Tim Duncan’s bitterly messy divorce from his wife of 12 years is now over and more of the sordid details marking the proceedings are now emerging.
According to the San Antonio Express-News, attorneys for Duncan sought intimate details about a local personal trainer throughout the proceedings and hired a private investigator to learn more about him. They even sought a court order barring him from being around the couple’s two young children “at any time or at any place, including permitting him to be in the same house or work establishment, school or social function as the children whether the children are asleep or awake.”
The man, identified in court records as Gilbert R. Urbano Jr., had reportedly been linked to Amy Duncan over the years. Court records also indicate Duncan’s attorneys went as far as trying to get their hands on a recording from a 2010 episode of the Judge Judy Show he appeared on.
Duncan’s lawyers had also subpoenaed Urbano to appear at a hearing scheduled for Friday that has now been canceled. Urbano has long publicly denied comment about his direct relationship with Amy Duncan or the family.
In a highly unusual and secret hearing, State District Judge David A. Canales granted the couple’s divorce on Tuesday during a lunchtime powwow held at the offices of Tim Duncan’s led attorney, Sue Hall.
The judge later told the newspaper she held the proceedings outside the confines of the Bexar County Courthouse at the request of the attorneys and that the couple and their lawyers were all present.
The newspaper added notice of the hearing did not appear anywhere on the public docket and such details as the division of assets and which parent gets custody of the children were not immediately released.
She later also claimed that during their first two years of their marriage another man he befriended while at Wake Forest actually lived under the same roof with them. Attorneys for Tim Duncan countered those allegations by requesting a gag order of all subsequent proceedings and court filings.
Reports also surfaced that Tim Duncan hired a private investigator to begin tailing his wife as far back as a year ago. Throughout the proceedings, Duncan’s attorneys indicated he planned to strictly enforce the terms of the prenuptial agreement the couple signed at the time of their union, which came four years after he was selected as the first pick in the 1997 NBA draft. Just last year, Duncan inked a 3-year, $36 million extension with the team.
Late last month, Spurs teammate Danny Green appeared on an episode of the Power 105.1 Breakfast Club radio show in New York where he was asked about rumors of his star teammate’s sexuality.
“Timmy is Tim,” said Green, adding “I definitely haven’t seen or suspected anything. I’m not going to look at him any differently. He’s going through some stuff and that’s what happens when you go through a divorce. It gets ugly.”
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