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We first saw NeNe Leake’s sidekick Diana in the background on the Real Housewives of Atlanta last season.
During RHOA season 3, Diana’s been a bit more in the forefront. If you recall, when NeNe had her nose job, it was Diana who was there to comfort her when Greg didn’t show up.
A lot of people around town have been wondering why Diana looks so dayum familiar… some are very much aware, while there are others who are totally clueless as to who Diana is.
Well let me refresh your memory…
Diana’s gold-digging is world renown. She’s been a hot topic in legal debates surrounding child support and was somewhat of an icon amongst mistresses & jumpoffs.
You see… Diana aka Diana Gowins was awarded one of the largest child support payments of it’s time after she got pregnant and had twins by her married lover. A successful millionaire attorney who just happened to be married.
Attorney Willie Gary, a high profile attorney who is married to his childhood sweetheart, met Gowins in January 2000 at a Florida event honoring the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. Gary was the keynote speaker and Gowins, who excelled at track, was seeking sponsorship as an Olympic hopeful. The two agreed to meet for business, but ended up having sex.
Gowins, who became pregnant and gave birth to twins who are now around 10 years old, claimed she and Gary dated on and off for four years. However, he denied the pair had a “real” relationship and Gary’s attorneys say the pair only had two rendezvous at a hotel. Gowins has sole custody of the twins and Gary was began paying Gowins $28,000 per month.
Everything was honkey-dorey for a while til Gary suddenly decreased her payments. According to several articles online, he started getting an inkling she wasn’t using this money just for taking care of the twins they had together.
According to the court documents, it turns out Diana wasn’t putting the money into the two kid’s college fund like she promised! She was splurging the money on cruises without the kids, tummy tucks, a Steinway piano, and designer clothes. She also spent thousands on private school tuition and diamonds for her oldest child, a teenage daughter from a previous relationship. Yes, diamonds.
So what happened next was that Willie Gary, along with his lawyers, argued in November of 2005 to Fulton County Superior Court Judge Cynthia Wright that Diana Gowins was misusing the child support to pay for things not directly related to the well being of their children together.
Gary ended up winning the case and his child support payments were reduced to more modest $5000 a month, leaving Diana with presumably only one cruise every two months, instead of weekly. The judge then told Gowins, a former nurse, to go back to work and quit going crazy with her lavish spending but she refused to do so. She responded to the judge that she has a right to be a stay-at-home mom.
Diana Gowins took Willie Gary back to court to contest the reduction in child support payments and her decision yielded her a huge payoff.
In 2007, the Georgia Court of Appeals decided to side with the mother, throwing out the previous ruling by Judge Cynthia Wright. The child support payments were re-raised to $28,000 a month.
“It’s a big decision,” Gowins’ attorney, Randy Kessler, said Tuesday after receiving a copy of the appellate court’s ruling. Kessler said he faxed a letter to Gary on Tuesday afternoon demanding that he pay about $300,000 to Gowins by Friday to get caught up and then resume monthly payments of $28,000, the amount he initially agreed to pay. Although $28,000 a month may sound high, Kessler said, Gary makes more than $13 million a year, so his payments are comparable to a man with an annual salary of $130,000 paying $280 a month for their twins.
“He agreed to it,” Kessler said. “He can afford it. He can’t just change his mind.”
Gary’s Atlanta attorney, Kenny Schatten, said he is considering appealing to the Georgia Supreme Court.
“I just look at this decision [by the appellate court] as a small hurdle,” he said.
The Fulton judge told Gowins, a former nurse, to go to work and watch her lavish spending, but she refused, saying she has a right to be a stay-at-home mom.
CLICK HERE to read the full court of appeals decision.
There you have it. I’m not sure if Willie Gary is still fighting the judgment or if he’s paying but it is what it is.
