Shaquille O’Neal, 53, Rejects Rumor That He’s Dating 21-Year-Old OnlyFans Model Sophie Rain

The Big Diesel is shooting down rumors that he has a new, much younger, friend.

After a picture surfaced online of Shaquille O’Neal at OnlyFans model Sophie Rain’s 21st birthday, the Hall of Fame basketball player aimed to set the record straight with TikToker Noah Glenn Carter.

“I don’t [date] that young but I will date your mom and give u a brother,” O’Neal, 53, wrote in the comments under a video of Carter insinuating that the two were an item, according to TMZ.

In the photo, O’Neal smiled widely while Rain posed in front of the former Los Angeles Lakers star and gave the camera the middle finger.

“Look who I met,” Rain, clad in a see-through dress and holding a drink, wrote over the pic.

To further distance himself from the rumor mill, O’Neal offered a couple of since-deleted comments to Carter, per TMZ.

“Stop tryna create rumors don’t make me slap you dude,” he wrote, and added. “Your mom is hot tell her to hit me on my sky tell pager.”

For O’Neal, his appearance at the birthday party for the Christian influencer — who went viral earlier this year after revealing she has made $50 million on OnlyFans — is not the first time he’s had to shoot down rumors about his dating life.

One year earlier, O’Neal denied that he was one half of a PDA-packed viral photo shared by a woman named Maria Ozuna Teachey on Instagram and obtained by TMZ. The image showed Teachey and the mystery man — who shares a similar build to the former basketball star — embracing in a NSFW position while standing in front of a mirror.

After the social chatter reached O’Neal, he went to Instagram to set the record straight and denied being the man depicted. “Nope not the kid,” he commented on the post shared by Worldstar.

As for the real version of his dating life, O’Neal has shared that he would likely not remarry, after ending his nine-year marriage to Shaunie Henderson in 2011.

“I’m gonna end up alone,” the father of five said. “I already know it … because y’all be making rules up as you go along. There’s no handbook on how to be the perfect man or perfect husband.”