Throwback: When former NBA player Tony Parker was accused of cheating on Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria

TOI Sports Desk / TIMESOFINDIA.COM / Mar 15, 2025, 18:16 IST

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Eva Longoria and Tony Parker, once a celebrated couple, divorced in 2010 after Longoria discovered Parker's infidelity through text messages. Although initially rumored to involve Brent Barry’s wife, Erin Barry, those rumors were denied. Longoria has since remarried and built a new life, while Parker’s subsequent marriage also ended.

Throwback: When former NBA player Tony Parker was accused of cheating on Desperate Housewives star Eva Longoria

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Eva Longoria, the star of the hit reality show Desperate Housewives, and her ex husband, former NBA player Tony Parker, were one of the most popular couples in the world in the late 2000s. The two met in 2004 and by 2007, Tony Parker and Eva Longoria had tied the knot. However, the fairytale did not last long as in 2010, Eva Longoria filed for divorce, according to People. The drama only began then when it was revealed that Tony Parker cheated on Eva Longoria with another woman.

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According to Extra, the Desperate Housewives star found messages which confirmed that her husband, Tony Parker, was cheating on her. It was later speculated that the woman Tony Parker cheated with was his teammate Brent Barry’s wife, Erin Barry.

However, Erin Barry was quick to deny the rumours. According to TMZ, Brent Barry’s wife, Erin Barry took to her website and wrote, "My friendship with Tony Parker had nothing to do with the end of my marriage (which is painful enough without this added drama), and to assume that we had an affair is naïve, ridiculous, and completely misguided.”
In an interview with the US Weekly, Eva Longoria had later opened up about her feelings afshe found out she was cheated on. She said, “It wasn’t about who he chose. I mean, I had moments [where I wondered], ‘Am I not sexy enough? Am I not pretty enough? Am I not smart enough?’ But in so many of those questions, I immediately stopped and said, ‘No, don’t start doing that.’ Because you can get stuck in that cycle and you can carry on to other things.”
Eva Longoria eventually did move on and now she has been married to Mexican businessman José Antonio "Pepe" Bastón Patiño since 2016 and even has a child with him.
Tony Parker married Axelle Francine, a French journalist, in 2014 but the couple separated in 2020. It is not known if he is with anyone now.
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