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Shocker: NBA All-Star Dirk Nowitzki Allows Pregnant Fiancée to Languish in Jail
UPDATE: A September 3rd announcement revealed the result of a new pregnancy test requested by Dirk Nowitzki and ordered by a Texas judge in late July. Apparently administered in Missouri, it showed that his ex-fiancée was not pregnant at the time of the new test. Cristal Taylor was first tested -- by jail officials -- when booked in Dallas on May 6th. Those medical results, with virtually 100% accurate lab work by the county hospital, were officially released in late May. At that time, she tested positive for pregnancy. No word on when, precisely, a miscarriage was suffered during the ensuing months of incarceration.
Original Entry:
This story has fallen through the sports cracks as the NBA Playoffs have unfolded. It deserves to be part of the national dialogue under the category "professional athletes behaving like total cads toward women."
In short, here it is: Dirk Nowitzki, the 11-year power forward of the Dallas Mavericks, has a girlfriend. She's been living with him for the past year and a half. In fact, he's her sole means of support, which isn't a strain since he makes $18 million a year. She's attended games, sitting in his personal seats. She sat with his visiting father on at least one occasion, and Dirk's also met her mother from St. Louis. The two lovebirds became engaged this past New Year's Eve, a mere five months ago.
It turns out, however, that she has a criminal past. Specifically, a conviction in Missouri for felony forgery, passing checks that were not hers, apparently. She was on probation when she moved to Texas and then failed to complete the process. That was 11 years ago. Then, five years ago, she was charged with using a bad credit card for $10,000 worth of dental work. That's apparently the extent of her rap sheet.
Here's Dirk's: He meets her, dates her, she ultimately moves in with him for a long time, and now she's pregnant and he's letting her sit behind bars. His German coach supposedly never liked her, perhaps because she's 37, seven years older than Dirk, or perhaps because she's African-American, who knows? There is gossip that team owner Mark Cuban disapproved of the relationship.
At some point, it was reported that a private investigator was hired in advance of a prenuptial agreement and dug up her history. While Dirk and his team were at a playoff game in Denver, law enforcement showed up unannounced at his $8 million mansion (in George W. Bush's and Cuban's Preston Hollow neighborhood) and hauled her away.
When Dirk returned to town, he said nothing, and the local media willfully accepted his silence. After all, the playoffs were in full swing, and he's the local hero, so the visceral reaction was to pile on against her. The Dallas Morning News got the ball rolling, bringing up strip clubs (she'd been a waitress years before). Commenters on its website called her a skank, a ho, you name it. Shortly after the Mavs were eliminated in the second round, Dirk fled to his native Germany for the off-season.
Meanwhile, it's been almost a month, and she's still in jail and still pregnant. Why Nowitzki didn't simply write a check to a lawyer who would handle her relatively minor debt to society (for him, anyway), and then get her out of his house and life -- if that's what he wanted -- is a mystery. $100,000 to wash his hands and then longterm child support pending a paternity test is what he was looking at. It would have been so simple, and out of the media spotlight.
The approach he's chosen is downright cruel to her, ultimately penny-wise and pound foolish for him.
He's now letting his attorney do the talking. The hired gun's initial stab at legal advocacy was to call her a liar, claiming she wasn't given a pregnancy test in jail. Ah, but it turns out she was given that test, and it came back positive. The hired gun was wrong.
We don't know how much she told Dirk about herself. She claims she told him some, but that she downplayed it out of embarrassment. A friend says he called her his "little jailbird."
In any event, he moved her into his home for 18 months and assumed financial responsibility for her. An expensive engagement ring followed (over $100,000, she says, but he's got it), and the promise of a life together. There's home video shot in a happy love nest that seems to have seeded a junior Dirkster. Yet now, she's been kicked aside over her checkered past.
Her best bet is to find a sharp lawyer to handle her legitimate domestic claims with Dirk, especially in light of how he has behaved toward her at the finish line. And he needs to locate his conscience.
This is bad theater all around.
