LAWRENCEVILLE, Ga. — The wife of former Yankees slugger Andruw Jones filed for divorce about a week after she accused him of grabbing her neck and saying he wanted to kill her, according to a court document.
Nicole Jones said their 10-year marriage is “irretrievably broken,” according to the divorce complaint filed in a suburban Atlanta court Monday.
Jones, who spent the past two seasons with the Yankees, recently signed a $3.5 million, one-year contract with the Tohoku Rakuten Golden Eagles of Japan’s Pacific League. After a semi-productive year mostly coming off the bench in 2011, Jones struggled last season. He appeared in 94 games 14 home runs and 34 RBIs while batting .197, and was not re-signed by the team.