The weird story of Carl Pavano and the Yankees just got weirder. The pitcher, who signed a lucrative free agent deal before last season but hasn't pitched in the majors in over a year due to several injuries, got in hot water a few weeks ago when it was revealed he was in a car accident and didn't tell the team about it. Now, we learn this:
Despite the fact that the police's accident report shows there was no passenger in the oft-injured hurler's car, a curvaceous beauty queen was indeed riding shotgun.Pavano, who dated Alyssa Milano, is known as something of a ladies man. What he's not known for is being any good at all, as he parlayed one good year with the Marlins into big free agent moolah.Through his lawyer, the driver whose Solid Waste Authority 18-wheeler Pavano hit, Ernest DeLaura, 47, of Port St. Lucie, confirmed there was a woman — but a friend of Pavano's immediately came to the scene to whisk her away.
She was identified as Internet pinup Gia Allemand, 22, a former Miss South Beach and Miss American Teen. When reached by Page Two, Allemand declined to say what she and Pavano were doing when the Porsche Carrera was totaled at about 11:25 a.m. on the rain-slicked Jog Road, just miles south of Pavano's home at Ironhorse.
There has to be some story behind this, which sounds like a bizarre hybrid of Chappaquiddick and Tom Wolfe's "Bonfire of the Vanities." Why was the model whisked away? Still, it's not nearly as embarrassing as the Scott Saurbeck incident.
Posted by Stephen Silver at September 19, 2006 12:52 AMI wonder what Hesh and the rest of Tony's crew would think caused this accident
Posted by: Tainted Bill at September 19, 2006 05:37 AMUgly girl. Using the publicity from an unfortunate event to boost a pipedream of becoming a model. Why would he want his bad situation getting even worse by now opening himself up to even MORE media attention with a girlfriend who doesn't know enough to say "no comment", that that is TRULY standing by your man and being there for him. Not dragging his name into the paper yet again to get your freakin name in the headline, I really could give to shits that "Gia Speaks Out"...Gia shut up, and get some more plastic surgery, leave this poor guy alone so he can focus on staying out of the public eye and playing ball, not having his balls played with in the public eye.
Posted by: CrankYanker at September 27, 2006 04:35 PM