Diana Gowins is not just NeNe’s sidekick/BFF, her previous drama qualifies her for a spot in RHOA history. I wonder why Bravo has her playing the background when she has so much drama to offer? They must be up to something…
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hell i got to move to atlanta that is gold-digging headquarters USA !!! why did i waste my time with higher education when i could have been a "baby-mamma" LOL!!!!!! now i get why granny used to call ur poom-poom a pocket-book
what a crazy story. real talk though, she need to get her ass back to work in the hospital. considerin how she got pregnant purposely, it should be reduced back to 5,000 dollars a month. 28,000 is too much considerin her past habits with splurging the money. boy i tell u!
Too funny @lexdiamonz
I remember her/this a few years ago. Why can’t these men just love the one their with. THEY ALWAYS end up paying for it in the futcha’. ALWAYS!……well except for Antwan Cook, he got the game on lock. But thats for another threaad, right? LOL
@Kortney….how can you say she got pregnant on "purpose"? No, he had to jizz up in her to get her pregnant. She didn’t/couldn’t do it by herself. Not taking up for her, but they BOTH played a part in this…..and too bad for him, its hittin him in his pocket/household.
Man,.Nothing but drama follows these Real Housewives series.Who is actually a housewife and who are the jumpoffs,one night stands etc. The series is a mess and very damaging for our minds, but I GUESS THATS WHY BRAVO keeps them on the air..She(NENE) is calling Kim a mistress, who is she running around with in the streets?Willie was going around the country giving speeches to kids in school and he fooled around and got caught up.SIGH "CLOSE YOUR LEGS TO MARRIED MEN. Right, NeNe.SMH
I’m glad she appealed BUT she should spend the money WISELY… I remember when she was on Ryan Cameron’s Show. I was juicy! Get your twins’ money… YEP!
SO WHAT IF HE HAS TO PAY HER THAT AMOUNT??? HE IS A MARRIED LAWYER WHO HAD UNPROTECTED SEX OUT OF WEDLOCK! SO HE SHOULD HAVE TO PAY THE ORDERED AMOUNT! THAT IS HER MONEY, HER KIDS…..SO WHY IS SHE WRONG AGAIN*BLANK STARE*??
That’s why I love your site…always have the scoop! I wondered bout her, but never did any research…Thanks girl!
Baby mama is not a reputable career choice. SMH
The children are the ones that suffer in all this madness.
I hope she apologized to Mrs. Willie Gary for causing her unnecessary pain.
Close your legs to married men.
@attorneymom what other job paying $28,000 a month
LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! and until men learn to keep it in their pants i will CONTINUE to laugh at stories like this ….. u can’t take nothing that don’t want to be taken
The monthly amount was reduced.
Besides, Women have the power of sex. Most men can’t resist our sexual powers once we seduce them.
PLEASE get over yourself and all that think like you its no wonder woman like you go from man to man because if sex is all you have to offer no wonder so many of you find yourself alone and sleeping with married men because a single man wont give your gold digging azz the time of day lady please
Wow… and to the person (Queens City Gurl) that said it’s her money..WRONG… it is money to care for her children… not to spend on her and to take vacations and whatnot.Yes a portion of it should be used to provide a roof over their head, and food and clothing, and bills, but the rest is not a "bonus" for her to shop til she drops or to splurge how she sees fit. Then her children end up needing taxpayers dollars to fund their way through school cuz their momma spent their college fund making sure her boobs sat up straight or her tummy was tucked…. *kiss teeth..cha
Now that’s a scoop. I would find her much more interesting to watch than Phaedra. 28k tax free in atl is alot of coin to bring in monthly.
@Attorneymom I can’t believe you had the audacity to say, "I hope she apologized to Mrs. Willie Gary for causing her unnecessary pain." She didn’t take any vows with Willie Gary before God. How do you know she knew he was married when she he started having this affair? The only one that need to apologizing to Mrs Willie Gary is Willie Gary. He is the one that stood before God to ask this woman to be his for wife. And you best to be believe Diana Gowins wasn’t the first time this man has strayed from his marriage, it’s just the first time he was caught. Just like Matthew Knowles, Jessie Jackson, and Willie Norwood, etc.