Jackson Williams: NBA All-Star Dirk Nowitzki and Pregnant Ex-Fiancée Back in the News
Nowitzki should have at least gotten a decent lawyer to contact the court and set up her arraignment. It happens every day on matters far more serious, so it wasn't necessary to orchestrate her public arrest.
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After putting it there, and during the most important developmental days of its life, Nowitski is letting the Dirk baby rot in jail, living on bologna sandwiches and female stress hormone. How rude. 'Hope its mother does not get punched in the gut by a Spurs fan. How's Nowitski going to tell little Dirkalina when she's 15-years-old that he let her molt under those conditions? All this 'cuz he's pissed 'cuz the baby momma lied? I always knew there's something not right with that boy. If you live in DFW and follow the Mavs you know Nowitski is kind of an oddball, no big deal. But this is a bad character move -- obviously made with Nowitski's posse egging him on. Nowitski will, and should, suffer greatly in the future for these choices. Man up, Dirk, get your child out of jail. It's bad enough you put it there. I'm guessing you had some clue the woman could have been carrying your child.
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Agreed. Whatever her past (new chatter of other children not raised), Dirk made her his personal concubine for over a year, bought her a $100,000-plus wedding ring, met mom, could easily have expedited her resoultion in Texas for the $10K credit card fraud and lawyer's fees (she'd have gotten parole and he'd be out $25K), and she'd have been back in St. Louis on the parole violation there (which would probably result in more parole.)
He could have done this even while washing his hands of her! He chose instead to let his potential child sit in jail, in the conditions you describe. Since she was probably two months pregnant at the time of the May 6th arrest, she's now pushing four months.
Most Nowitzki supporters think this the smart, classy thing to do. She deserves it, Dirk's unborn child deserves it, too. It's a "law and order" issue, never mind that she was destined to face the music regardless of how Dirk chose to handle it.
Society has always blamed woman, the harlot in all her wantonness. Cristal is apparently out of central casting, even if she mainly played it straight the past two years with Dirk. Doesn't matter. Since the dawn of man, the archetypal male is ALWAYS the bystander to a harlot, innocent so long as she lied and he didn't beat her (and even if he did in those days).
This should have -- could have -- gone down better. He's the one who decided that.
I think Jackson has had enough guys.
I haven't seen such cherry picked agenda driven writing like this since the lead up to the Iraq War. Let's hope Jackson has learned his lesson.
These comments are in charge of making sure someone has "learned their lesson?" That's some self-worth.
According to my software, Jackson used 705 words. He addressed the pregnant girlfriend's criminal past early on, in unvarnished detail. In fact, by the third paragraph! And she's not just a girlfriend. He's had her living in his house, on his $18 million a year salary, for a year and a half, and they got officially engaged on New Years Eve.
I guess anything short of spending all 705 words ragging about her past would be considered cherry-picking the facts to this mob. One of them even wrote that Dirk's behavior in this case would have been perfectly acceptable even if she were already his legally recognized wife. Think about that.
This celebrity wasn't being rolled by some one-night stand, and there's no evidence she rolled him at all beyond hiding some of her criminal past. He should have handled this better, rather than orchestrate her arrest at his mansion while he was away, whether or not he wanted to end his long term relationship with her. That's what I get out of it, and I have as much right to think so as any comment that uses bullying language to demand I think like them. Sorry, guys.
The name he new her by was one of 11 aliases she has used in her past. Kind of a deal breaker dude.
Think what you want, if I find out about your 11 other names and your criminal past, yes, you can rot in jail even if you are the wife....
My loyalty was to the character you wrote for yourself...not the criminal playing the character....
Once you learn it's all a lie, the "character" you played is gone and you are just the person who LIED and defrauded me into marriage?????
No, sorry, you rot in jail.
Just marry Jackson, though, he feels you have a right to defraud your husband and reap any benefits that may come as a result.
