What started as a bad first impression between Meghan and Draya has turned into a year long beef. It alls tarted during filming when Draya was hesitant to get close to the newest cast member of Basketball Wives LA, Mehgan. Draya had succeeded in getting former castmates Brittish Williams and Sundy Carter fired. Michele is the most popular among viewers and she refused to return if either lady was still participating in the new season. To keep her on board producers had to cut ties with her onscreen enemies. Even though Jackie had rubbed Draya the wrong way last season with her claims that her daughter was dating her then fiance Orlando, producers felt that Jackie was also an intricate part of the show. It just couldn’t be all of Draya’s friends. But to keep her happy they didnt inform her that Jackie was returning.

When Draya met Mehgan on episode 1 it seemed a little odd that someone who seemed close to Jackie on social media would deny her relationship with her. Draya gave the former Bad Girls Club star little of her time and that left a nasty taste in Mehgan’s mouth. Since then Mehgan has been feuding with Jackie, which will be revealed later this season. The latest shade thrown by Meghan was her calling Draya and Orlando’s breakup fake in a recent interview.

“It’s all fake,” the latest entrant to the VH1 reality show told Hip Hollywood. “They’re still together. She’s still living in house, driving his car, and it’s a publicity stunt. That’s my opinion. the breakup, the makeup, the re-breakup, the makeup before that and the breakup before that, it’s fake. That’s just my opinion.”

In the same interview, Jackie Christie, the infamous Basketball Wives star, admitted that Scandrick was double dating Michele and her daughter Chantel. Christie also said that she too believes that the entire breakup drama is staged.

“It’s never been made public. That meant the world to me…Was for her and him to admit what really happened. Now, I just wish the best for them. I don’t deal with that situation. I don’t speak about it because I don’t really know. I don’t know what’s going on,” adding that “I would love to counsel them.”

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This is about as close to a precise estimate of how much Basketball Wives LA star Draya Michele is earning from her clothing line Mint Swimwear, modeling, and even child birth. Draya popped onto the scene in February 2011 when she first appeared in . Back in the day video models made over $5,000 per video shoot. That was the minimum for the leading girls but in the 2000s the video budgets were in sharp decline and so was the pay for the models. Most video girls can expect to earn $500-700 per video. Draya’s asking price was $1,200 a day for each video shoot. Her eleventh video was Fabolous’ “Leaving You”

In the beginning of her career as a men’s magazine model Draya earned a small $650 for each shoot until she started getting covers. Michele wanted to build her notoriety so she had no problem taking a smaller fee than other models to get the front page.  Following her appearance on Basketball Wives King Magazine reportedly paid her $8,000 for the cover and story.

Her salary as a main cast member on Basketball Wives LA has doubled since her debut on the show. She was bought on the show in the middle of filming season 1 and offered $40,000 for compensation. Following the show’s initial success VH1 granted the returning cast members raises. Draya was paid $120,000 plus an undisclosed amount for bringing her former friend Brooke Bailey on the series. For season 3 Draya reportedly asked for big money and VH1 had no problem granting it paying her $170,000 while her friend Brooke Bailey was cut from the show for asking for “too much”.

Draya has even gotten major pay for club appearances. She earns nearly $15,000 for hosting parties and events at night clubs and has even asked for a fee for promoting clubs via her twitter. For her 29th birthday party she received offers from several lounges in West Hollywood to  pay her $10,000 to throw her birthday party. But she took the big money route and spent $3,500 to rent out Philipe Chow in West Hollywood with Orlando Scandrick.

Draya has been called all sorts of names for her child neglect allegations. But Draya’s been laughing all the way to the bank with her son Kniko who she apparently gets $40,000 a month in child support from former NBA player Gilbert Arenas. Up until 2011 Arenas had been sending Draya money for their lovechild avoiding the paternity test and public scrutiny since he was already married and had children by Laura Govan. Since the media had gotten word of their relationship she was advised to go to court and get official child support payments. From a man with a $22 million a year contract she took advantage and was awarded some serious monthly payments.

