When Teyana Taylor went on The Breakfast Club at the end of August and said she sent a $70,000 wire transfer “so fast,” it was clear she was done with the whole thing. She was sick of the filings, leaks, and news stories that came in every time something good happened in her life. She said, “That was the best little coin I’ve ever spent,” and you could tell she really meant it.
The divorce settlement between Iman Shumpert and her husband has been one of those slow-burning celebrity stories that gets pushed to the back of the newsroom and then keeps coming up in strange ways. It all began when Taylor asked for a divorce in 2023, after being married for seven years. The couple, who were both 34, met when they were in their mid-20s. They got married in 2016 and have lived together in several homes in Georgia and other places. They also have two daughters together, Junie, 9, and Rue Rose, 4. Their daughters are still the most important thing in both of their lives, in public anyway.
It’s not the dollar amounts that make this settlement interesting, though it’s hard to ignore them. Taylor is going to get four things worth more than $10 million: a $300,000 Maybach, a $70,000 Mercedes-Benz Sprinter, a tour bus, and a seven-figure sum of money. Shumpert, on the other hand, still owns his South Fulton property in Georgia, which he bought for $427,000 in 2015. He also still owns his home in Decatur and a condo in Miami. He will also give her $8,000 a month in child support and pay for both of their private school tuition.
One of the properties Taylor got is the mansion in Alpharetta, Georgia, that she and her husband bought together in 2020. The house became a character on their reality show “We Got Love.” Taylor was honest on the show about her plans to change the space. She said she wanted it to feel like an extension of herself. “I’ve always loved movies and cartoons,” she said in the first show. She insisted that the house should stand for her. It seems to do so now, fully and legally.
Most people agree that Taylor and Shumpert’s breakup wasn’t because of cheating. Taylor made that clear in public. Instead, sources talked about a more common and maybe even more painful way of falling apart: career imbalances, feelings of not being good enough, and arguments that didn’t always have a clear beginning. It was said that Shumpert had trouble as Taylor’s fame grew. In turn, she tried to deal with the tension by passing up chances. It didn’t work. When the weight isn’t equal, these things don’t happen very often.
After they got divorced in July 2024, there was a whole other set of problems. In a court document, Taylor said that Shumpert leaked information about the settlement to the press, which she said they had never agreed to. The filing says that everything each side got was given by the court and not privately negotiated. That Shumpert didn’t seem to know where the stories were coming from was what she said. In a different case, though, the judge agreed with Shumpert: Taylor’s March Instagram video was found to be against the terms of their divorce agreement, and she was told to pay his legal fees of $70,000. She didn’t think of it as a loss; instead, she saw it as a fee to end a chapter she was ready to leave behind.
It’s still not clear what the other three properties are, along with the Alpharetta home, and if Shumpert still has any real estate ties in New York. He reportedly rented an apartment in Manhattan for $9,200 a month while playing for the Knicks, but his time with the Brooklyn Nets ended in 2021.
Seeing this happen makes you think that both of them are really trying to move on. It’s been said that Taylor is dating actor Aaron Pierre, but neither of them has confirmed it. She’s also kept building her business interests. Under the terms of the settlement, her fitness brand Fade2Fit, a choreography center, and several fashion partnerships are still in her name. The next part of Shumpert’s life is less public, which may be just what he wants.
What stays with you is the feel of the whole thing: two people who built something real, felt it slip, and then spent years figuring it out in courtrooms, filings, and morning radio shows. The deal has been signed. The wire was sent quickly. And somewhere in Alpharetta, there is a house that was built to look like only one person.
