This story includes a $1.2 billion team eight homes two of which total $47 million and a boat load of allegations and slander. It amazes me that two can remain married for 30 years accomplish so much together and then one day throw it all away. There is something definitely wrong with people today. Check this Out:
According to sources the Los Angeles Dodgers franchise is being rocked by the spectacularly nasty divorce of the team’s owners, Frank and Jamie McCourt.
The case is less than a week old and it’s already yielded accusations of adultery and lavish alimony demands and been dubbed the “War of the Roses.”
The high stakes, very public battle became official when Jamie filed paperwork Tuesday to end the power couple’s 30-year, $1.2 billion union.
She claims her estranged husband “unceremoniously” fired her as the Dodgers’ CEO in mid-October in a greedy bid to claim her share of the team.
Frank, 56, responded by saying he booted Jamie, 55, for insubordination and an “inappropriate” affair with bodyguard Jeff Fuller.
Jamie dropped a list of eye-popping demands, including monthly support of almost half a million dollars, unlimited five-star travel, free use of Dodger legends at events and flowers in her office.
Jamie also is demanding reinstatement to her $2 million-a-year job and an even share of the team she says they bought as co-owners for $430 million in 2004.
Frank, naturally, is balking.
“To order her reinstatement as she wishes is akin to throwing a bomb into a crowded room,” states a court brief filed by the Dodgers on his behalf.
Frank claims Jamie gave up her right to the Dodgers when she signed an agreement stating he would be the team’s sole owner and she would own their eight homes, including a $20 million mansion near Beverly Hills and a $27 million house in Malibu.
Jamie said she thought the document was a strategy to protect assets from creditors, not a surrender of her Dodgers share.
“Frank is seeking to take unfair advantage of me and blatantly abuse the trust and confidence I had always placed in him,” Jamie, a lawyer and business school graduate, said in a court declaration.
Her lawyer said she’s lined up financing to buy out Frank. “Congratulations to her for being a prospective buyer,” Frank’s lawyer told the Los Angeles Times. “There is no seller. Perhaps she could explore some other sport.”
