This former Yankee pitcher is giving his gorgeous ex-girlfriend anything but relief.
Blond beauty Elizabeth Ariosto says her onetime love, Tanyon Sturtze, got her a credit card back in 2006 so she could travel to see him play and to pay for household expenses — but now bill collectors are banging on her door for $44,000.
Ariosto and the journeyman hurler, who played 13 years in the big leagues, met through mutual friends in 2003 and were engaged and living in Las Vegas by 2006.
Sturtze, now 42, gave her the credit card from US Bank with her name on it, according to court papers.
Aspiring model Ariosto was barely making ends meet at the time and never asked or applied for the card herself, said her lawyer, Raymond Baierlein.
“He presented it to her and said, ‘Hey, I got this card for you,’ and implied or said directly that she was an authorized user on the account,” Baierlein said.
The couple paid for the card, which had a $10,000 limit, from a joint account funded by Sturtze, who had signed a $750,000 contract with the Atlanta Braves in 2006, the lawyer said.
The relationship fizzled in 2010, and when Ariosto changed her address, creditors started demanding payment, she says.
Ariosto is now suing Pilot Receivables Management in Manhattan Supreme Court.
“Without question, my client did not have the ability to get approval on her own,” Baierlein said. She was only given the card, the lawyer said, “because Tanyon Sturtze asked for it.”
Sturtze, who played for the Yanks from 2004 to 2006, denied the allegations.
“Are you kidding?” the ex-hurler, who now sells insurance, said when approached at his Florida home. US Bank declined to comment.
Additional reporting by Julie Kay