Leicester Bryce Stovell: I'm LeBron James' Dad!
Forget rumors of Delonte West nailing his mom this spring. LeBron James is now being sued a dude who claims he slept with Gloria James, oh, say about 25 years ago.
LeBron, whose HUGE decision about where he will play next season coincidentally airs tonight on ESPN, is accused of tampering with evidence, as is Gloria.
Leicester Bryce Stovell, 55, claims in his lawsuit that he is the biological father of James and alleges that the NBA star and his mom covered up this fact.
He says he met Gloria in a D.C. area bar in 1984, had unprotected sex with her the night they met, and later found out she was 15 at the time. He was 29.
Interestingly, the guy isn't your stereotypical deadbeat dad.
This guy says he's LeBron James' dad. See a resemblance?
Rather, he's a Princeton and University of Chicago Law School grad who went on to be a senior legal adviser to the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission.
In any case, Stovell claims Gloria went back to her hometown in Ohio after they hooked up, but returned several months later to inform him that she was pregnant with a boy named LeBron, although she never specifically identified the father.
Stovell claims he reconnected with Gloria by phone in 2007, when he began to think he could be LeBron's dad, partly because they look almost identical. Leicester notes that when he saw LeBron play, he was "struck by our similarity in appearance.
Leicester Bryce Stovell claims during the 2007 call, Gloria James threatened to have him physically harmed and told him, "LeBron's money is for his children."
A few days after the phone call, Leicester claims LeBron James - through his attorney - agreed to take a DNA paternity test. Stovel claims he was given results that showed he was not LeBron's dad ... but suspects Gloria and LeBron are behind a fraud.
Why would he do that?
"Anger at perceived abandonment and conflict arising from his image as a successful fatherless child from the projects," Leicester Bryce Stovell theorizes.
He claims Gloria "fabricated" a story about LeBron's real father for the "one dimensional commercial image-making purpose ... to make [LeBron's] life suggestive of Spike Lee's popular 1998 sports drama film, He Got Game."
Biographical information on James says his biological father, Anthony McClelland, was an ex-con who abandoned Gloria to be a single mom at age 16.
Leicester, who notes that LeBron named his son Bryce, is seeking $4 million from LeBron and Gloria, claiming fraud, defamation and misrepresentation.
Wow. Most of the time said claims involve the millionaire athlete fathering a kid (cough, Tiger Woods), not vice versa. Is there any chance this is true?
James' camp has denounced the suit as a blatant attempt to capitalize on the attention LeBron will receive in the run-up to his announcement tonight.
Do you believe it? More importantly, where will LeBron end up?
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January 4th, 2011 10:26 AM
good thing the statute of limitations on rape in ohio is 20 years...looks like hell be getting off freee of rape arlene
October 14th, 2010 10:24 PM
1. Mr. Leicester Bryce Stovell should be put in jail. The charge is rape. Look at all these preachers, priests, school teachers,doctors, and football players who have being charge with crimes. Rape is a crime.
2. Mr. Leicester Bryce Stovell did not pay anything so he should not collect anything.
3. What a low down dog, to sue your abandon child.
4. The only thing that should be given to him is jail time for being a predator or child rapist.
5. We as women do not feel sorry for his stupid azz. This young man is working for what he has and his father should do the same.
6. He need to read the Bible.
7. He is a low life broke attorney that is bring shame to the American people for working for a government agency that allow him do such thing.
8. My advice to Mr. Leicester Bryce Stovell get a life.
August 30th, 2010 1:44 PM
I personally think that Lebron and his mom should sue him for $4 million for back ordered child support. what an idiot...
July 10th, 2010 4:33 PM
Very, very convienent for him to come forward
now that LeBron James is worth tons of money!!!!
July 10th, 2010 12:06 PM
rayday - you are talking like a nutcase. We are all guessing about things that only Ms. James really knows. Which woman tells a child -Your father is Leicester Bryce Stovell and you must hate him/ or teaches the child to hate him. Then the child who clearly adores his mother, grows up, then turns around and names his own child BRYCE. Remove your own experience from this and think a little more logically.
July 10th, 2010 11:51 AM
This is sad on so many levels. I am sure Mr. Stovell has many reasons for claiming Lebron James as his son. I do not think it is unusual for a man to WONDER if the child of a woman he had an affair with is his - particularly if the woman gave him some indication she had a child by him. On the odd occasion we even see men coming forward in situations such as this. I don’t know if it is true that he cannot be charged with statutory rape as Ms. James was in a bar for 21 year olds at the time…
HOWEVER, I think (if this story is true) that it is HIGHLY UNUSUAL for a Princeton graduated lawyer to risk his reputation by stating –
1.“I am publicly admitting that I had unprotected sex with a 15 year old kid I found in a bar when I was a grown man of 29 and ought to have had more sense and ought to have been looking for a woman my own age and maturity (?).
2.And I am not here seeking to submit my share of the overall expense and heartache which his mother (who hinted to me those
July 9th, 2010 10:19 PM
With this suit, he might get the court to compel a DNA test. The results would confirm or refute the previous test Stovell claims was a deliberate fraud. Interesting that this Princeton grad w/ a respectable law degree and professional background is caught up in classic ghetto mess.
July 9th, 2010 1:27 PM
and thats just nasty he did it with a 15 year old wen he was 29 he should be sent to prison
July 9th, 2010 1:25 PM
now he wants to be his father since he has all that money but wen he was poor he didnt want anything to do with him
July 9th, 2010 2:47 AM
Who is this guys lawyer? His logic makes no sense. He claims that Lebron wants to maintain the one dimensional image of a successful kid from a single parent home...Well duh!!! If he is his father or not the facts remain the same....he is a success story of kid from the projects and a single parent home all you did Mr. Stovell was show up 25 years later and got the nerve to sue your son that you have done absolutely nothing for!! And yes self proclaimed daddy, "He's got game!"