Ex-New York Giant star Tiki Barber and his wife of 11 years, Ginny Barber, are divorcing. Ginny Barber is currently eight months pregnant with the couple’s twins. They also have two sons – a six-year-old and a seven-year-old. Multiple sources report that Barber moved out of the family home late last year.

Other media outlets are now reporting that Barber has been involved in an extramarital affair for quite some time with 23-year-old, former NBC intern Traci Lynn Johnson. Barber began working for NBC upon his retirement from the NFL in 2007, as a Today show correspondent and a football analyst.

Johnson has been photographed with Barber several times since 2008. Her Facebook profile included photos of her wearing a #21 jersey, Barber’s number. She apparently told her family that she babysat for the Barber children to explain the relationship. It is believed that Johnson traveled to Senegal with Barber late last year for the filming of a documentary Barber hosted and that she accompanied him to Vancouver for the Olympics earlier this year.

“After 11 years of marriage, Ginny and I have decided to separate,” Barber said in a released statement. “This decision was a painful one, but we are moving forward amicably and will continue to work together to raise our children with the love and dedication they have always known.”

It is unknown whether the couple signed a prenuptial agreement before their marriage. They were college sweethearts at the University of Virginia but did not marry until after Tiki Barber had begun his NFL career. New York is not a community property state. Instead, property is handled by equitable distribution. In the absence of a prenuptial agreement or a settlement agreement, a judge will divide the marital property in a fair and just manner.

We don’t yet know if the divorce will be sought on no-fault grounds or on at-fault grounds. New York allows no-fault divorces only where the parties have lived separately for at least one year and have reached a settlement agreement. At-fault grounds in New York include adultery, cruelty, abandonment for more than a year or imprisonment of one of the parties for more than three years.

Source: New York Post

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