“Scary Terry” left a trail of wreckage on the basketball court — and in the courtroom.
NBA veteran Terry Rozier faced a bruising paternity suit from his Polish bikini-model baby mama accusing him of being a callous deadbeat dad several years before his arrest Thursday in a sprawling Mafia-linked federal sports betting and gambling probe.
The paternity suit, first reported by the Daily Mail, was filed by Monika Jawdynska in 2019 and contended that the Miami Heat guard — who is in his final fourth year of a $96 million-plus contract with the Charlotte Hornets — should cough up child support for their daughter born that year.
“A millionaire athlete or movie star should not be treated differently than anyone else,” Jawdynska’s filing from Miami-Dade County argued.
“If anything, it only supports his reckless behavior,” she wrote, trying to hold Rozier’s feet to the fire.
Jawdynska, a redhead who regularly posts scantily clad pics hawking her lingerie line on her Instagram, lamented that Rozier showed no interest in his daughter otherwise, either.
“The Father was not present at her birth nor had any desire to be present, he has not seen or visited his daughter (even when he travels to Miami),” her filing stated.
“The Mother attempts to get the Father involved in the baby’s life but he doesn’t even ask for her pictures. The mother sends them unsolicited.”
Rozier, 31, who’s nicknamed “Scary Terry” and earned about $160 million in all over his NBA career, has admitted that a DNA test proved he was the father and contended he voluntarily paid child support.
The legal drama ended when Rozier and Jawdynska reached an undisclosed settlement in September 2020, according to court papers.
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Since then, Jawdynska has posted photos showing Rozier with his daughter, a now-7-year-old who is active in gymnastics.
Rozier was also involved in a 2022 Florida lawsuit over an ill-fated $6,000 sports memorabilia deal, court records show. The outcome of the case wasn’t immediately known.
Rozier has been placed on leave by the NBA after Thursday’s sports gambling indictment, which accused him of tipping off mobsters that he’d leave a 2023 game early with an injury — prompting the wiseguys to plop a $200,000 bet.
[Notigroup Newsroom in collaboration with other media outlets, with information from the following sources]
