Wade is fighting back. The Heat NBA star is suing his estranged wife and two of her lawyers. The lawsuit was filed on Wednesday over accusations Dwade contracted a sexually trasmitted disease through an extramarital affair. Wade is seeking $50,000 in damages from each defendant reveals The Associated Press. As we reported last month, Siohvaughn Wade said the player infected her with an unspecified disease back in 2007. Weeks later she withdrew her claim from the court hearing the divorce case. However, Dwade felt that the allegations still defamed his character. “It has been difficult to see false allegations, rumors and gossip repeatedly discussed in public about my personal life,” Dwyane Wade said in a statement released to the AP. “I had no other choice but to file this action in order to clear my name.”

Wade is also named Siohvaughn’s attorneys, Michael Berger and Doroene Marcus, as defendants in the lawsuit along with their firms.  The suit was filed in Chicago, where the divorce proceedings have gone on for nearly a year.

“Mr. Wade has been the victim of a reckless campaign by Siohvaughn Wade and her lawyers to publicly humiliate him and damage his reputation,” Joe Power, an attorney representing the Heat player, said in a statement to the AP. “To clear the public record from these false and malicious allegations, we have filed a defamation suit in court … and will seek appropriate compensation for damages.”

Siohvaughn Wade’s claim that were made “by and through her attorneys, and disseminated by various print and online media throughout the world placed plaintiff Dwyane Wade in a false light,” the lawsuit stated.

Siohvaughn’t attorneys don’t seem phased by the lawsuit though. “We believe there’s absolutely no merit to it,” Berger, one of her attorneys said. “I believe that the lawsuit will get dismissed. It seems interesting to me Wade would file a lawsuit like this when he supposedly wants to keep a low profile. This lawsuit will put his entire private and social life in full view of the public.”

source: ESPN & AP