Boxing star Floyd Mayweather Jr. has primary remained in the headlines in 2026 due to his impending fight vs. another aging legend, Mike Tyson, with that bout reportedly being delayed until fall. But on Friday, Mayweather was in the news for other reasons.
TMZ released two reports about the 49-year-old, with two separate lawsuits involving Mayweather.
Mayweather was reportedly ordered to pay nearly $1 million in back child support after being legally declared the father of a 4-year-old girl. Additionally, in a separate case, TMZ reported that Mayweather is suing a former “close associate” of his for $175 million in alleged fraud, with his money being allegedly rerouted through “fake investments, unauthorized wire transfers and shady business entities.”
Here’s what to know about the two scandals surrounding Mayweather on Friday.
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Floyd Mayweather’s child support lawsuit
On Friday morning, TMZ reported that Mayweather had been declared the legal father of a 4-year-old girl named Price Moorehead in March, and he is now being ordered to pay $933,050 in back support on top of $32,850 per month in child support moving forward.
Per TMZ, courts first got involved in June 2023, when the child’s mother, Paige Moorehead, asked a judge in Nevada to legally declare Mayweather the father of the child, who was born in December 2021. Paige Moorehead said had been in a “long-term intimate relationship with Mayweather, which lasted eight years,” per TMZ, until she claimed he broke up with her when he found out she was pregnant in April 2021. Moorehead was “a dancer at [Mayweather’s] Las Vegas strip club,” according to TMZ.
In the lawsuit, Moorehead claimed that Mayweather “pressured her to get an abortion and ultimately fired her” after working for his club for four years.
Mayweather had been served twice and ordered to take a DNA test, per TMZ, but the judge ultimately issued the default judgment with Mayweather failing to respond, declaring him the child’s father.
Who is Price Moorehead?
Price Moorehead is the 4-year-old girl who was legally declared to be Floyd Mayweather’s daughter as a result of the lawsuit.
She is now officially Mayweather’s fifth child.
Floyd Mayweather $175 million scam
TMZ also reported on Friday that another lawsuit showed that Mayweather made legal claims about a former “close associate” of his, Jona Rechnitz, alleging that he “ran a years-long scheme that allegedly drained [Mayweather’s] bank accounts, hijacked real estate deals, pawned off his jewelry and even made his private jet disappear.”
The fraud lawsuit, which was for a reported $175 million, said that Rechnitz “spent years” gaining Mayweather’s trust, eventually becoming his “money manager, real estate guy and banking middleman.” But Mayweather now claims that was all a “set up,” accusing Rechnitz, Ayal Frist, Frist Apex Ventures and attorney Alexander Seligson of defrauding him of millions of dollars through fake investments, unauthorized wire transfers and other “shady business entities.”
One of the claims from Mayweather, per TMZ, was that around $100 million in jewelry was given to Miami jewelers for about $13 million in return. The lawsuit also reportedly included alleged text messages where a jeweler “threatened to start liquidating Floyd’s pieces if payments weren’t made,” per TMZ, and Rechnitz allegedly replied with “Agreed.”
Another claim from Mayweather was that after he wired $7.5 million into an investment deal, the investment “never happened and the money disappeared.” Additionally, according to TMZ, Mayweather alleged that another $15 million that “tied to a realty settlement” had been transferred out without his permission, and that he unknowingly signed off on paperwork that transferred his Gulfstream jet to an anonymous buyer without knowing where the money went.
According to TMZ, Mayweather is suing for “at least” $175 million, punitive damages and a full accounting of where all the money allegedly disappeared.
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