Deadbeat Knick Eddy Curry owns a $4.5 million mansion, so many cars he can’t remember them all, and enough bling to stock a jewelry store — but he’s spent five years stiffing creditors around the country, The Post has learned.
Yet the oft-injured center insists that he’s clueless — any financial fouls, he said, were committed by his accountant, Lamont Carter.
The bean counter, who was also his manager, collected Curry’s income and was supposed to pay his bills in full. They included $115,000 for a 7-carat engagement ring, $33,000 for a pair of diamond earrings and $285,999 for a men’s diamond and gold chain. Not to mention $4.5 million for the Illinois mansion Curry shares with his family.
Curry said he first realized he was on he hook for a fortune in 2008, when things started going bad.
That included a foreclosure on his home as a stack of unpaid bills and loans kept piling up interest.
Curry, 27, who raked in more than $40 million by the time he fired Carter in 2008, claims he doesn’t know what happened to the missing millions and is suing his ex-accountant.
Curry has more than $2 million in debt and a Las Vegas-based loan firm recently obtained a $1.2 million judgment against him.
The hulking center admits he spent lots of money — he’s just not sure how much or on what.
In a recent court hearing, he had to be prompted to recall the various Range Rovers, Rolls-Royces and Cadillacs he owns.
The family currently doesn’t have much of a nest egg — documents show Curry currently has a total of $186,000 tucked away in his 401(k).