WEIRD BELICHICK STORY GETS A LITTLE WEIRDER
The bizarre divorce proceedings involve a woman whose ex-husband claims was having an affair with Pats coach Bill Belichick took an even more bizarre turn this week, when a judge refused to allow the woman to move her two kids into a $2.2 million New York home owned by Belichick.
The woman, former Giants receptionist Sharon Shenocca, was chided by the judge for the proposed move into a property that she does not own and has no apparent means to financially maintain (the state taxes are $38,000 per year).
"She asked this court to permit her to take the children from their home, schools and neighborhood to a strange community in a different state to a house she cannot pay for and in which she has established no legal right to reside," Judge Stephan Hansbury wrote in his decision on the matter.
"Her only reply is the family friend [Belichick] will provide. She has provided no evidence that this is anything but a whimsical dream.
"[She] never produced this friend to testify at trial, nor did she offer any reason or explanation why she should be the recipient of this financial bounty," the judge added.
And that seems to be the heart of the issue. Mrs. Shenocca initially denied that she had received any money from Belichick, presumably because of the appearance that there can be no six-figure cash gifts in the absence of a romantic relationship.
She later admitted that Belichick sent her $150,000 in cash, and picked up the tab for multiple vacations.
Her proposal to move her two children, ages 6 and 8, into the townhouse owned by Belichick would lead a reasonable person to believe that, in the absence of a damn good explanation that has not yet been provided, there's something more than friendship at work here.
The judge apparently came to that conclusion as well. Even though the couple agreed to joint custody of the children, the judge gave Mr. Shenocca "residential custody," which means that the kids will visit with their mother every other weekend and for an "occasional midweek dinner.
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