This woman lied to Dirk about everything. About her past, about who she is, about just about everything. Why should Nowitski have to continue to support this person? He doesn't even know who she is. You're likening this to a case of somebody refusing help to some innocent person who desperately needs it. In reality this is a case of somebody who dated somebody for a year and a half and just now found out the person he fell in love with never actually existed. Total betrayal on the woman's part. I would be handling this exactly the same way Dirk is if it were me.
Jackson,
NO ONE here cares about Dirk Nowitzki. John Doe, the plumber, in the same boat and everyone else here but you would still say the same thing...
It doesn't matter how long they were together or what was promised, etc....she LIED to him...he found out about Tony Banks, etc. and it CHANGED everything for him.
No one but you thinks a person has any obligations to people who deceive, and possibly defraud, them.
If you don't believe that he was hurt and realized she wasn't the person he knew....then WHAT do you believe is his motive?
He was pretending to be in love with with a 37 year old woman...to use her up and throw her away? He could buy any girl he wants, I'm sure...yet he shacked up with a 37 year old woman and, from what you say, treated her very well...UNTIL when? When he learned the truth about her...
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You've written in prior comments that you'd agree with Dirk leaving her pregnant and abandoned in jail even if she was already his wife! As if a wife -- or a pregnant fiancée -- is nothing more than chattel that he controls. Never mind that such a notion is legally untenable. You've alse written that her criminal past "trumps everything."
It may for you, but I'm not guided by your moral compass. I have my own.
You've mentioned several times previously that most commenters share your opinion. This obviously means a lot to you. Joining the maddening crowd, automatically genuflecting toward the popular viewpoint, has never attracted me. If I'd stood up in 1970 and argued for legal gay marriage, I guarantee you the overwhelming majority would have opposed me, and loudly. So what? The numbers didn't make them right, then or now.
A prenup is wise when moving someone into your home to cohabitate without marriage, especially if one partner makes $18 million a year and the other doesn't work. The circumstances get a lot thicker when the time frame extends, or things like engagement rings and pregnancies intrude. How people behave in those crunch times of life is often telling, and certainly worth examining.
That's all I've done with the blog entry. She's been felonious in her past; it's obviously a big part of the equation. But everyone focuses on that, exclusively. I chose to focus on ANOTHER part of the equation. All stories are multifaceted, you know.
"genuflecting"
You've used that word a lot. Did you just learn what it means or something?
"It may for you, but I'm not guided by your moral compass. I have my own.
You've mentioned several times previously that most commenters share your opinion. This obviously means a lot to you."
Your implication is that my opinion being the popular one is important to me. I could not care less.
I only note the overwhelmingly one sided response because I've never seen so many people disagree with even the basic premise of article quite the way the response has been to this one.
Also, you find gay marriage and the right of criminals to lay claim to the finances of their victims to be equal civil rights struggles?
Finally, I asked a basic question....
What do you think is Nowitzki's motive?
From your article, all I can tell is you think he's a jerk and a "cad". If that were the case why did he treat her very well UNTIL he learned about her past. You want to paint him as a rich playboy treating women as Kleenex.
But, if that's the case, he could have just used her and gotten rid of her. He totally could have gotten younger and hotter and many more women. He didn't. His actions speak to a man in love who was hurt.
So, again, WHY would he do this unless she betrayed him? Why?
Wow......it sounds like there is something else going on there.
I wonder what it is...?
This is where liberals lose people.
You are responsible for your own actions. Everyone is responsible for their own actions. Period.
If she were his wife and he just found out about her past, I wouldn't fault him for leaving her there.
Fraud should not be rewarded.
That is a very immature comment. You are indeed responsible for your own actions, but you are also responsible for your actions that affect other people.
Your reasoning is so simplistic I can only wonder how many adult relationships you have experienced.
On a side note, Malkin has no chance against Datsyuk (if he is healthy).
My reasoning is simple because this is such a simple argument.
You don't reward fraud. Period. If you would like to explain why we should reward fraud, by all means...until then...
Pens in 6. Orpik will take out Datsyuk...
