What Do You Think?
The NY Daily News has some great gossip today about former professional baseball player Roberto Alomar being sued by his former girlfriend because he knowingly had sex with her while he was suffering from full blow AIDS.
Sounds horrible, and it is a really good read. The thing is you have to read it a couple of times. If you believe everything that is said then, it does appear that Roberto does have AIDS.
She says they started dating in 2002 and started having unprotected sex about a month later. In 2004 they moved in together. At some point this year she noticed he had cold sores in his mouth. In 2005 after a Tampa Bay Devil Rays physical exam a doctor there said Roberto should get a HIV test, but Roberto refused saying he was clean. A few months later the couple moved to Cleveland where he tested positive. At that point, his girlfriend Ilya Dall said she tested negative and stopped having unprotected sex with him. They didn't break up however until about four months ago.
In her suit she is demanding at least $15 million in punitive damages, claiming Alomar caused her emotional distress and exposed her children to the virus.
"He jeopardized the health, well-being and life of the plaintiff, which caused her to have a fear of contracting AIDS, often referred to as AIDS phobia."
OK, I agree that if he knew he was HIV+ and continued to have unprotected sex with her that is unconscionable. This is where I am a little confused though. She is suing for emotional distress and because he exposed her kids to AIDS, but she lived with him for 3 years AFTER she discovered he had AIDS. During those three years her kids lived with her and Roberto and it didn't seem to bother her. She continued to have protected sex with him after she discovered he had AIDS.
The whole thing sounds awful and she really does appear to be a victim and Roberto is not a nice person. Don't think I am taking his side because I can't stand him. He once spit in the face of an umpire during a game. He is an a-hole of monumental proportions. I just think this might not be the most valid lawsuit ever filed. It is hard to argue for those things when you continued to live with him, have sex with him and have your kids live there too.
Now, what is interesting to me is that prior to this relationship with Dall, Roberto was with pro tennis player Mary Pierce for a very long time. I would be interested to see what she has to say about this.
So, what do you think? Does she have a case or is she just trying to get more bucks?
25 comments:
Bit of both.
I agree, Ms. I live in Cleveland and I don't know if he was whoring around when he played here but since he is an athlete and a bit of a douche, there are probably some frantic chicks out there right now.
Use condoms people, sheesh.
You should read the Daily News article. He claims to have been raped by two men when he was 17.
Wow. Roberto Alomar has AIDS. I would have never guessed that one. I could care less about this trumped up lawsuit, I'm still stuck on the AIDS bit.
Oh, and Dall runs a massage "spa" in Queens, NY.
You know, this story is really disturbing me. Not because it exists, or is being reported, but because of the fact that people are leaping to factual conclusions based on a f--ing pleading.
I can go and find myself an unscrupulous attorney and file a pleading with a court seeking monetary or injunctive relief against ANY of you claiming whatever the hell I want -- that you violently raped me with a flagpole, that you set my dog on fire, that you carved swastikas into my kid's chest with a penknife -- whatever I want. The court will accept the document and, so long as I can show that I properly served you with the complaint, begin an appropriate procedure requiring you to file an "answer", which is a legal response to the factual and legal claims I asserted in my complaint.
That DOES NOT mean that you did any of these things!!!!!! I will have to PROVE these factual statements (unless you formally admit to them in your response) in court in order to recover on my claim.
So what does this pleading tell us? It tells us PRECISELY this: that ONE person BELIEVES that Robby Alomar has AIDS. Yet the press, and many other normal folks following the story, seem to have lept to the conclusion that Alomar does have AIDS, and this is just its first disclosure.
And that really bothers me, because asshole or not, Robby Alomar doesn't have to say shit about his health status to anyone, nor does anyone deserve to be tagged as suffering from a deadly disease by someone if they are not.
Just my $.02.
i think she's she's trying to see what she can get out of this, $$$-wise. she voluntarily stayed w/ him for 3 yrs after finding out...wth was she thinking? does he need to own up for the years/whatever time frame he denied it? absolutely. but after that, she's the dumbass who stuck around for the "emotional distress". i think she's as much a douche as he is.
THIS IS BETWEEN THE TWO OF THEM...AND I PITY HER IF SHE'S LYING ..
SHE is the one that exposed her kids to the virus by staying with him - and they wouldn't have been in any danger from him anyway-so silly.
Why did she wait for so long to sue?
It would be more credible if she slapped him with a lawsuit immediately upon finding out he's HIV+ - by waiting, she looks like she's milking the gravy train for all she can get out of it, and dragging her kids into it for the pity factor. Shame.
AIDS phobia? Who doesn't have a phobia about AIDS?
I was surprised to read he had AIDS too.
I agree that there are likely a whole lotta baseball groupies that are freaking out right about now...what sports celebrity isn't a ho?
I hope it's proven that she found out when he did (I read that she stopped having sex with him when he tested +ve), but if he knew ahead of time that he was infected and still had unprotected sex with her, then forget the lawsuit--he needs to be criminally prosecuted.
