Jay Mariotti Sentenced After Domestic Violence Arrest

LOS ANGELES — The Los Angeles city attorney's office says ESPN personality Jay Mariotti has pleaded no contest to a misdemeanor battery count stemming from an August incident involving a female companion.

City attorney's spokesman Frank Mateljan says Mariotti was sentenced Thursday to 36 months of probation, community service and a domestic violence course.

Mariotti was originally charged with seven counts, but Mateljan says all other counts were dismissed.

A statement issued by Mariotti's attorney says they were confident of prevailing at trial but it would have been long and expensive. The statement claims Mariotti was the victim of false and exaggerated allegations stemming from a public argument.

Comments

[Belle Starr]

05:17 PM on 10/02/2010

Too bad Teddy Atlas wasn't there. Atlas put a gun to the head of a young Mike Tyson for harassing a woman.

[DrVic]

01:04 PM on 10/05/2010

And I see that set Mike on the straight and narrow path. lol.

[ilikemusic]

02:27 AM on 10/02/2010

As a very occasional viewer of Around the Horn, I can honestly say I NEVER liked Jay Mariotti. If I asked someone to point out a bad stereotype of a sleazy used car salesman, I would expect them to point out someone who looked just like Jay Mariotti.

[jerry25]

01:56 PM on 10/02/2010

Agreed about Mariotti. Even Charles Barkley says he is his least popular media person.

I was just commenting to myself yesterday, that I haven't seen Jay on the air in quite some time.

However, I think the attorney's statement is correct. I am sure that the charges were exaggerated and he doesn't deserve punishment other that to get him off the air.

Mariotti has hurt a lot of people during his time. Now he will see what it is like to be on the other side.

[jukesgrrl]

01:45 AM on 10/02/2010

"Mariotti was the victim of false and exaggerated allegations ..." NO, he's NOT the victim. The victim was the woman he lived with. The one he pleaded guilty to battering. It's outrageous for his attorney to use that word in relation to Mariotti.

[MenderofRoads]

07:52 PM on 10/03/2010

No contest ≠ guilty

[Dr Confuso]

08:10 PM on 10/01/2010

I wonder which McDonalds he's gonna be working at so I can keep going through the drive-thru, making farting noises into the microphone. What a macho turkey poser.

[geese1920]

07:12 PM on 10/01/2010

I'm sorry, but you don't get to plead "no contest" to charges, and then release a statement that you are innocent and the only reason you didn't fight the charges was because it would be costly and time-consuming. Either you plead innocent and release a statement reaffirming your innocence, or you plead guilty, or no contest, and simply $hut up.

[Linda Ferris]

02:24 PM on 10/01/2010

Another case of entitlement male on a power trip. America's legal system must step up and put these guys in check. Otherwise, you will be seeing some vigilante justice take hold like never before. The country of women is sitting on a tinder box of anger because the system has failed them in abuse cases. They are training, and are quite clever.

[shocktreatment]

01:36 PM on 10/01/2010

Because of his aggressive attitude and obvious lack of aptitude as a sports analyst, this domestic abuse incident doesn't surprise me.
To be remembered: domestic abuse is almost never a single incident, close to 100% of the time it is ongoing and habitual. Mariotti undoubtedly has perpetrated before, this time the law got involved. We shall see what the future brings for this thug.

[jukesgrrl]

01:47 AM on 10/02/2010

I'm hoping the future brings him a smaller bank account.

[johnqpublik]

01:14 PM on 10/01/2010

Ozzie Guillen was right about this guy.

[motoGpifupleez]

01:07 PM on 10/01/2010

So he claims that he would have been proven innocent but he just doesn't want to take the time and spend the money to do so?

Reminds me of a guy who brings a bike into the shop and says "I would fix it myself, but I just don't have the time".

Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[SaraNader]

12:26 PM on 10/01/2010

Typo alert: The word "personality" is used in connection to this Jay Mariotti story.

[armyov1]

12:15 PM on 10/01/2010

Wow Jay, you should now demonize yourself like you do all the athletes you report about. KARMA IS A B@#$%...

[Lowell Thompson]

11:57 AM on 10/01/2010

Jay Mariotti? Jay Mariotti? The name's familiar but I can't place the face. I think there used to be a sportsguy here in Chi-town with a similar name.

http://buythecover.com

BTW: Didn't he used to own a hotel chain?

[SGTDBK]

09:44 AM on 10/01/2010

Mariotti is a joke. I won't watch OTH if he is allowed back on the panel.

[KDog76A]

12:45 PM on 10/01/2010

Not even if they gave you the power to freeze him out with your remote?

[SGTDBK]

12:52 PM on 10/01/2010

Sorry *ATH not OTH

[maidenofdforest]

09:43 AM on 10/01/2010

I don't know---but there are men who respect women and they don't have to be Sir Galahads to be nice. But there are men like Mariotti --or Mel Gibson for that matter, who thinks women do body building regimen or Tae kwan Doe daily to protect ourselves. The physical or verbal abuse, may be (inadvertently) warranted or unwarranted, The verbal abuse is not only disconcerting, it can lower self-esteem. But any men who assaults and inflicts pain and awards bruises to women (or children) out of anger and dissatisfaction are simply cowards, their b--lls hanging by their pants. Until a .45 confronts them by their nose.

And this goes to all women who batter their BF's or husbands. When you hit them @ home or in public out of anger, or hurl invectives, we degrade ourselves. Both instances, when children are spectators, the memory bank goes rolling and envelopes trauma to a wider extent and longer repercussions.

[Michael Dayne]

07:45 PM on 10/02/2010

Thanks for pointing out that Domestic Violence is not limited to men abusing women. Men are at a distinct disadvantage physically and in the eyes of the police and the courts when it comes to this issue and they are the ones being abused.

[maidenofdforest]

11:17 PM on 10/02/2010

My husband is a medical photographer with a pager called to hospital ER. I ask him often what were the cases (no names--just situation inquiry for privacy). I am both appalled by men assaulting and battering women but MORE so with women, doing exactly the same to men.

What is an irony is that when women are recipients of these abuses, all nurses, doctors, police, and what have you got there are all over HER. When the men gets the assault from a spouse, he is all left to himself to nurse whatever is left of his self respect.

We need just to show decency in our treatment of people regardless of gender or age. We can spare the children from this trauma---please from both sides.

[mahercrit]

09:37 AM on 10/01/2010

wonder if a 25yr old hispanic man with a public defender would have gotten probation , and had 7 charges dismissed

[johnnycmlately]

11:02 AM on 10/01/2010

How about that.

[bmay0089]

11:52 AM on 10/01/2010

I wonder if it was Stephen A Smith...Prolly would have gotten the same punishment as Mariotti....Its not a race thing, its a celebrity thing