Richard Jefferson’s wedding didn’t exactly go as planned last week.
The NBA star, who was set to wed girlfriend, Kesha Ni’Cole Nichols, a onetime dancer for the Nets, called off the nuptials just hours before it was scheduled to take place.
The lavish $2 million dollar wedding was to happen at Manhattan’s Mandarin Oriental in Columbus Circle. However, Jefferson decided before going into the weekend that he didn’t want to go through with it, so he broke up with Kesha.
She immediately called friends and family to let them know, but Jefferson waited until two hours before the ceremony to call friends and fill them in. In fact, many of his friends had already arrived when they found out the news.
But Jefferson took care of them. He floated them his black Amex card for the evening and told them to enjoy themselves. Kesha also partied at the hotel that night, upgrading her room to a suite with a view of Central Park. She is said to be doing fine and just wants to move on at this point.
You have to feel for the girl, that has to be embarrassing and degrading, but on the other hand, it’s better it happened now than after the ring was on her finger!
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I think she handled it well too. He on the other hand waited until the last minute to let his guests know, so I think he was conflicted about his decision. It was two million dollar mistake, but perhaps that’s what played into the decision, who plans a two million dollar wedding? Just sayin’ that’s pretty overboard and he may have thought she’d expect to live that way and no matter how much you are paid as a athlete the money train does stop at some point.
Way to dodge a bullet, Richard Jefferson! Sure it cost you two million dollars now, but she would have taken you for ten times that in the divorce. And she would have taken your house and kids, too. Get out while you can…