A Florida man who worked as a personal assistant to Shaquille O'Neal claims the NBA superstar tried to frame him by planting child pornography on his computer after a falling out. 
 
 In papers filed in Florida state court in Miami, Shawn Darling claims O'Neal hacked his computer as part of a revenge plot after Darling exposed affairs O'Neal was supposedly having with several women, including rapper Alexis Miller, who goes by the stage name MaryJane, and model Dominica Westling. 
 
 Darling is suing O'Neal, who last month signed a $3 million deal to play for the Boston Celtics, for making "repeated attempts to frame Darling of amongst other things possession of child pornography," Darling states in court papers. 
 
 Darling also claims O'Neal, who has played previously for the Los Angeles Lakers, Miami Heat, Phoenix Suns, and Cleveland Cavaliers, caused him emotional distress. 
 
 "By sending e-mails and by making phone calls to his agents and others, O'Neal engaged in a scheme to place Darling in grave danger and to deprive him of property," Darling states. 
 
 "O'Neal knowingly obtained or used, or endeavored to obtain or to use, the property of Darling with the intent to, either temporarily or permanently deprive Darling of a right to his property and his communications, or a benefit from the property or appropriate the property to his own use or to the us [sic] of any person not entitles [sic] to the use of the property," Darling claims in the rambling, at times almost incoherent, 15-page complaint. 
 
 Darling is seeking unspecified damages and has asked the court to order a jury trial. O'Neal's agent, Perry Rogers, did not immediately respond to a request for comment. 
 
 
 
 
 
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 NBA star Shaquille O’Neal is at the center of an explosive new lawsuit accusing him of computer hacking, destroying evidence and indicating that he attempted to frame an employee by planting child pornography on his computer, RadarOnline.com is reporting exclusively. 
 
 EXCLUSIVE DOCUMENTS: Read The Shocking Lawsuit 
 
 Shaq’s former employee Shawn Darling filed the suit for intentional infliction of emotional distress, invasion of privacy and civil R.I.C.O. (a racketeering charge) on August 3, in Miami-Dade County, Florida. 
 
 Here are some of the explosive allegations: 
 
 Shaq hacked into the voicemails and phone systems of Darling and Vanessa Lopez , a mistress who is currently suing O’Neal. He deleted Lopez’s messages and changed her password. 
 
 , a mistress who is currently suing O’Neal. He deleted Lopez’s messages and changed her password. O’Neal used his law enforcement contacts, both active and retired, to obtain restricted information about one of his mistresses, Alexis Miller , while he was involved in a legal battle with her. 
 
 , while he was involved in a legal battle with her. Shaq threw a personal computer holding much of this evidence in the lake behind his home. 
 
 Shaq conspired with active law enforcement as well as ex-members of law enforcement to frame Darling for a criminal offense and destroy any evidence that Darling might have against O’Neal. 
 
 Darling says there is proof in the form of emails, text messages and photos that Shaq had multiple affairs while married and tried to keep that information from going public. 
 
 PHOTOS: Shaq’s Mistress, Dominica Westling 
 
 Darling, who has an extensive criminal background, told RadarOnline.com exlusively that his record didn’t bother Shaq because “that was why he hired me.” 
 
 Darling worked for O’Neal from 2007-2009 as his personal IT guy and claims he was originally hired to work on “different O’Neal family projects.” 
 
 PHOTOS: Sexy Photos Of Shaq’s Mistress Vanessa Lopez 
 
 In August of 2008 Shaq was playing for the Phoenix Suns and Darling moved with him to work on O’Neal’s house. 
 
 At the time, Shaq was having an affair with hip-hop singer Alexis Miller who ended up accusing him of harassment and stalking. Shaq later settled with Miller. 
 
 PHOTOS: See More Pics Of Beautiful Dominica 
 
 The lawsuit alleges, “O’Neal told Darling that Alexis Miller had obtained a restraining order and that O’Neal said could not remember what he sent to Miller by way of text messaging and E-mail.” 
 
 According to the suit, Shaq asked Darling to retrieve every email and text message that he sent Miller-as well as all of Shaq’s phone records– so that he could be aware of what he was dealing with. 
 
 Darling says that after getting all of this information for Shaq, he then performed a “Defense Department type wipe of O’Neal’s computer” at the basketball star’s request. 
 
 According to the lawsuit, “O’Neal, along with his houseboy Joe Caballero, disposed of the computer in the lake behind O’Neal’s house and gave Darling cash to buy another replacement I-Mac.” 
 
 Lawyer Announces Vanessa Lopez Will Sue Shaq 
 
 Darling claims Shaq asked him to set up “a system where O’Neal would use Darling’s accounts to communicate with others” and gave Darling permission to keep all of his electronic communication so that it would be preserved. 
 
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 In October, 2009, following the demise of Shaq’s marriage to Shaunie O’Neal, Darling discovered he was having an affair with Vanessa Lopez. Darling reached out to Lopez, who told him that she thought O’Neal was trying to break into her voicemail, deleting messages and changing her passwords. 
 
