His ex-wife, Alissa Pavano, the ex-wife of former MLB pitcher Carl Pavano, has accused him of some troubling and disgusting behavior as part of a nasty prenuptial agreement fight. She claims that he coerced her into signing the “unconscionable” agreement by threatening to abandon her.
In legal documents, Alissa Pavano claims she “had given up her residence, potential employment, and all financial independence” after Carl had shown “ongoing controlling behavior,” including cutting her off financially and threatening to take their children away from her. The couple shares three children, two of whom were born before they were married.
Additionally, Alissa alleges that Carl did things like urinating in her shampoo bottles and contaminating their shared bed by having female friends use it while she was traveling. She further claims that he took away all of their clean sheets, making it impossible for her and their kids to sleep in clean beds.
Alissa Pavano also claims that the former Major League Baseball pitcher took her jewelry, put secret cameras around the house, including in the bedroom, vandalized her property, “planted drugs” in her possessions in an attempt to have her kids taken away from her, and called her names like “loser” and “white trash.”
The documents also claim that immediately after receiving divorce papers in 2024, Carl Pavano posted a message in a family group chat “that showed multiple firearms laid out on the kitchen table” and the tagline, “hold the fort.”
CT Insider reports that over the past two years, since the divorce proceedings began, someone had summoned police to their joint Connecticut home nine times, most recently on April 29.
Carl Pavano’s ex-wife wants their prenuptial agreement invalidated
“A prenuptial agreement is an acceptable way for individuals, prior to marriage, to condition how their financial interests and responsibilities will be determined after marriage,” Alissa’s lawyers wrote.
“It should not be an acceptable way for a monied spouse who has already started a family with his significant other to force her to give up her financial independence, and then to extract financial advantages in the premarital agreement under the threat of taking the minor children away from her and leaving her destitute.”
Alissa Pavano is fighting a previous judge’s ruling
A trial judge previously ruled that the prenuptial agreement “does not contain an unfair or unreasonable provision for the plaintiff.”
“It was no secret that he was wealthy,” the judge wrote in his decision. “After receiving advice from an attorney that she should not sign the Prenuptial Agreement and should negotiate more favorable terms given his considerable assets, she voluntarily decided to sign the agreement and relinquish potential rights. She did this knowingly as a college graduate with a bachelor’s degree in biochemistry from Florida State University.”
“Plaintiff signed the agreement in the face of Defendant’s controlling behavior and threats to leave Plaintiff destitute and ‘alone,’ without her children unless she signed his unilaterally drafted prenuptial agreement,” Alissa Pavano’s attorney responded. “The trial court decided not to invalidate the prenuptial agreement because it erroneously focused on the videotaped signing after Plaintiff had a $500 consultation with her attorney.”
Carl Pavano infamously signed a four-year, $39.5 million contract with the New York Yankees in 2005, but he started only 26 games, posting a 5.00 ERA, before the Yankees traded him to the Cleveland Indians in 2009. During a 14-year career playing for the Expos, Twins, Marlins, Yankees, and Indians, he had a 108-107 record with a 4.39 ERA. In 2004, his best season, he went 18-8 with a 3.00 ERA and made the National League All-Star team.