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The Shady Truth About Larsa Pippen

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Larsa Pippen keeps landing in tabloid crossfire no matter who she’s standing next to.

The former Real Housewives of Miami star and estranged wife of Chicago Bulls legend Scottie Pippen has spent the better part of a year explaining herself. First it was a mysterious falling-out with the Kardashian-Jenner clan, the family she’d been photographed with at courtside seats and family vacations for years. Then it was a very public romance with a married NBA player. Through all of it, Pippen has stayed exactly where she seems to like it best: in the headlines.

• Kim, Kourtney and Khloé Kardashian unfollowed Pippen on social media in July 2020, the same stretch of time Kanye West posted a cryptic tweet that read simply “Larsa.”
• On the “Hollywood Raw” podcast in November 2020, Pippen claimed West “brainwashed” the Kardashian family against her after she blocked his phone number following repeated late-night rant calls.
• Photos of Pippen holding hands with married Minnesota Timberwolves guard Malik Beasley in Miami in late 2020 set off public outrage from his wife, Montana Yao.

The Kardashian Fallout

For years, Larsa Pippen wasn’t just adjacent to the Kardashian-Jenner family — she was inside it, a regular at family gatherings and a fixture in Kim Kardashian’s Instagram grid. That access evaporated almost overnight in July 2020, when eagle-eyed fans noticed Kim, Kourtney and Khloé had all quietly unfollowed her. The timing lined up with one of Kanye West’s stranger public outbursts: a tweet consisting of a single word.

“Larsa”

That was the entire tweet. West offered no context, but the internet did the math instantly, connecting it to the sudden radio silence between Pippen and the family she’d been so tightly wound into. West deleted much of his Twitter activity around that period amid a broader public unraveling, but the “Larsa” tweet had already done its damage to her standing with the Kardashians.

Pippen’s Side of the Story

Pippen didn’t stay quiet for long. In November 2020, she went on the “Hollywood Raw” podcast and gave her account of what happened, claiming West had turned the family against her. According to Pippen, West had been calling her late at night to rant during his marital troubles with Kim Kardashian, and when she blocked his number, he retaliated by poisoning her relationship with the rest of the family. She framed herself as someone who got caught in the crossfire of the Wests’ marriage and paid the price for simply knowing too much.

Insiders close to the Kardashians told a different story, alleging that the real reason for the freeze-out was Pippen’s own behavior — specifically, that she’d been chasing publicity off the family’s name and leaking private details to tabloids. Whichever version is closer to true, the friendship that once put Pippen in Kim Kardashian’s inner circle hasn’t been publicly repaired since.

The Malik Beasley Scandal

Before the Kardashian fallout had even cooled, Pippen found herself at the center of a second controversy. Photos surfaced in late 2020 showing her holding hands with Malik Beasley, then a guard for the Minnesota Timberwolves, in Miami — while Beasley was still married to Montana Yao. Yao went public with her anger, calling out Pippen directly and igniting a wave of criticism that painted Pippen as chasing headlines at the expense of another woman’s marriage. It was the kind of story tailor-made for the reality-TV ecosystem Pippen had built her name in, and she weathered it the way she’s weathered most of her controversies: without disappearing from view.

A Long Road Through Divorce Court

All of this unfolded against the backdrop of Pippen’s own unfinished business — her divorce from Scottie Pippen, which she initiated back in 2018 and which dragged on for years without a clean resolution. The Bulls Hall of Famer and his estranged wife share four children, and the prolonged split has given tabloids a steady undercurrent to every other headline involving her name, from the Kardashian fallout to the Beasley photos.

Pippen’s run on “The Real Housewives of Miami” gave her the reality-TV instincts that critics say explain her staying power — an ability to court controversy and then talk her way through it on her own terms, the same skill set that’s kept plenty of other reality stars relevant long after their shows end. And the Kardashian split fits a familiar pattern for anyone who’s watched famous friendships curdle in public, the kind chronicled among celebs who started out friends and ended up enemies.

As of July 2021, none of it — not the Kardashian silence, not Yao’s public anger, not the unresolved Scottie Pippen divorce — has knocked Larsa Pippen out of the news cycle. If anything, each controversy has just fed the next one, which is about as reliable a career strategy as she’s ever had.