Luka Doncic is facing a very different kind of off-court battle this summer, and it’s playing out in Los Angeles County court.
According to a TMZ report citing “sources with direct knowledge,” former fiancée Anamaria Goltes is willing to drop her child custody case if Doncic agrees to pay $50 million and give up some custody rights. The report says Goltes wants 80 percent of the payout for herself, with the remaining 20 percent going to their two children.
Goltes is also proposing a change to the current arrangement that would cut Doncic’s time with their daughters from two days a week to one.
Doncic, 27, has said he plans to keep fighting for his role as a father to Gabriela, who is two, and Olivia, who is months old. “I love my daughters more than anything, and they will always be the most important in my life,'' Doncic recently said in explaining why he won’t play for the Slovenian national team this summer and instead will spend the season with his daughters.
That decision lines up with his plans to host a four-day minicamp in Ljubljana, Slovenia, from August 20 to 24, with Los Angeles Lakers players expected to attend.
Goltes, a model from the couple’s native Slovenia, first made the dispute public earlier this spring when she filed for child support in Los Angeles County court. The next hearing in the case is scheduled for August 14.
Doncic and Goltes began dating in their teenage years.
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