This woman is in jail because of her own actions. She failed to fulfill her obligations regarding probation. She has a criminal history that for some reason is insignificant to Mr. Williams; apparently he seems to think she really doesn't need to pay her debt to society or have it minimized simply because she is pregnant by a multimillionaire. I don't agree with this viewpoint at all. This article also makes it sound like Dirk dumped her because she got pregnant, which isn't the case.
Going to games, getting engaged, sitting with his dad, taking the car in for services really doesn't excuse the fact that she lied to Dirk about her past. Nobody knows exactly what she told Dirk; she admits that she was afraid to tell him everything so she probably told him a very heavily edited version of the truth and he thought it was a non issue.
There are a number of reasons she's languishing in jail and lack of money is one of those reasons. She has no money because she chose not to work. Dirk didn't lock her up and forbid her from working, did he? It is her fault she's poor and jailed, not his.
I'm not sure why we are supposed to feel empathy for a woman whose crimes extend over a number of years; Dirk hasn't committed any crimes but yet he's the villain and should pay for her mistakes? Illogical..
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I never hinted or suggested that her criminal history is "insignificant."
I never hinted or suggested that her criminal history should be "minimized simply because she is pregnant by a multimillionaire."
I never hinted or suggested that she's poor because of Nowitzki.
These are your talking points, but they are not in any way divined from what I wrote.
She's no saint, and I don't excuse or justify her past. To repeat my basic thesis:
I think it's classless -- in the extreme -- to move a woman into my multi-million dollar mansion for upwards of two years, get myself engaged to her, impregnate her, and then call the authorities and kick her to the side of the road when I learn the particulars about her criminal past, a past I wasn't exactly unaware of to begin with.
Her past is her own fault, but she ceased to be a solo player upwards of 18 months ago when he installed her into his orbit, his home, and his bed, which has led, apparently (go figure!) to the creation of his future offspring. Everyone has pleasantly lost sight of all this, which says much more about the world we live in than about me.
I think it is classless-in the extreme-to lie and deceive multiple people and the law more than once and fail to pay the required debt to society. It is especially classless and cowardly to not be entirely forthcoming to a man who has made a commitment to you under false pretenses.
Mr. Williams is also calling for Dirk to pay for her attorney and "grease the wheels" of justice simply because he has the funds to do so. It is her responsibility to deal with her actions and resulting consequences, not Dirk's.
In the article, you actually make her criminal history look like nothing simply because the acts occurred a number of years ago. Fact is, she failed to carry through on her obligations to the state. Again, her failure, not Dirk's.
Just because she moved in, got engaged, and pregnant by him does not obligate him to pay his money to get her off or compensate for mistakes SHE made. They weren't married, after all. She has admitted she was not entirely truthful about her past to him. Sounds like deceptive/fraudulent behavior to me, something she has a habit of engaging in. You have pleasantly lost sight of all this,Mr. Williams.
You have minimized her criminal past to an amazing extent.
You don't seem to realize it trumps EVERYTHING, even her getting his drycleaning. And, 99 % of people here disagreeing with you doesn't seem to have changed you mind, so...
There are all kinds of factual errors in this story. The biggest one is that the story strongly implies that Dirk can just bail this gal out. There is no bail on the charges because she previously jumped bail. So even if he were inclined to bail her out -- and why should he be -- he could not do so. The author also claims that DIrk "said nothing" up returning from Denver. Nothing could be further from the truth. He addressed the situation with the media in depth in so far as it pertained to the team, admitted it was a distraction and a bad time for it to occur, but (entirely sensibly), declined to air the details his personal business in public.
But on to more pertinent points. Why on earth should Dirk bail this gal out of jail now? Certainly he will seek custody of the child, assuming it is his, when it is born, but her legal problems are just that -- HER legal problems. Frankly, she'll be lucky if the judge doesn't terminate her parent child relationship at this rate.
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I'd steer clear of PI Lawyer's ability to persuade a jury. This font of legal wisdom writes that I'm guilty of "all kinds of factual errors" and that "The biggest one is that the story strongly implies" something. If my biggest "factual error" is that I "imply" something, then that's not a "factual error," is it?
