Speculation Swirls Over A-Rod Photos
A front-page story in the New York Post insinuating that the Yankees third baseman was having an extramarital affair may have raised more questions than it answered, private investigators in the city said yesterday.
The newspaper featured photos of Alex Rodriguez walking out of a car and into an elevator alongside an unidentified woman while he was in Toronto Sunday. The article said they spent an hour in a strip club.
Staff writer Dan Mangan wrote the story, but the newspaper did not include the name of the photographer who took the pictures or the person who reported the story in Toronto.
The New York Post and the Yankees, who have the same spokesman, Howard Rubenstein, declined to comment for this story.
"The article says they ducked into an elevator," the founder of Sherlock Investigations, Skipp Porteous, said. "I don't see that," he said of the photos. "I don't see them touching. … This is a case I would have been very careful about."
A former New York police detective who now runs his own firm, Bo Dietl, said he is a friend of Rodriguez's and that he had no indications that his marriage to Cynthia Rodriguez was on the rocks. The couple has a 2-year-old daughter.
"Did he go home with this broad?" Mr. Dietl asked. "Maybe. ... But I would have heard if there's problems between them."
The fact that Rodriguez was walking around town with a mysterious woman in tow shouldn't immediately be interpreted as infidelity, the founder of Meyerson Associates, Barry Meyerson, said.
"It's happened before when I'm like, ‘Wow, this is the money shot,' and my client has been able to identify the woman as his stepsister, attorney, business client," Mr. Meyerson said. "For celebrities or well-known clients, if they are really doing something they are not out in broad daylight like that."
A divorce attorney, Gary Newman, said if a divorce ensued, Cynthia Rodriguez "would have a huge entitlement" because Rodriguez's 10-year, $252 million contract was signed before they were married.
Cynthia Rodriguez could not be reached for comment last night.