Now I agree that women shouldn’t go after married men. But, if my husband cheat on me my problem is with him. She could have stripped and got naked, he should have come home to me, because he stood their with me and took a vow before God to be loyal to me and no other woman. I don’t need to talk with her or see her. I know my worth. If you notice most married men never leave their wife, I don’t care how many hood rats come out. And they will keep cheating if the wife allow it. For example, Big Poppa’s wife with Kim Zolciak. Because a man is very selfish. He don’t want another man to have either one of them, even if he don’t want you. I’ll rather be myself like Tina knowles, than to let a man think he can cheat on me. And I have to take care of another child. Because child support will be based of the her income as well. You better ask somebody.
Peace!!
Wowwww, I guess birds of a feather do flock together; Superhead & Tamkea Foster; Lady GaGa and the Devil; Winnie the Pooh & Tigger (that relationship was always suspect <lol>. Be careful of the company you keep because there is this little thing called, guilt by association.
I can’t stand NeNe and it’s obvious that she keeps that drama going strong on all fronts. smh…and these black woman are out in front of the world purporting to represent us – frekkkk..
@A Woman Who Knows Someone need to take out a 5051 on you, because if Lady Gaga, Winnie the Pooh, Tigger, and the Devil represent you, you need to be on the psychiatric floor of a hospital ASAP.
As a African & Native American Woman if a friend of mine were to make unwise decisions when it come to men, do not mean I have to stoop to her level. I will never lower my morals & values as a woman for anyone. I have had associates that would sleep with every Tom, Dick, & Harry, but they have to answer to the man above when they close their eyes on this earth for their actions. I let them know I disagree, I don’t share their views, but I have to answer to God for what I do when I close my eyes, not any birds I flock with.
Peace!!
Sherry, I kinda think NENE and Mr.Gary’s babymomma have more in common than we think. I agree with the old adage, "birds of a feather flock together."
dayum all dude had to do was seek sole custody of his kids. guess it’s cheaper to pay her and not have to actually be a daddy.
Only chicken heads think that they should be compensated for being concubines for men that don’t want these children. If you can’t force a woman to have an abortion then you SHOULD NOT be able to force a man to support a child he never wanted. WOMEN make the decision to have these children not men. This woman knew he was married, had a one night stand and now she is being compensated for being the adulterous hoe that she is. Judge Cynthia Wright was RIGHT! Many hard working people don’t make $5000 per month but she get $28,000 for being a hoe?? Willie Garys’s wife should sue the hell out of her and recoup some of that money. Ladies, stop letting these men make you into baby mommas before they make you a wife! Baby mommas look so foolish when they start complaining about the child support they think they should receive. If you can’t afford to have a child by yourself they you shouldn’t be getting pregnant. The only women that should be allowed to receive child support in a court of law is a woman who had children by her HUSBAND. These unmarried chicken heads continue to be compensated for their stupid, foolish, uneducated, dumb decisions. I’m sure that if courts stopped awarding child support for illegitimate children, we would cut out these teenage and out of wedlock pregnancies. No child should be raised without both a mother AND a father in the home. Ladies, if you want to have a child find a husband – not a paycheck! These women are then escalated to celebrity status and have nothing to offer to society. They are bad role models and terrible images for our younger generation of women!
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Wow…. at least she got her child support im waiting for my son’s father to come out from under his attorneys to do a legit test that he sent someone else to take and maybe i could get some help. so take care of your responsibility but he too should pay.
Well, Diana went thru a lot at a young age. Being a young parent and even after the death of her mother, she went on to become an RN. I would say that she has some good qualities besides the faults that being brought out about her. We all just need to stay true to who we are. What are your "SINS."
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close yo leggs to married mens!!!
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@ trob4:
what harships did diana go thru?
she is an RN? sincee when?
i thought she was trying to go to the olympics and that is why she met willie, to get funding?
if she was training for the olympics when did she become a teen mom ?
I just hate how some of the women on this site are glorifying this gold-digging, baby mama lifestyle. Hate it if ya’ll are raising little girls to grow up and become little whores because it will get you rich quicker!