New England Patriot coach Bill Belichick has been supporting his alleged mistress – a New Jersey housewife in the midst of a divorce – by sending her envelopes stuffed with cash and buying a secret $2.2 million Park Slope town house for her use, court papers allege.
For the last 18 months, Belichick has mailed or wired about $3,000 a month in cash to Sharon Shenocca, she said.
Belichick, she said, also paid for her $25,000 Jersey Shore summer rental in Lavallette and showered her with gifts, including a private jet to Disney World and a Fast Pass credit card to pay for gasoline.
Last June, she said, Belichick bought the tony Brooklyn town house, which boasts stained-glass windows and parquet floors, on Sixth Street, less than a block from Prospect Park.
Sharon, 41, revealed the cash, gifts and Brooklyn getaway in divorce depositions taken in November and January, admitting she had earlier fibbed in denying the football coach’s financial largesse.
“I am sorry,” she testified.
The confession prompted her and her estranged husband, Vincent Shenocca, to reach an agreement last week on the financial aspects of their divorce, lawyers said.
And that means that Belichick may not have to testify under oath about the money he spent on her, a New Jersey judge said.
But the Shenoccas continue a fierce battle over Sharon’s desire to move with their kids to Belichick’s Brooklyn town house – a move hotly contested by her husband.
Sharon’s sister, singer Terry Radigan, and brother-in-law Ned Massey, a songwriter, have moved into the four-bedroom town house, which was purchased last June for $2,225,000 by B.R. Realty Trust, the deed shows.
According to lawyers for Sharon’s estranged husband, the letters stand for Belichick and Radigan, Sharon’s maiden name. Belichick is separated from his wife of 28 years, Debby.
Sharon has slept in the town house a number of times, she said in the deposition. She remains at the marital home in Morristown, N.J, with her kids.
Vincent Shenocca, who owns a stucco business, contends his wife “has committed adultery with William Belichick at various times and places presently unknown.” He told relatives he intercepted FedEx deliveries to Sharon that held cash from the coach.
Sharon, who met Belichick in the 1980s when she was a receptionist for the New York Giants and he was the team’s defensive coordinator, insisted he was just a “family friend.”
But when questioned under oath by Vincent’s lawyers, she said Belichick started sending her about $3,000 a month in June 2005 after Vincent had yanked her credit card.
Asked how long Belichick sent the money, she replied, “Well, it’s still going on.”
She said she had no records to document the cash.
Calling the money “borrowed,” Sharon said she used it on such expenses as a cleaning lady, earrings (at $796 and $531 a pair), sessions with a personal trainer, Giant tickets (which she used to pay for a leased Honda SUV) and vacations to a Utah spa, Florida, Jamaica and Puerto Rico, where she stayed at the InterContinental San Juan Resort, Spa and Casino.
She said she made most of the trips with her sister but took her kids to Disney World in Florida.
She also testified that she once asked the coach if she could borrow money from him to buy a house to put it in her sister’s name and quoted him as telling her, “Well, if you find something, we’ll talk about it.”
Instead, she plans to move into the town house. She first said the “landlord” was B.R. Realty Trust. When asked who owned it, she replied, “Bill Belichick.”
The rent “hasn’t been figured out yet,” she said.
B.R. Realty Trust’s corporate address uses the same post-office box, town and ZIP code as Belichick’s mailing address in Foxboro, Mass.
Belichick and his lawyer did not return calls for comment.