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With lawyer Gloria Allred by her side, Vanessa Lopez held a news conference in Beverly Hills on Tueday in which she claims she and Shaquille O’Neal began an intimate relationship about five years ago. She says she was initially resistant because O’Neal was married, but he told her he had an “open relationship.”

The 30 year old model alleges that things took an ugly turn after she she told O’Neal she thought she might be pregnant.

“My life has changed so much because of what I had to endure since [September],” Lopez said at a Los Angeles news conference. “I fear that someone is after me.”

Allred said Lopez started dating O’Neal, 37, in 2004. She declined to address police reports linking her client to sexual relationships with Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West in 2006 and Orlando Magic star J.J. Redick in 2007.

The police reports, first obtained by TMZ, detail nasty breakups and allegations by Lopez that she was mistreated or harassed.

Allred said Lopez was initially hesitant about dating O’Neal.

“Ms. Lopez knew that he was married, but he told her that he had an open marriage and that he remained married for his image and for his children,” Allred said.

Lopez ended the affair because, she says, she was hurt by O’Neal’s reaction to a possible pregnancy.

“[He] responded by stating that she needed to tell the baby’s father and then went on to state that there was no way that the baby could be his,” Allred said. [source]

Lopez has also reportedly had problems with Denver Nuggets forward [and ex-boyfriend to Trina] Kenyon Martin, Orlando Magic star J.J. Reddick, and Cleveland Cavaliers guard Delonte West.