Evelyn Lozada's In The Circle Party Did Not Include Jennifer Williams

Evelyn Lozada spent most of her week either celebrating her birthday or her Basketball Wives cast mate Shaunie O’Neal’s birthday. Lozada turned 36 this past weekend and was showered with lavish gifts mainly from her fiance Chad Ochocinco. Ev shared a few pictures of her new Maserati, her Hermes Birkin bag and her new Christian Louboutin shoes on Twitter. But the gifts certainly didn’t substitute for the party! Evelyn reportedly hired event planner Amaris Jones to host 15 to 20 of her closest friends at Chad’s Miami estate. The ladies are seen wearing a new shirt with the print ‘In the Circle’. This tit for tat is quickly wearing off but for the sake of keeping you posted: Jennifer Williams and Evelyn engaged in a heated back and fourth via Twitter recently. Ev tweeted:

“My circle of friends gets smaller and smaller & I love it. I don’t have time for part time fake friendships. Keep it moving!”

Jennifer later tweeted in a separate incident: “There are such things as REAL FRIENDS!!! Too many to name! Luv u all! #blessed”

Perhaps in retaliation to the back and fourth Evelyn decided to provide ‘In the Circle’ tees for her ‘real friends’. Sigh

Back to her party that Jennifer was not invited to, Lozada and her friends enjoyed dinner at Prime 112 and later partied at LIV nightclub. We’re sure everyone had a blast.

The Insider is just reporting that during Shaunie O’Neal’s birthday party last weekend, Jennifer and Evelyn who both attended but were not photographed together got into an altercation! Reportedly there was an intense verbal argument that resulted in Evelyn hitting Jenn over the head with her clutch – and yes – cameras were rolling.

With all this childish back and fourth it’s hard to believe these women were ever ‘real friends’. The madness will soon unfold in February when season four of Basketball Wives premiere.

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