Tony Parker has filed a £20million lawsuit against photo agency X17 after it ran stories claiming Tony cheated on his wife Eva Longoria with a French model.

X17 published Alexandra Paressant’s claims that she had “an affair with Mr Eva Longoria and that the two carried on a secret relationship for about two months” and also printed additional “evidence” such as text messages said to be from the basketball star and a plane ticket from France to San Antonio, Texas where Tony is based.

In a lawsuit filed at the Los Angeles County Superior Court yesterday, Tony alleges that X17 defamed him, claiming: “X17 had to know that the story was false, or at the very least, it had to have entertained serious doubts about the credibility of its supposed source.”

Additionally, X17 didn’t seek to “verify the information with Mr. Parker, Ms. Longoria, any of their representatives or….anyone else who might have knowledge of the truth or falsity of the allegations.”

Tony has denied the affair, which Alexandra claims began after the pair met at Tony & Eva’s Paris wedding in July, and the lawsuit states: “Tony Parker has never had sexual relations with a woman named Alexandra Paressant.”