently on a tour of China, where on Thursday he ‘adopted’ a baby giant panda after paying a $15,000 fee – and promptly renamed it ‘TMT Floyd Mayweather.’
The cub will stay at the Chengdu Research Base of Giant Panda Breeding in Sichuan province, but Mayweather will be able to visit it.
Animal lover: Mayweather on Thursday ‘adopted’ a baby giant panda at a research center in China (pictured)