SLUGGER’S LEGAL WOES
In the decade since their divorce, ex-wife Cynthia Rodriguez says there have never been any issues with the terms of the settlement, including child-support obligations. But Cynthia says something changed within the last year — coinciding with A-Rod’s relationship with Jennifer Lopez — and in September, for the first time, they had to bring in a mediator to resolve differences. But those talks over Alex’s child-support payments soon turned ugly. In addition, A-Rod is embroiled in two other disputes:
Former University of Miami pitching coach Lazaro Collazo was a defendant in the federal Biogenesis case, which involved the distribution of performance-enhancing drugs from the Coral Gables anti-aging clinic Anthony Bosch founded. The same clinic was at the center of the MLB investigation that resulted in ARod’s season-long ban. Collazo pleaded guilty and served no jail time, but he filed a lawsuit against A-Rod in 2015. Collazo claims Rodriguez violated Florida law and his privacy by buying medical records that were part of Bosch’s Biogenesis clinic — where Collazo was a patient — and sharing those records with third parties. “We are in the process of taking depositions, and the trial is set for next year,” says Collazo’s attorney, Frank Quintero Jr.
Constantine Scurtis, the younger brother of A-Rod’s ex, Cynthia, filed a multimillion-dollar breach-of-contract lawsuit against A-Rod in 2014 in Miami. The case is slated to go to trial next year. Scurtis (inset) alleges Rodriguez bilked him out of millions stemming from a real estate company the two men started in 2003 — ACREI LLC (Alex Constantine Real Estate Investments). Scurtis claims he was forced out of ACREI in 2008, the same year A-Rod and nd Cynthia divorced. The suit also alleges Alex used Newport ewport Property Ventures, the operating company under ACREI, CREI, to commit mortgage and insurance fraud in the aftermath ermath of Hurricane Ike in 2008. According to recent court documents in the case, a former Newport employee e — Jeanette Crook — was scheduled to be deposed. Crook was a whistleblower who made the insurance- and mortgage-fraud claims. No criminal charges have been filed.