Posted on 02/11/2009 7:57:03 AM PST by libh8er
Baseball great Roberto Alomar has full-blown AIDS but insisted on having unprotected sex, his ex-girlfriend charged Tuesday in a bombshell lawsuit. The shocking claim was leveled by Ilya Dall, 31, who said she lived with the ex-Met for three years and watched in horror as his health worsened. In papers filed in state and federal court, Dall said Alomar finally got tested in January 2006 while suffering from a cough, fatigue and shingles.
"The test results of him being HIV-positive was given to him and the plaintiff on or about Feb.6, 2006," the $15 million negligence suit says.
Nine days later, the couple went to see a disease specialist who discovered a mass in the retired second baseman's chest, the court papers say. Alomar's skin had turned purple, he was foaming at the mouth and a spinal tap "showed he had full-blown AIDS," the suit says.
Alomar, 41, who quit baseball over health issues in 2005, could not be reached for comment. His lawyer, Charles Bach, would not say whether Alomar is HIV-positive. "We believe this is a totally frivolous lawsuit. These allegations are baseless," Bach said. "He's healthy and would like to keep his health status private. We'll do our talking in court."
Alomar's father, Mets bench coach Sandy Alomar, said the claims were news to him. "That's the first time we ever heard of that," he said from Puerto Rico. He didn't think his son could keep a serious illness secret. "I imagine I would know," he said.
Dall, a mother of two who has run a massage spa in Queens, would not discuss the suit.
"I have no comment," she said outside her lavish home in Whitestone, Queens, after getting out of a black Cadillac Escalade. She referred inquiries to her lawyer, Anthony Piacentini, who declined to comment.
The suit was filed Jan. 30 in Queens Supreme Court. Alomar had it transferred to Brooklyn Federal Court Tuesday. The court papers outline the couple's relationship, starting in 2002. A month after they began dating, Alomar convinced Dall to have unprotected sex and assured her he was disease-free, the suit alleges.
In 2004, Dall says she noticed cold sores in his mouth. In 2005, after a physical exam ordered by the Tampa Bay Rays, he was diagnosed with thrombocytopenia purpura, a blood disorder sometimes linked to HIV, she claims. The doctor told him to have an HIV test and he refused, she says, stating he had been tested and was AIDS-free.
In April 2005, Alomar told Dall he was suffering from erectile dysfunction and confided "he was raped by two Mexican men after playing a ballgame in New Mexico or a Southwestern state when he was 17," the suit says. It goes on to say that around the same time Alomar developed a persistent cough and was bedridden with extreme fatigue.
He developed thrush, a yeast infection, and was told by a doctor to take an HIV test - but refused, Dall claims.
"I don't have HIV," he told her repeatedly, the suit charges.
A few months later, the couple moved to Cleveland, where Alomar supposedly tested positive. Dall claims that after she learned Alomar had AIDS, she tested negative and no longer had unprotected sex with him.
They broke up last October.
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," the suit says.
Considered one of baseball's greatest second basemen, Alomar stirred controversy in 1996 by spitting in the face of umpire John Hirschbeck. The incident prompted fellow ump Al Clark to say, "If I were John, I'd insist that Robbie Alomar take an AIDS test."
HIV has never been transmitted through saliva, however, and last night Hirschbeck said he had no concerns about his safety - or hard feelings from their on-field run-in.
"You're telling me something I'm shocked at," Hirschbeck said. "I wish him nothing but the best."
Goes to show you how much I follow baseball news. I had no idea he had AIDS.
“Dall, a mother of two who has run a massage spa in Queens, would not discuss the suit.”
Massage spa?? LOL!! She’s probably better off filing a workers’ comp claim for work related illnesses!
I’m sure a reporter will ask 0bama about it at his next news conference.
I had to scroll to the bottom of the article to find out if she got infected, and she tested Negative. Imagine that. We were told HIV was going to spread like wildfire among the general population because of heterosexual transmission, and here we have a woman having sex with a full blown AIDS patient and still tests negative! And why would she lie when testing positive would only have bolstered her case ? Heterosexual transmission of AIDS was always a big myth. Not that it cannot happen, but it’s hugely overstated.
Yet this gold digger stayed with him.
Remember Sandy he sucked when he was a Yankee but from what I remember he seemed like a good guy.
I'm glad Jack Morris cured me of baseball years ago. I don't think the current Baseball Commissioner is very glad about the month of February, 2009....
A laughable Magic Johnson type claim ‘I’m not gay, I’m not bi’ press release in three....two....one....
I thought AIDS can show up after 10 years. She still may get the disease it’s just she does not have it now. Who knows!
Except when he is spitting in the face of an umpire.
Oh ok I did not know.
For years there was talk and innuendo throughout baseball about Alomar being a fruit, so this is no surprise.
The previous poster was talking about Sandy not Robby.
BTW, Hirshbeck is lucky he didn’t get his ass kicked after making racial slurs and insulting Alomar’s mother.
Actually viruses are very difficult to detect. It's the anti-bodies that show up in the tests.
The facts are very clear. The odds of getting AIDS if you are a male during sexual intercourse with a female infected are almost nonexistent.
You either shoot up with dirty needles, or you are engaging in sodomy with another male.
Explains his performance with the Mets.
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