End run blocks juicy tidbits in Belichick-linked divorce case
By Gayle Fee and Laura Raposa/ Boston Herald
Friday, July 21, 2006
A high-priced attorney in a scandalous New Jersey divorce case yesterday moved to seal explosive court records that implicate New England Patriots coach Bill Belichick as the Other Man in the marital bust-up.
Court officials in Morristown, N.J., refused to grant access to records involving the dissolution of the 10-year marriage of Vincent and Sharon Shenocca of Covent Station, N.J.
The speculation is that the judge sealed the records -- which were reviewed by the Track -- because they contain details about the couple's sex life, including the wife's fantasies about girl-on-girl action, her proclivity for porn and the husband's desire for them to take part in a "threesome."
Sharon, 41, who told the court she "would not engage in this perversion," said there "was no room in the marital relationship for a third person."
So what about Bill Belichick?
Vincent Shenocca, a self-employed construction worker, alleges his wife and mother of the couple's two young children has been carrying on a relationship with Belichick "for several years" despite her husband's pleas to end it.
The three-time Super Bowl-winning head coach has sent Sharon "large sums of money and expensive gifts which she has used to purchase expensive clothing, pocketbooks, watches, a treadmill and maid service, most of which she initially hid from (her husband).
"(She) refused to consider (his) feelings and has continued her relationship with Mr. Belichick," according to court documents.
Sharon said in the divorce filing that her relationship with Belichick was "plutonic (sic) and never hidden from (her husband)."
Vincent's attorneys filed a request with the court earlier this week asking for permission to depose Belichick about his relationship with Sharon. A court date is set for early next month.
Sharon (nee Radigan) met Belichick in 1988 when she was the receptionist at Giants Stadium and he was the team's defensive coordinator. Her mother, Judith, also worked at the stadium.
"Sharon saw everybody who walked through the doors at Giants Stadium and that's how they built their friendship," one of her lifelong friends told the Track yesterday. "She's a great gal with a great personality. But from Day One, it was always friendship. He's strictly a good friend and nothing more."
But large sums of cash? Limos arriving to pick her up for the Super Bowl?
"What is wrong with a friend helping a friend in need," asked Shenocca's childhood pal who grew up with her on Long Island. "There is nothing going on with those two. Bill is a total gentleman. And she's been totally, totally loyal to her husband."
As Sharon's friend tells it, Belichick did host her at Super Bowl XXXVIII in Houston, but she didn't make the trip alone. Her sister, Kerry, joined her, he said.
"You know as well as I do that Belichick is off limits during the Super Bowl," he said. "You may stay in the same vicinity as the families, but you don't see the coach or the players. They're off limits. You know how lockdown is."
Only too well...
Shenocca's friends said that the church-going, stay-at-home mom, not her husband, "is the victim here."
Not so, said a friend of Vincent's who told us his buddy is "getting screwed big time."
"Here's a guy who makes $75,000 a year," said the friend. "And she's backed by Belichick. How can he compete with that?"
The F.O.V. said just the other night, a private car picked up Sharon and brought her to the sold-out Bon Jovi concert at the Meadowlands. And everybody knows Bill and Bon Jovi are BFFs...
Anyway, Vincent has told friends that Belichick, in addition to FedExing his estranged wife cash, has rented his good friend Sharon a summer home in Lavalette, an exclusive seaside community on the Jersey shore.
Yesterday, as the Patriots remained mum about the coach's private life, Sharon Shenocca was holed up in her yellow ranch house located in a middle-class neighborhood of other well-kept homes. A policeman was posted in front of the house to deter any media from knocking on her door.
Hence, our failed attempt to reach her. Vincent Shenocca was also unavailable.
As you're well aware by now, the coach and his wife of 28 years, Debby, split before the 2004 football season. Belichick moved to Hingham, but still spends time with his wife and their children.
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