Dan Marino Hid Love Child from CBS Bosses and Agent, But Not Wife?
February 01, 2013
Super Bowl
The New York Post is back with explosive new allegations today, claiming Dan Marino kept his love child a secret for seven years, from his bosses at CBS Sports and his longtime agent, but did tell his wife.
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According to the Post, Marino told his CBS bosses at “The NFL Today” on Wednesday, when he learned the paper was about to blow the lid off the story.
The former Miami Dolphins quarterback allegedly used other attorneys -- not his longtime lawyer/agent -- to broker a hush money deal with Donna worth millions.
Dan and Donna reportedly met at CBS in New York, where he was a pre-game analyst and she was a production assistant. Sources told the Post that Savattere, then 35, gave birth to Chloe, in 2005.
“They had an affair, and she had a baby,” said a source. “Everything was on the down-low and secretive.”
Marino sort of confessed to the paper, explaining, “This is a personal and private matter. I take full responsibility both personally and financially for my actions now as I did then. We mutually agreed to keep our arrangement private to protect all parties involved... My wife and I have been married for almost 30 years and have six children together.”
So far, no word on exactly how much he paid to keep the affair a secret. Donna supposedly agreed to move to Texas with the baby, but later resurfaced in New York, where she is married and has a second child with her current husband.
The explosive headlines could make for an awkward Super Bowl Sunday for Marino, who is scheduled to work for CBS leading up to the Baltimore Ravens vs. San Francisco 49ers game.
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I love Dan Marino. Loved him as a QB for the Dolphins and love him as a commentator on Sundays. If his wife knows about it and she's fine with it or even if she wasn't fine with it how is this any business of CBS? It's a personal family matter and that means it's no one's business. Not his fans, not his enemies, not his employers or agents. It's a private family matter and it should have stayed that way. I wish her and the baby good luck! Good luck also to Dan and his family, I hope this doesn't hurt either party and their families. Now move on and mind your own business!!!
Really its not my business or no one else.
Marino embarassed ??? He has doen anything lots of other football players have done !!!
WELL, "NO BETTER TIME" TOO BRAKE YET ANOTHER STORY OF A "FOOTBALL PLAYER" ON "SUPER BOWL WEEK" NOW WE SHOULDN'T HAVE WATCH HIS "SORRY NESS "SHAME" ON "CBS" SUPER BOWL SUNDAY!!! EVEN THOU HE's Just "1 of the 2 " I HAVE "ANY RESPECT FOR The Other is the "GREAT" S. SHARP"
It's a personal matter, he handled the issue at the time with those concerned. Nobody's business but those involved. He did not owe his boss, CBS etc to share this info.
If all the parties involved were able to deal with it 7 years ago why can't Extra. Doesn't the child deserve a little privacy? Come on Extra, there is no start here, your behaving like vultures picking over a very dead horse. Is it really worth disrupting 9 children's lives just to get ratings? You all should be ashamed.
This isn't our business. From what I have heard living near his family, he isn't the typical womanizer. It is between he and his family and shame on The New York Post for trying to make a buck off a little girl, not to mention the pain it is going to cause his wife and their children. It is no where near what The Terminator did all of his married life, in his own home to boot!
This is between Dan, his wife, and the baby's mother. This shouldn't be public news...period. I couldn't care less how much money he paid her. As I said, it is their business and it should remain that way. Media needs to stay out of it.
its none of our business, makes no difference to me, its between him and his wife not the public.
Very disappointed in Dan Marino, I expected a better man out of him. I feel bad for his wife and family. What an embarrassment.