Beyoncé’s father Mathew Knowles has allegedly missed two of his $12,000 child support payments to Alexsandra Wright – the mother of his three-year-old son Nixon.
TMZ.com claim to have obtained official California State Records which state that 61-year-old Mathew now owes Alexsandra $24,000 in child support after missing the scheduled payments.
The website also allege that Alexsandra has struggled so much without the money that she has had to pull her son out of school because she can no longer afford to pay for it.
Former Scrubs star Alexsandra gave birth to son Nixon on February 4 2010 after an 18-month extramarital affair with Mathew.
However, after a DNA test confirmed that Mathew was indeed the father, the pair have been embroiled in a bitter legal battle, with Alexsandra even claiming she received an email from Mathew back in 2011 when he threateningly warned her that hurting his family has ‘a price to pay’.
Mathew played a pivotal role in Beyoncé’s career, after quitting his job as a medical-equipment salesman to manage the singer’s early group, Girl’s Tyme, which eventually morphed into Destiny’s Child.
He has had producer credits on many of his daughter’s projects and is the founder of Music World Entertainment, a label that, through Columbia Records, has released albums by Beyoncé, sister Solange Knowles, Sunshine Anderson, and former DC members Kelly Rowland and Michelle Williams.
Beyoncé and Mathew ended their professional relationship in 2011, with the singer later admitting it was her occasionally fractious relationship with her father that caused the split.
She said: ‘It took a while for me and my dad to have an understanding. When I turned 18 and started handling my business more, he went into shock. And we had our issues. I’d say “No” to something, and he’d book it anyway.
‘Then I’d have to do it because I’d look bad [if I didn’t]. We would fight sometimes, and it took about two years, to when I was 20, for him to realise, “Oh, she is an adult now, and if she doesn’t wanna do something, I can’t make her do it.”‘
When Mathew married former model Gena Charmaine Avery in July in Houston, Texas, Beyoncé and her sister Solange were noticeably absent.
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