Exclusive: Michael Avenatti accused of embezzling nearly $2 million that NBA player Hassan Whiteside paid ex-girlfriend
Miami Heat center Hassan Whiteside at an Oct. 20 game against the Charlotte Hornets in Miami.
The full story of Avenatti’s alleged embezzlement from Gardner came to light in bank records and in the April 10 indictment of the Los Angeles lawyer by a federal grand jury in Santa Ana. Gardner is one of five clients whose money prosecutors say Avenatti stole. One of the others, Geoffrey Ernest Johnson, was a mentally ill paraplegic on disability who won a $4 million settlement, but received just $124,000 from Avenatti.
Gardner, 27, graduated in 2013 from Marshall University in West Virginia, where Whiteside played basketball in 2009 and 2010. Her Facebook page includes several posts about Whiteside in 2014. Gardner’s settlement with Whiteside — Avenatti never gave her a copy — required the basketball player to pay her $2.75 million in January 2017, then the remaining $250,000 on Nov. 1, 2020, the indictment says.
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