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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The most controversial and odd cast member on the series Jackie Christie. The lady who considers herself a mentor to the women as if there is something major she’s achieved to giver that title. Despite the attacks and digs that the other women make towards her on a regular off camera cast members Malaysia, Draya, Gloria and Laura admit they keep in touch with her and occasionally get together. Jackie’s smack talking might not get her the most likes but it’s done something to keep her on the series for the third season. VH1 reportedly offered her over $100,000 in the third season.

She was born Jackie Lee in 1969 in Seattle Washington. After high school Jackie had done modeling. Her oldest daughter Takari Lee is not the daughter of her current husband Doug. She was born in 1990 and is Jackie’s first child. Jackie did not have a relationship with Takari’s dad but Takari claims she kept in touch with her father growing up. It was Jackie’s mother who passed away in 2012 that took care of Takari while Jackie was on the road with Doug. They eventually had two children together Chantal and Douglas Christie Jr who was home schooled until he was 11.

Takari currently has two sons. She had her first when she was 22 and her mom Jackie allowed her to stay in one of Jackie’s homes that she owned in California.

Jackie and Doug met when her daughter was 3 and he proposed to her in 1996. They married just three days later.

Jackie and her husband former NBA player Doug Christie have been married for 19 years. Each year the couple celebrate their anniversary with another marriage ceremony. Fans got a glimpse over their over zealous ceremonies on the first two seasons of the show. It’s rare to find relationships, especially with professional athletes, last but Jackie says she knows how to take care of her man. During the height of Doug’s career he loved her so much that he even asked Jackie to travel with him. I guess he was not feeling any groupie love.

During Doug’s NBA career rumors circulated that Jackie was extremely protective of her man attending every game. So much so that she wouldn’t let female reporters interview him.

The two of them met through a mutual friend named Stevie P. Stevie went to high school with Doug and told Jackie he would be perfect for her. She was modeling at the time and Doug was really into fashion. In her story Stevie talked about Doug’s reputation in school, how he wore nice cologne and clothes and was smooth with the ladies. He was a basketball star and at the time he was in college. When Doug came back home to Seattle to visit family during the Winter break Stevie called Jackie to meet them at a local Sports Bar. They had their first date at the movies.

It was a match made in heaven and Doug was open to Jackie’s daughter Takari.

She claims the secret to their marriage is their friendship. Jackie and her husband do everything together, shop, watch movies, workout and party. She also believes he’s never cheated on her and swears she’s never been with anyone else during their marriage. Doug is the love of her life. Jackie’s purpose for joining the show was to change people’s perception of basketball wives. She has her own business and success outside of her man.

Jackie and Doug had their own reality series on BET called ‘The Christie’s Committed.’ The reality series documented the couple balancing their personal lives with business endeavors. The show only survived for 6 episodes being cancelled before BET could air the official season finale. The short stint on television encouraged Jackie to become a television producer. She pitched several show ideas to various networks but nothing caught on.

Jackie became a book publisher in 2007. She and Doug co-wrote their first book “No Ordinary Love” detailing their relationship. She had also began writing 4 other books that never published.

In 2011 Jackie was approached by VH1 producers to be on Basketball Wives LA. At the time Jackie claims she never watched the original version with Evelyn and Shaunie. Now in it’s third season Jackie has milked just about every business venture she could. She started her own fashion line, began writing more books and even developed a porn with her husband Doug. TMI!!!!!!!!!!

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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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