What I imply is that Nowitzki's the reason his pregnant fiancée has languished in jail for almost a month. Nobody sits in the slammer that long over a parole violation for some forged checks and a fraudulent credit card purchase if they have money and a good lawyer. She's still there because she has neither. It was HIS choice not to help, so he's the reason she's languishing, period.
I think it's classless -- in the extreme -- to move a woman into my multi-million dollar mansion for upwards of two years, get myself engaged to her, impregnate her, and then kick her to the side of the road when I learn the particulars about her criminal past, a past I wasn't exactly unaware of to begin with.
That's my opinion, what I wrote is correct as known and reported, and I supply links. There are some side shows I didn't waste time on, and a couple of notable rumors I identified as such.
She's no saint, and I don't excuse or justify her past. But automatic genuflecting at the alter of Dirk the Great is apparently the only allowable viewpoint. Sorry, not me.
Nowitzki isn't helping her because she was scamming him. Don't say there isn't proof, there is more evidence of that than there is that Nowitzki's coach is a racist.
"It was HIS choice not to help, so he's the reason she's languishing, period."
Your views on individual responsibility are completely out of the mainstream.
And, I for one, and 99% of the people who have responded to you DON'T CARE at all about "Dirk the Great". I haven't watched an NBA game since Jordan was in Chicago. I couldn't pick Dirk Nowitzki out of a lineup...unless the other guys were really short.
So far the only reasons you have offered for why it's HIS responsibility for her situtation and not HERS are:
He has a lot of money.
She lied to him about being a fraud, but since she didn't rip him off directly (even though there is evidence that she did) he shouldn't mind and not feel betrayed by her deception AND should give $100,000 to her to make her go away.
Jackson, you either have a personal connection to this story that you are omitting OR you feel very strongly on an issue where 99% of people disagree with you and can articulate why quite clearly.
Jack, I have no idea how you developed that exclusive POV that you are so proud of, I think you're multidimensional wrong that it's hard to find a starting point to argue against it. So let's keep it short and factual:
Regarding your statement
"That's my opinion, what I wrote is correct as known and reported, and I supply links.", you wrote:
"Meanwhile, it's been almost a month, and she's still in jail and still pregnant. (...)$100,000 [a "guesstimate", as we know now) to wash his hands and then longterm child support pending a paternity test is what he was looking at. It would have been so simple, and out of the media spotlight."
whereas the USA TODAY reports:
"She has $50,000 bond set on the theft of services charge, but was also arrested for a probation violation out of St. Charles County, Missouri, and is being held WITHOUT BOND on that charge."
Furthermore you wrote:
"An expensive engagement ring followed (over $100,000, she says, but HE'S GOT IT), ..."
Christa(l)'s Quote:
"Probably over $150,000, though," she said. "It's in a safe-deposit box, and I can't use it or sell it. It doesn't go toward my legal fees. I wish it did."
Now, the funny thing about that is all I need to do to detect these factual errors is following those two links you provided and actually reading these articles.
...Now, the funny thing about that is all I need to do to detect these factual errors is following those two links you provided and actually reading these articles.
An additional advice to everyone who intends to do so (including you Jack, if you wanna try again): There's absolutely no need to take anything Christa(l) said for granted (nor is any of that correct as known and reported). She's (reportedly) a con-artist and does lying for a living, remember? Not just therefore you may not want to base your opinion on statements coming from a woman sitting in jail basically for various forms of lying.
This woman has various aliases and has been charged with check forgery and attempts to use other people's information to obtain credit. Dirk is not the first athlete she has targeted. In a Dallas Morning News article former Dallas Cowboy, Tony Banks, said that this woman had stalked him. While he did go out with her several times, she started harrassing him when he no longer wanted to see her. She began calling the Cowboys management and making false accusations, that's when their security people stepped in. I'm afraid Dirk is the victim here for falling for this scam artist,
If she were hiding the fact that she was a murderer, would he still have to bail her out?