 In the lawsuit, Darling says he found proof that Shaq was breaking into Lopez’s phone system and told her about it. 
 
 Lopez, who is currently suing Shaq for harassment and is being represented by power attorney Gloria Allred, then told O’Neal that Darling was giving her information behind his back, according to the lawsuit. 
 
 Vanessa Lopez Distraught Over Alleged Treatment By Shaq 
 
 At that point, Darling claims Shaq sent him threatening messages, tried to break into his voicemail and enlisted the help of an active Arizona detective to master a computer program that would allegedly allow him to frame Darling for possession of child pornography so that Shaq could confiscate the computer holding evidence of his affair with Lopez. 
 
 In emails quoted as evidence in the lawsuit, O’Neal’s agent wrote on December 15, 2009, “got it he will be stopped n pay for this.” 
 
 O’Neal wrote back “ok but in the meantime o boy needs to be put in jail, we have way too many law enforcement connections to let a criminal try to get over on mine o mine, we don’t need any distractions as we deal with Harvard guy, shoe line guy, restaurant guy, real estate guy and everything we are planning to do after basketball life…” 
 
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 (CNN) -- Shaquille O'Neal is fighting allegations from a former employee who says the NBA star stole his personal information and attempted to frame him for using child porn. 
 
 Shawn Darling, who was O'Neal's personal computer consultant, said the NBA center acted in retaliation because Darling had proof that O'Neal cheated on his wife with several women. 
 
 O'Neal's Florida lawyer said he will file a motion on Thursday to dismiss Shawn Darling's lawsuit claiming privacy invasion, racketeering and intentional infliction of emotional distress on the grounds that the suit has no basis in law. 
 
 "Even if everything he was saying were true, we believe there is no basis in the law to bring the case," Miami attorney Ben Reid said. "But in this case, none of it's true." 
 
 O'Neal, who this summer signed with the Boston Celtics, employed Darling from 2008 to 2009, while O'Neal lived primarily in Miami. During that time, Darling performed various odd jobs that gave him access to O'Neal's e-mail and cell phone accounts, according to the lawsuit filed in Miami-Dade Circuit Court in August and posted Wednesday on RadarOnline.com. 
 
 The 15-page complaint describes O'Neal's dealings with three alleged mistresses and his ex-wife, whom he was divorcing at the time. Among them are allegations that O'Neal used law enforcement contacts to obtain information about Alexis Miller, and that he hacked into a phone belonging to Vanessa Lopez, erasing messages and changing her password. 
 
 The lawsuit also accuses O'Neal and an associate of throwing his computer into a lake after Darling performed a "'Defense Department' type wipe" of the computer. Darling also claims that O'Neal believes he has pictures of him with Dominica Westling. 
 
 As a result, the lawsuit alleges, O'Neal has attempted to "control" Darling's actions through threats of violence and attempts to frame him for possession of child pornography and to have him arrested using O'Neal's extensive law enforcement contacts. 
 
 "O'Neal knows that Darling not only has knowledge of his bad acts that might be used against him in litigation, but O'Neal also knows that Darling has evidence that shows he cheated on his former wife [Shaunie O'Neal] with many more people than just Vanessa Lopez," the lawsuit states. 
 
 "Darling is in apprehension and fears for his safety," the lawsuit says. 
 
 O'Neal's lawyer issued a statement after the lawsuit was reported on Wednesday that described Darling as an ex-con who has served time in a federal prison in Wisconsin for misusing Social Security numbers, and said Darling failed to disclose the prison record to O'Neal. 
 
 An online inmate search of the Federal Bureau of Prisons showed that a man named Shawn Darling was released on March 22, 2002. An attorney for Darling did not return calls seeking comment. 
 
 Reid said Darling used his position to copy O'Neal's e-mails and communications. Over the past 12 months and through three separate lawyers, he has demanded $12 million for their return, Reid said. 
 
 When O'Neal refused to cooperate with Darling, he filed the lawsuit, Reid said. The complaint seeks unspecified damages and a jury trial. 
 
 "It doesn't take much to file a suit and unfortunately, this seems pretty common in our society. People target celebrities," he said.
– Crazy lawsuit involving Shaquille O'Neal: The big man's former personal assistant says Shaq attempted to frame him by planting child porn on his computer. Shawn Darling alleges the two had a falling out because he had proof that Shaq was having affairs. He also accuses the Celtics star of, among other things, hacking into his personal account, destroying evidence by dumping a computer into a lake, and using his police contacts in his revenge plot. Shaq's lawyer says he'll move to have the suit dismissed tomorrow. "Even if everything he was saying were true, we believe there is no basis in the law to bring the case," he tells CNN. "But in this case, none of it's true." Radar has more details, as does Information Week, which cautions that Darling's 15-page complaint is "incoherent" in parts.