In case anyone was wondering...
Posted on 04/28/2005 4:54:00 PM PDT by highimpact
Female professional golfer Jackie Gallagher-Smith has been slapped with a bombshell lawsuit by her former caddie, who charges that she enticed him into a steamy sexual relationship so she could conceive the child she couldn’t have with her husband.
In the suit, filed in Palm Beach County, Fla., on April 27, Gallagher-Smith’s former caddie Gary Robinson, 26, claims the golf pro’s actions made him "an unwitting sperm donor” and were "beyond all bounds of human decency.”
Robinson says he’s seeking damages for "severe emotional distress” for pain and suffering due to Gallagher-Smith’s refusal to allow him access to the child, born in March of this year.
Robinson is represented by prominent Palm Beach attorney Cathy Lively. The suit was filed in Florida, as Gallagher-Smith lives in Palm Beach County.
According to the lawsuit obtained by NewsMax.com, Gallagher-Smith was 36 years old when Robinson began serving as her caddie on the LPGA tour in February 2004. Robinson was 25.
The blonde-haired Gallagher-Smith joined the LPGA in 1994 and has earned more than $1.1 million in tournament winnings. She married her husband, Eddie Smith, in 1992.
Robinson alleges that their physical relationship began with suggestive comments from Gallagher-Smith and requests that he "massage her back, neck, and shoulders . . .”
The relationship developed in April 2004 when Gallagher-Smith invited Robinson to stay at her Palm Beach County home "as her husband was out of town.”
After watching golf videos and a movie, the couple became intimate.
"While seated together on the couch, Gallagher-Smith began to move closer and ultimately physically placed herself on Robinson’s lap and began kissing him.”
Over the course of the next few weeks, the golfer "induced Robinson to enter into a sexual relationship,” he claims.
Then, during a tournament in June, Gallagher-Smith invited Robinson to stay with her in her hotel room "wherein the parties engaged in daily sexual activity,” according to the suit.
"On or about June 27, 2004 . . . Gallagher-Smith, with the intent of conceiving a child, intentionally induced Robinson to engage in unprotected sexual intercourse and encouraged that he take no preventive measures.”
Gallagher-Smith told Robinson she was pregnant in mid-July and said she believed he was the father of the child, according to the lawsuit.
The suit continues:
"Robinson’s beliefs that Gallagher-Smith’s actions were intentionally done for the purpose of conceiving are strengthened by the fact Gallagher-Smith had advised Robinson that she had wanted a child; that she and her husband had been attempting to conceive a child but that they had been unable to do so.”
Robinson further charges that Gallagher-Smith never intended to allow him to have any part in the child’s life, "forcing Robinson to go through the rest of his life questioning whether he was a father and forever wondering about what he believed to be his child.”
Ironically, Gallagher-Smith – who leads Bible study groups - is a Christian athlete and member of Life Athletes, a group whose "commitment” includes this statement: "I will give myself only to that special person I marry as my partner for life.” And according to Robinson’s lawsuit, "Gallagher-Smith would encourage Robinson to engage in sexual relations and then invite him to join her at bible study meetings.”
Edwin Belz, Gallagher-Smith’s attorney, issued a terse comment to NewsMax. "It’s extortion,” he said.
This guy puts the CAD in Caddie.
He should be made to pay child support, even if it isn't his, just for being greedy-stupid.
Wimp.
"Female professional golfer Jackie Gallagher-Smith has been slapped with a bombshell lawsuit by her former caddie, who charges that she enticed him into a steamy sexual relationship so she could conceive the child she couldn’t have with her husband. "
And he's SUEING her? He should send her flowers!
Maybe its just my dirty mind, or the mind altering drugs the VA gave me but that looks like a certain item for lonely women in her hand she is kissing.
I just don't believe it ... heterosexuals in the LPGA!!!
Lol
In case anyone was wondering...
If such lewd conduct was required to be a caddy for, say, Grace Park, I would be the first to sign up.
I can't think of a caption for that pic that wouldn't get me banned for life!
I'd nibble the rough on that one.
Okay... I guess she likes a stiff shaft.
She gives new meaning to "ball washer."
How many dimples are there on his balls?
This is sooo getting yanked.
That's very charitable of you, but I will never be convinced that he is anything but a money-grubbing opportunist.
I feel confident that if this were the sales clerk at the pro shop, instead of a millionairess, he would be suffering no emotional distress, or any other interest.
If all of this had been discussed in advance, and he were to be allowed a role in the child's life -- and is now being deprived of it, then he would have a case. That seems an unlikely situation. He strikes me as simply a male version of someone looking for a "sugar-daddy", in this case a "sugar-mommy."
I'll bet he has long hair. It shouldn't bother me, I guess, but it does.
I believe a father should have all the responsibilities and privileges of being a father as a mother does for being the mother. He should be allowed to know if the child is his and be allowed parental rights. A mother may carry and give birth but the child is as much the father's. We expect men to pay child support but we won't acknowledge that they have parental rights and responsibilities also. Fatherhood needs to be taken much more seriously in our culture. A child needs his/her father as much and sometimes more than he/she might need his/her mother. I was brought up without my father and have always had a deep sense of loss because I did not know my father. My mom divorced him and never looked back when I was four.
What a wimp. He should have been the one hitting on her.
She didnt rape the guy or force him to have unprotected sex plus he knew she was married so shut up dude but she should allow him to see his kid if it is his and he is fit
Question to caddie. "What size wood would you use on this hole?"
Some people have all the fun. ;)
This NEVER worked with Mrs. Theknow.
Besides, her "Tour Status" says she's "exempt".
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