Malik Beasley's Wife Montana Yao Files for Separation 1 Day Before Their 5th Wedding Anniversary

Mar. 15, 2025

Montana Yao (left), Malik Beasley.Photo: Montana Yao/Instagram; David Sherman/NBAE via Getty

Montana Yaohas filed for divorce from her husband, Detroit Pistons guardMalik Beasley.

The internet model, who shares two children with Beasley, cited “irreconcilable differences” as the reason for their split, per the documents.

The former couple met in 2018 and married on March 5, 2020. This is the second time thatYao has filed for divorcefrom Beasley.

In December 2020, Yao filed for divorce amid the couple’s drama withReal Housewives of MiamistarLarsa Pippen. Yao called out her husband after he was spotted cozying up to Pippen, 50.

Montana Yao.Montana Yao/insyagram

When the images were first published in Nov. 2020, Yao saidshe had no idea her husband was out with Pippen. “Wow… I don’t even know this man…“Yao wrote on her Instagram Storieson Dec. 1, 2020. “This is wild y’all I’m seeing it for the first time just like y’all.”

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A couple weeks later, Yao said she was booted from their family’s home amidthe scandal with Pippen. Yaowroteon her Instagram Stories, “We were told to leave our family home 10 days ago and just like you all I’m pretty confused.”

Larsa Pippen (left); Malik Beasley.Vivien Killilea/Getty Images; David Sherman/NBAE via Getty Images

The couple later reconciled. In May 2021,Beasley shared a public apologyto Yao on Instagram, apologizing for putting Yao in that “situation” and said his head wasn’t where “it was supposed to be” when he had a fling with Pippen. “I was looking for more when it was right here that whole time.. I’m telling the world and you that there’s no body like you for me,” he wrote.

“For the record I was the one who ended my last relationship off the fact that there is no one like you,” the NBA player added. Addressing hisapologyon her Instagram Stories at the time, Yao said that she and the couple’s son, Makai, 2, “appreciate Malik’s apology.”

The two also share a daughter born in November 2022.

source: people.com