Alex Rodriguez’ ex-wife, Cynthia Scurtis, said the retired baseball star has no business criticizing her for not working while she has collected $115,000 a month in child and spousal support from him since their 2008 divorce, TMZ is reporting.
Scurtis explained in a statement to TMZ that she hasn’t been able to earn her own income because Rodriguez didn’t want her to work after their breakup. He told her he preferred that she instead focus on rearing their two daughters, now 13 and 10.
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“To ensure that our daughters had a stable upbringing, and given his extensive traveling, Alex requested that I discontinue working and make parenting my primary focus,” Scurtis said in her statement to TMZ.
Scurtis issued her statement in response to a TMZ report last week that the former New York Yankees slugger wanted to drastically reduce the $115,000 a month, tax free, that he’s been paying to her.
Rodriguez has claimed that he took such a massive hit to his income when he retired in 2016 that he can no longer afford to pay such an amount. Rodriguez believes his daughters only need about $7,000 to $12,000 a month in child support, though he would be happy to pay $20,000, TMZ reported.
Rodriguez appears to be especially annoyed that, thanks to him, his ex-wife has become a rich woman with “millions in the bank,” three homes and multiple cars, TMZ’s sources said.
Meanwhile, Rodriguez claimed, Scurtis chooses not to work, despite the fact that she has a master’s degree in psychology. Scurtis also has a new baby and fiance, leaving Rodriguez feeling like “he’s now bankrolling all of them,” sources told TMZ.
According to TMZ and other outlets, Rodriguez has been locked in a bitter legal battle with Scurtis for months, which follows the theme of their bitter divorce 10 years earlier.
Rodriguez and Scurtis were married from 2002 to 2008 and are parents of 13-year-old Natasha and 10-year-old Ella. They divorced among cheating rumors, Miami.com reported.
In the spring of 2017, Rodriguez began dating Jennifer Lopez. Personally and professionally, he seems to be “on a roll,” the Daily News reported. He’s traveled the world and purchased luxury real estate with the pop megastar, including a $15.3 million Park Avenue condo in March. One source estimated that Rodriguez has a net worth of $300 million, after earning an estimated $480 million over his 22-year career in Major League Baseball.
Yet, Rodriguez said his income dropped 90 percent since 2016 — from $30 million a year, while he was on the team, to around $3 million a year, TMZ reported.
Scurtis reportedly is willing to lower the payments to $50,000 a month, but no lower, leaving the ex-spouses at an impasse, TMZ reported.
And Scurtis is now lashing out at her ex-husband, saying in her statement to TMZ that it’s “disheartening” the way that he’s “resorting to falsehoods,” presumably about his income or about her reasons for not working.
“I find it terribly disheartening, shocking and disappointing that Alex has resorted to reporting falsehoods,” she said in her statement. “Why he seeks sympathy from the press and public baffles me.”
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