Ex-Met Lenny Dykstra's fortune, marriage and business rep flame out
Posted by sportsfan1 on July 12th, 2009
“The sports world’s own mini-Madoff,” says Kevin Coughlin, the fired former art director of Dykstra’s star-crossed magazine, The Players Club.
Lenny Dykstra is still fighting to stay in The Game. Like the rash of injuries that forced him out of baseball in 1996, a litany of suits is threatening to drive him from the business world where he’s made – and apparently lost – a fortune.
While the stigma of steroids has sullied his Major League stats, the shame of filing for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection this week has battered his reputation, but not his enormous ego.
Creditors have filed more than 20 suits against him since last year, suggesting that if you did business with Nails, you wound up getting hammered.
Click here to read the full article – By Larry Mcshane of DAILY NEWS
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July 12th, 2009 at 4:21 pm
The story of Lenny Dykstra is so tragic. A great baseball player in his own day.
I have never seen anything like what happened to Lenny. The list of people he owes money to is ridiculous.
I think this quote says it best..
“The sports world’s own mini-Madoff,” says Kevin Coughlin, the fired former art director of Dykstra’s star-crossed magazine, The Players Club.
That WAS someone who worked for him. Doesn’t that just say it all..