On her own Draya’s net worth is an estimated $400,000.  But her boyfriend Orlando Scandrick is worth over $30 million. She can probably put her money away for the time being or just get pregnant and collect more child support.

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This list could take months to accumulate. Not necessarily because of Draya’s slutty reputation but because there are so many false rumors and not enough evidence to back up her dating history. There was even reports that she had been with comedian Kevin Hart. But that rumor was only circulated after a pic of her at a night club together got out.  But this list can actually be confirmed so the number is odd. Of course we didn’t add Orlando because the two are still together and she might actually settle down this time with him.

1. Chris Brown. This one is no secret as Draya went live on Wendy Williams to explain her relationship with Chris Brown. It was probably one of the most talked about interviews on Wendy’s talk show as she blatantly called Draya a “slut” to her face.  It was a little rough but Draya seemed to be asking for it. She went over the fact that she dated three different ballers in two months.  Draya started dating Chris right after he was accused of beating the sh*t out of pop star Rihanna. But Rihanna’s voice is so annoying, she sings and talks as if she’s whining. How did he deal with it? Anyways she says Chris showed now signs of violent behavior towards her. They dated for nine months and although the headlines on ever y media outlet was attacking Brown she claims he never mentioned the Rihanna incident to her. A year later he began dating Karrueche Tran. It was alleged that Draya and Brown’s on again off again girlfriend had beef because Draya and Chris still kept in touch but apparently that’s the furthest thing from the truth. Karrueche posted a pic of herself wearing one of Draya’s bathing suits form her Mint Swimwear line.
2. Fabolous. This one might catch a few people off guard. But Fab met Draya back in 2009 when she was getting her modeling career off the ground. They met on the set of his video “Money Goes, Honey Stays” video.  Two years later they worked together on another video for “Leaving You”.  She was an initial jump off but there are pictures circulating the two had been on several vacations together. She was dating Fab before she met Chris Brown. Draya even looks like Fab’s type. Look at his baby mother Emily Busante from Love & Hip Hop, Tahiry Jose and Kimbella, Juelz Santana’s baby mother, he slept with her too. It’s that light skinned big ass thing, whether it’s real or not.
3. Gilbert Arenas is more than just an ex to Draya. He has an everlasting connection with her. He fathered her son Kniko. He’s eleven now. Draya was NOT in a relationship with Gilbert. Their relationship was purely sexual. She even met another one of her ex boyfriends through him, Javaris. He played with Gilbert on the Washington Wizards. Today Gilbert pays Draya $40K a month in child support for their son.
4. Kenyan Martin. Martin currently plays for the ailing New York Knicks. The NBA star has had his list of high profiled women including Trina, Lil Kim and even Evelyn Lozado from Basketball Wives. Wow that’s just as ratchet as Draya.  The now 36 year old was prime real estate when he was drafted. He was earning over $16 million a year with the Denver Nuggets. He’s less valuable now with a one year contract with the Knicks that might end soon. He and Draya were dating before he began dating Trina.
5. Javaris Crittenton is a former NBA player currently serving serious time in prison for a number of foul things including a murder of a mother of four. Javaris met Draya through his former teammate Gilber Arenas. But he officially started dating Draya when he was traded to the LA Lakers in 2008. This was at the start of Draya’s modeling career. Javaris at the time was alleged to have joined a street gang during his time with the Lakers. Oh LAWD!
6. Meek Mill. So we go from Ballers to an up and coming rapper.  This was nothing more than rumors. Draya and Meek both denied they were dating until Draya made it clear through a twitter beef.  In 2013 one of Meek Mill’s former Jump offs named Britteny had sent Meek a tweet saying ‘Miss You.’ Well Draya saw the tweet and went off on the alleged jump off. Brittney even called Draya’s son an “orphan” and continued to make diggs at her parenting skills. OH GOD! Draya later deleted the tweets but it was evident that she had been dating Meek.

