Sometimes, I can't believe what I read in the papers. Not that what's there isn't true--simply, I can't believe that some details actually make it to print. Like Rome under Nero...

Yesterday, two articles covering high-profile cases jumped out at me from the pages of the New York Post.

First was the piece on the now-notorious Long Island doctor that donated a kidney to his allegedly adulterous wife, and now he wants either the kidney back or $1.5 million. Great story, makes for great copy, but the Post loves to take things to the next level:

KIDNEY WOMAN DENIES AFFAIR
By SELIM ALGAR

Adultery, paranoia and ladies undergarments were all hot topics inside a Long Island courtroom today where a surgeon who gave his wife a kidney is asking her to give him $1.5 million in compensation since they're getting divorced.

The lawyer for Dawnell Batista, 44, asked Judge Jeffrey Grob to place a gag order on the case after her estranged husband, Richard Batista, held a news conference last week accusing her of adultery.

Though Grob denied the motion, lawyer Douglas Rothkopf also argued that his client was the victim of a "hyper-suspicious" husband and that no adultery had ever taken place.

"He would rummage through her underwear drawer sniffing her underwear (emphasis mine)[to see if she had cheated]," Rothkopf said inside a Mineola courtroom.(link)

I mean, you're a doctor. For starters, isn't there a more clinical (less barbaric) way to tell if your wife's been unfaithful? Couldn't you hire a PI?

The second story regards Knicks center Eddie Curry, who's found himself on the business end of a gay sexual harassment suit. Now I don't know if Eddie's guilty, and the details of his personal life really aren't anybodies business, especially if this is true:

KNICK SLAPPED WITH SEX-HARASS SUIT

By MELISSA JANE KRONFELD and BRUCE GOLDING

Knicks center Eddy Curry was slapped with a shocking sex-harassment suit Monday by his former driver, who claims the 6-foot-11 hoopster tried to solicit gay sex from him.

The stunning court papers claim Curry, a married father of three, repeatedly approached chauffeur David Kuchinsky "in the nude," allegedly telling him, "Look at me, Dave, look" and "Come and touch it, Dave."

Curry also made Kuchinsky perform "humiliating tasks outside the scope of his employment, such as cleaning up and removing dirty towels [Curry had ejaculated into] (again, emphasis mine) so that his wife would not see them," the Manhattan federal court suit says.

(Link)

Towels? Come on, Eddie. I get the whole "greening" trend (towels leave a lesser carbon footprint than, say tissues), but there's gotta be a more discrete way of handling one's business. And why does that factoid have to end up in the story?

Needless to say, you didn't get these types of stories in the Albuquerque Journal...Only in New York, only in New York.

Labels: Basketball, New York