Manchester United defender Patrice Evra has been accused of cheating on his wife with a Playboy model.

The 31-year-old, who has a six-year-old son named Lenny with his partner, is alleged to have invited model Carla Howe to his five-star hotel suite following a night out in Paris.

The 22-year-old, who maintains that she was unaware that Evra was married and had a son, has claimed that the pair spent three months sending flirty text messages and phone calls before meeting up in the French capital.

"I loved him and I thought we had something special," Howe told The Sun. "It was all lies. I feel terrible for his wife because he was talking to me and messaging me dozens of times a day for months. He never once mentioned he was married, let alone had a child."

Meanwhile, Evra is preparing with his teammates to face Real Madrid in the first leg of the round-of-16 tie in the Champions League on Wednesday.