• French Montana. Okay I want to make this clear this was just a rumor initially. The two were spotted at Club Play during Memorial Day weekend in 2013. She was also clubbing with A$AP Rocky and Rick Ross that night. But the pis of Draya and French were the ones to get circulated. But the rumors quickly grew when they were seen together at Summer Jam that same weekend and also during a Lobster dinner. The pics were all over the place. At the time she was dating rapper Meek Mill. But her relationship with French is nothing more than friendship she claims.
• Deshawn Stevenson. Another NBA player who she was dating right after Kenyon Martin. He’s no longer in the NBA after being dropped by the Atlanta Hawks in 2013. What’s so funny is that he also played for the Washington Wizards at some point in his career. Gilbert Arenas and Javaris also played for the Wizards and both had long relationships with her. So does that mean you just have to get traded to the Wizards and you in there like Mint Swimwear? LOL. But unfortunately all of the NBA players she’s dated ae no longer playing in the league except Kenyon Martin who might be out in 2014 like the rest of them. It seems to be a curse she puts on these poor men.

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Since her ascension from stripper to reality star Draya Michele has rarely spoke about her personal life, besides who she sleeps with, and her son Kniko. The now 11 year old has grown up and almost a teenager. Draya refused to release any pictures of her son or even mention him on her social media pages. Lately she’s been more open responding to the reports of her child neglect allegations. Draya has even posted pics of the young man Kniko on her instagram.

On season 1 of Basketball Wives LA Draya made her arrival late in the season. After VH1 producers didn’t see an interesting story line with a few of the cast members they dropped them and added a younger and more controversial replacement. She had dated several basketball players and her son Kniko’s father is Gilbert Arenas.  So it was pretty perfect.

Although you have heard all about the police report following Draya’s arrest for child neglect and abuse most people don’t know what’s been going on with her growing son Kniko. Well Draya lately has been more candid with her relationship with him and claims she’s become a better parent.

Kniko with Orlando’s twin daughters!

1. Orlando Scandrick treats him like his own son. Although people see Draya as another jump off for Dallas Cowboys player Orlando Scandrick he has a lot of respect for her son. He has twin daughters of his own and has welcomed Draya’s excess baggage and son Kniko into his family. During the off season which started early for Cowboys who lost a chance at the playoffs, he babysits. Orlando takes Kniko shopping for back to school and he’s even helped Draya enroll him in school in Los Angeles while Draya lives with him. Before then Kniko was living in Pennsylvania with Draya’s mom who had custody of him. Orlando’s own mother has met Kniko and already calls him her grandson. So is Draya really a jump off?

2. Gilbert Arenas is the real father of Kniko. Although it was very sketchy early on who was he father of Draya’s neglected son, the reality star admitted Gilbert Arenas was the father in 2011.

3. Kniko is a basketball fan. Being that his father is an NBA legend and his mom stars on a show called Basketball Wives it’s almost inevitable that Kniko would take a liking to the sport. At 11 years old he already has a lot of height on him which would make him a perfect basketball player. Kniko starts middle school in fall of 2014 and Draya and Orlando are already looking for a middle school with a good sports program in the Los Angeles area.

4. Draya still is not listed as his guardian. After the incident in 2011 when Kniko who was 7 called the Philadelphia police at 2am stating he was home alone, a judge ordered Draya’s mother to be granted full custody of her son. The report alleges Kniko called his mom 20 times and she told him she would be home soon. He was left at home for three days straight. I’m pretty sure Draya has plans to get back custody of her son since she seems a little bit more mature now.

5. Last but not least Kniko gets $40,000 a month. In 2012 Arenas’ last reported salary in the NBA was over $20 million. He signed a three year contract with Orlando Magic in 2011 reportedly worth $62 million. But in 2012 Gilbert is currently inactive in the NBA. If he were still under his contract he would have earned nearly $23 million this year. After one year with Orlando his contract was voided. But since his career started in 2001 he has made over $70 million in the NBA which is why the courts awarded Draya $40K in child support. In 2014 he has the option of getting it lowered since he is no longer employed but I highly doubt his bank statements would prove he couldn’t pay it.

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