Tiki Barber’s Affairs Cost him Wife and Job
Tiki Barber once received headlines for his on the field heroics, then for his football commentary, but now he’s getting the headlines for a less desired reason.
In Aprill, Barber was seen around town with a former NBC intern. To make Barber’s actions more distasteful, his pregnant wife was spending a week in the hospital at the time.
Barber is now facing a divorce from his wife, according to the New York Post. Tiki and his wife, Ginny, already have two sons, age seven and six, but that hasn’t stopped Barber from moving on to his new girlfriend.
Ginny is apparently outraged at Tiki’s apparent low-balling in their out of court negotiations surrounding financial support.
The divorce was filed in a Manhattan Supreme Court, which in New York is the trial level of the judicial system, and accepted by Tiki’s attorney.
Reports state that Tiki broke it off with his wife of 11 years for the 23-year-old intern, who he met while she was still a student at Mount St. Mary College in upstate New York.
The aftermath of Tiki’s decision was immediate. Barber was benched from his job as a correspondent for NBC Sports after the New York Post first reported on his infidelity.
Apparently Tiki and Ginny had been having problems even before she became pregnant this most recent time.
The 23-year-old that Tiki ran off with, Trace Johnson, was courted by Barber with a shower of gifts, according to another article from the Post.
Even as the relationship between Barber and Johnson was at its very beginning, Johnson was being discouraged. Reportedly while she was an intern at the Today show, her boss got wind of lunches between the two and reportedly told her that since she was only an intern she shouldn’t been seen in public having lunch with Barber.
The only effect of this warning was for the two to make their relationship more secret. As their relationship built, the one between Tiki and Ginny deteriorated to the point that a divorce was filed while Ginny was eight months pregnant.
Barber and Johnson have said very little about their relationship. Most of the information about the two is from sources close to the couple. With the relationship costing Barber his job with NBC, it is not a surprise that he would not want to add more details to a relationship that the public at large seems to disapprove of.
For Tiki to find himself back in the public’s favor, he’s going to have to do a lot of work, and hope that his wife doesn’t take any steps that could cause him to be less employable.