She never killed him, after all...
1st let me state I'm a Black Male since there seems to be some sort of racial undertone here. She is a Criminal I repeat a Criminal. She broke her probation and she is obligated to paying her debt to society Period. So she is pregnant I assume it is not a "Problem Pregnancy" since she is not in the hospital, so what is wrong with her doing her time? This is a Country of Laws she broke them not Mr. Nowitski, I have zero sympathy for this woman because I myself have been a victim of a crime similar to the one she perpetrated. She should not receive a "Get Out Of Jail Card" because she maybe pregnant by a Basketball Player.
This is a Law and Order Issue
-Sarge
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Why shoud Dirk get her out of jail? Just because he can afford to do so?
It looks like the romance is over and Dirk has made his stand. He has no obligation to get her out of jail or pay her legal fees. They are not married.
con me once, shame on me. con me twice......wont get conned again
This tragic love story could all go away for the low introductory price of $100,000.
Some of you people, whether christian or not, really need to ask yourselves this question before commenting: "What would Jesus Do?" I'm not christian but I find that question to be a good starting point when trying to see the supposed "human" point of view. In this case, I would think that Jesus, being in love with his pregnant fiance, would try to help her through this rough patch in her life. He knew she had a criminal past. Hell, according to the article,even his friends knew she had a criminal past. While I may be naive enough to believe in unconditional love, I'm not naive enough to believe that his advisers didn't suggest that he distance himself from this situation after alerting police to her whereabouts.
It would affect none of you if he were to help her yet your comments speak to some sort of personal stake at this woman remaining incarcerated. I wonder if it is easy for some of you to see her as this wanton career criminal because she's Black, and his handlers, probably wanting their separation, counted on it. Very few people can be objective when the media focuses on Black criminals. The opinion, the scrutiny, the sentence is always more harsh. Even after the acquittal or time served, the Black criminal remains scorned. This story is a shame, not a lynching.
yes, it is clear Nowitzki and those close to him were suspicious of this woman. That is the reason they hired an investigator to check her out. He clearly didnt know she was a wanted fugutive
so what do you suggest Nowitzki do? Should he have obstructed the police who had been looking for this woman? You want him to "grease the wheels of justice"? I doubt he would want to do that, especially after finding out she wasnt who he thought she was. Im sure he feels betrayed
and again, he couldnt bail her out even if he wanted to. There is no bail for her probation violations
anyway, I think i know where your agenda comes from...fyi, not everything is about race mysticsblues
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LB 14,
You refer to her as a "wanted fugitive"..."the police who had been looking for this woman." Such exciting language! I think you've watched too many episodes of Law and Order. I got a ticket at age 17 for running a stop light, then blew it off. Nine years went by before I was pulled over again, and a warrant showed up when my license was called in. Off to jail, a lesson learned. I guess you could say I was a "wanted fugitive" for nine years, but I guarantee you nobody was looking for me.
You also promote the myth that she's still in jail because, well, that's the law.
No, she's been in jail for upwards of a month now because she's had no money and no decent lawyer advocating on her behalf. As noted elsewhere, money and a decent lawyer would have already put things in motion for both the credit card theft charge in Texas and the long ago parole violation in Missouri. The costs would have been a fraction of what Dirk has already spent on her as his lover.
She's stuck because Dirk washed his hands of his pregnant fiancée and dumped her on the state. Yes, she has a past (that he wasn't clueless about), and I don't excuse or seek to justify it in the least. But a bit of circumspection is in order here, not automatic genuflecting at the alter of Dirk the Great.
WWJD? forgive but make her accept responsibility for her own actions.
I stopped reading your article at
"His German coach supposedly never liked her...perhaps because she's African-American, who knows?"
You make here such a cheap assertion without substance, and cover it with a "who knows?"
Dirk and his coach are Germans, so they have to be racists, right!?
What a mean-spirited and poor excuse of an article.
Shame on you!
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