Adam Levine’s wife should know his behavior is consistent ‘with a cheater,’ divorce attorney says

Adam Levine has denied having a “physical” relationship with an Instagram model and asserted that he and his pregnant wife, Behati Prinsloo, will get through this scandal “together.”

But new claims from additional women that the 43-year-old singer sent them flirtatious, sexually charged texts show a “pattern of behavior” that’s consistent with “a cheater,” a prominent family law attorney said Tuesday.

That means that Prinsloo, Levine’s wife of eight years, should be “skeptical’ of his claim that his relationship with 23-year-old Sumner Stroh didn’t get “physical” or that he never had an “affair,” Holly R. Davis, an Austin, Texas-based divorce attorney said in an email with this news organization.

Stroh, saying she wanted to get ahead of a tabloid report about her dalliance with the Maroon 5 frontman, came forward on TikTok Monday to say they had a year-long “affair.” She backed up that they had a relationship by sharing screenshots of apparent DMs from Levine, including one in which he asked if he could name his new baby after her.

“If a person claims that their relationship with someone’s husband was physical, Adam Levine’s wife has to be skeptical of any claims to the contrary by Adam,” Davis said.

“If they are supported by text messages, DMs, screenshots, or even receipts, a wife should be even more skeptical of claims that it was ‘only emotional,’” Davis continued. “Nine times out of 10, if a person has gone so far as to meet up with a person that they are flirting with or connecting with on the internet, you have to make the assumption that it turned physical at some point. Why else meet up?”

After Levine’s former yoga teacher and two other women came forward Tuesday to say that the singer sent them flirty messages as well, Davis added: “You have a pattern of behavior that is consistent with a cheater.  Whether or not the relationships resulted in actual physical touching in our technological world full of virtual calls, and Facetime, is pretty irrelevant.”

Alanna Zabel, who said she was Levine’s yoga instructor from 2007 to 2010, said in an Instagram Story Tuesday that the singer one day “texted me saying ‘I want to spend the day with you naked,’” Fox News reported. 

Another woman, a comedian named Maryka, also took to her Instagram story Tuesday to share her alleged DMs from Levine, Page Six reported. The first message said, “I’m now obsessed with you.”

When Maryka replied, “Dude aren’t you like married,” Levine allegedly said, “Yes but it’s a bit complicated. Stuff gets hard and the vid thing didn’t help. I might get away.”

The cheating allegations against Levine come two weeks after he and Prinsloo, a Victoria’s Secret model, let it be known to People magazine and other outlets that they were expecting their third child together. The couple, married since 2014, already are parents to daughters Gio Grace, 4, and Dusty Rose, 5.

In denying an affair with Stroh, Levine admitted to “crossing a line” in his marriage by having “inappropriate” and “flirtatious” conversations with other women.

A source close to Levine told People that the rocker has insisted to people around him that “nothing physical happened. He swears it.”

“He was messaging her, being flirtatious with three women,” the source told People. “One of them — she specifically said they have a physical relationship but he is completely denying that to friends.”

As for why Levine would flirt with other women, the source told People that Levine craves “female attention.”

“Why would he do this? He liked the attention,” the source said. “He likes it more than most.”

In one of two TikTok videos Stroh posted Monday, she said was young, naïve and new to Los Angeles, where she fell under the sway of a famous, older celebrity. She said she felt “exploited” and “easily manipulated” by Levine, who she says seduced her, saying he was unhappy in his marriage.

“I was under the impression that their marriage was over and I thought they were keeping it quiet to avoid negative press,” Stroh said. “I assumed that with celebrities of that caliber that’s how it was.”

Stroh said she feels “embarrassed” and “disgusted” with herself for getting into this situation with Levine, and she she was “so sorry” for causing hurt to Prinsloo and her children.

For his part, Levine said that he saw female attention outside his marriage “during a regrettable period in my life.”

From her experience representing spouses ending their marriages, Davis agreed that reaching out to others on social media is usually “a symptom of a larger problem within the relationship.” She said such choices “can lead to divorce.”

“There are so many ways that relationships break down before someone gets to the point of reaching out to a stranger on social media for a connection,” Davis said. “If two people aren’t communicating well in a relationship, and one person is willing to take the risk to look for attention or flirtation outside of the marriage instead of working steadfastly on themselves and the connection with their spouse, I do see that leading to divorce.”