Sounds to me she stuck around for those 3 years hoping he'd marry her so she'd get his money that way, and when he wouldn't marry her she did this to get his money!
Weird that Alomar was with a woman. When he played, he was often rumored to be gay.
As for the refusing to get tested, and continuing to have unprotected sex...well, I hope he suffers a long horrible death for that.
sean, maybe he's bi?
he's wrong and should be found guilty of something if it went down this way, but she shouldn't get a penny from him. if she was so upset and concerned for her kids, she would have moved out the day she learned about this and filed against him at that time.
wait a minute. are these THEIR kids or her kids? if they're hers, how the hell does she figure he endangered them? was he fucking them too?
sounds to me like she's just looking for money. if she'd left immediately that's one thing. she didn't. case closed.
Probably the case will be thrown out. Doesn't sound honest to me.
I'm with Juicy--I think she stuck around for three years waiting for the marital shoe to drop and now is trying to grab some money with whatever private information she can dredge up.
A Pimp Named DaveR ... methinks thou soundeth like a lawyer....or you get sued a lot. Either way, you are right on the money. Just because you allege something in a court filing doesn't make it true. I can accuse anyone of anything, even someone I've never met them. Then, unfortunately, it is up to you to defend against my allegations. But that's how it works.
That being said, if she knew for 3 years and didn't go when she found out, I say "BOOOO!" on this lawsuit. And yes, that's a legal term. ;)
No case. He probably broke up with her and she's angry because she's been with him throughout this whole order. So again, no case.
Well.. okay .. I might be a total a-hole for doing this .. but before I sleep with anyone in the PAE [Post-AIDS Era] we BOTH get tested. Started doing this when I was in college in the mid 80s and have done it ever since. We can go to his doc .. mine .. whomever .. but I need to see lab reports before I will sleep with anyone because .. horror of horrors .. I am allergic to latex. : / And yes .. I also do a herpes smear test and other std panels. Total buzzkill, I know .. but I have enough health issues .. I really do not need to add HIV/AIDS to them! Now .. in fairness .. I have only slept with 3 people since 1990 .. so not too many people have been embarrassed!
I think she might just possibly be suing for a less than honorable reason that fear for herself and her children. I think the suit will either get tossed or she will find the jury less than supportive for the exact reasons you outlined, EL.
Crap on a cracker .. that should be less than honorable reason THAN..
I really need to proof read BEFORE hitting post!
I knew Alomar in Toronto 1991-95. He was a disgusting obnoxious pig. He had no respect for anyone; let alone pretty women. You would walk by him at a VIP event (he was at almost all of them), never having seen him before in your life, and he would grab your hand and say, "hey baby wanna take a ride on this" sticking out his chest and his manhood with a big shit-eating grin... he was not a fan of candy coating nor perfuming the pig. ewwww... and i am pretty sure that a lot of TO women took him up on it... thank god i passed...
another point of interest... at the time Pam Anderson was signing autographs at a monster truck event and he invited her to the Hard Rock at Skydome. They drank many bottles of champagne together and spent the rest of the weekend holed up in his SkyDome hotel room. He and his friends bragged to anyone who would listen, and it became common knowledge that they had quite a marathon in his room. Skydome in those days was the home of pro baseball, football, and basketball. It was a very small community, and word traveled with lightening quick speed. Alomar worked out at the Skydome gym with us mere mortals... probably just looking for new victims... i mean leering at new victims
Scary sh!t... i count my lucky stars...
twunty mcslore said...
Oh, and Dall runs a massage "spa" in Queens, NY.
Don't be so quick to judge on this one. The NY Times reported she was a massage therapist when they met, which says to me she may have followed a career path into management. Which is exactly what I did after I became a massage therapist 18 years ago and then eventually moved in hotel spa management.
I also happened to grow up in Whitestone, the Queens neighborhood mentioned in the article where she lived with Alomar. Middle to upper middle class mostly and a likely place for a legitimate massage business to prosper.
Having said all that, I think she probably got pissed off at him for something and decided to make trouble. It's not fair but, like Enty, I'll always remember him for spitting in the umpire's face. I feel no sympathy for him and I never will.
use CONDOM but she want more bucks and has a case!
If the whole AIDS thing did scare her. Then why did she keep her kids there? Maybe what scared her was not that she knew he had AIDS. But that he never told her. Like she just found/figured out that the whole time he knew. Maybe at first she didn't think he knew he had AIDS. So she stayed with him. Then somehow found out he had it. She is now afraid of the whole "lie" of it all. Becoming afraid that people "will lie about having AIDS". Having the phobia because she can't trust that people will be honest. If your other half and the one who tells you they are in love with you doesn't speak up. Then who will be honest about anything. I know AIDS is a disease that's spread thru sex,blood etc... Maybe she gets freaked out thinking about running into someone who is cut. It gets on her. That person never says anything about having the disease. I don't know... I'm rambling......
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