Pro basketball player Ron 'Metta World Peace' Artest accused of refusing to pay his son's tuition…
From NY Post
Jeron Artest, 13, won a coveted spot at the prestigious Poly Prep Country Day School for the 2014-15 school year but World Peace reneged on a promise to pay the $38,355 tuition, according to mom Jennifer Palma’s suit in Manhattan Family Court.
World Peace “dangles our son’s high-school education in front of me and uses his money to control and manipulate me to the detriment of our son,” gripes the baby mama in court papers. She says Jeron, an honors student who shares his dad’s athletic talents, would be “devastated” if he couldn’t enroll at Poly Prep.
Her attorney, Michael Stutman, says World Peace, 34, made $9 million last year. The Knicks bought out his $3.2 million contract in February.
“He can certainly afford to send our son to private school,” Palma, 34, says in the suit, filed April 8.
Palma, who met the 6-foot-7 Queens-born hoopster while they were both at St. John’s, wants the former NBA star to put $140,000 into an escrow account for four years at Poly and another $250,000 for a private college, according to court papers.
