He’s been out of baseball for almost 10 years, but ex-Met Bobby Bonilla is still getting Bronx cheers — this time from his ex-wife.
Madiglia “Millie” Bonilla says the former Flushing lightning rod for boos has been moving around his money and hiding his accounts and holdings from her, and she wants a judge to call him out on it.
“I’m very disappointed with how he’s handled the whole situation,” Millie told The Post. “It’s very unnecessary for him to do all this.”
Her hubby raked in more than $50 million during his playing career, but court records show the couple’s assets were only a fraction of that by the time they divorced last year — around $18 million. That included a $3 million apartment in Manhattan, a $2 million home in Connecticut and an $850,000 place in Florida. Bonilla now has his own $8 million home in Greenwich, Conn.
The Connecticut judge who presided over the divorce ordered Millie get all the marital properties, but must sell the Manhattan pad and give her ex 15 percent of the proceeds.
The judge also ordered Bobby Bonilla to split his holdings with her, and Millie is convinced he’s holding out. The former slugger claimed to have “only” $1.6 million in liquid assets when the divorce went through, and she says he’s been dodging numerous document demands. He’s even failed to turn over the symbolic $1 a month he’s supposed to be paying her for alimony.
The ex-wife has now hired renowned private eye Vito Colucci to locate the rest of Bobby’s assets.
“Where’s the rest of his money?” Millie asked. “There are all these financial documents he hasn’t been providing. There’s a lot of businesses I wasn’t even aware of.”
In court last week, Bonilla’s lawyer reportedly denied his client was hiding anything.
Reached at his Greenwich home, Bonilla, 47, said only, “Let’s just put it this way: It’s unfortunate and that’s all I have to say.”
The couple met at Herbert Lehman HS in The Bronx, and divorced last year after 23 years of marriage. The judge who handled the divorce found “the wife was more responsible for the breakdown of the marital relationship than the husband.”
Bobby claimed the mother of their two kids, ages 16 and 21, suffered from an unspecified mental illness, a charge Millie was upset he’d gone public with.
Both of their fortunes will turn around in July 2011. That’s when Bobby gets to start collecting on his deferred compensation from the Mets. When the Amazin’s cut him after the 1999 season, they struck an odd deal where if he gave up the $5.9 million salary he was due in 2000, they’d pay him $1.1 million a year between 2011 and 2035.
As part of the divorce judgment, Millie is entitled to 50 percent of that money.
Additional reporting by Dan Mangan