Alex Rodriguez sued by ex-brother-in-law, who seeks millions and claims A-Rod profited from hurricane relief

The former brother-in-law of former MLB star and current baseball analyst Alex Rodriguez is demanding millions of dollars in back pay from the ex-slugger in a civil suit filed to Miami civil court last week. The suit alleges that a business of A-Rod’s tried to profit off of the damage that Hurricane Ike created in 2008 and that the three-time MVP nearly caused the ex-brother-in-law to lose his home.

Constantine Scurtis—the brother of Cynthia Scurtis, Rodriguez’s wife from 2002 to 2008—claims that a business relationship between himself and the former Rangers player began to deteriorate as the ballplayer’s marriage did. They formed a real estate partnership in 2003 where Rodriguez would make most of the money, as his name was the “cash cow” of the business, and Scurtis would get the rest plus a fee for any acquisitions made.

Then in 2008, Scurtis was allegedly kicked out of his office and, despite reassurances from Rodriguez himself, the business relationship and friendship was dissolved. This became official when, as the lawsuit claims, Rodriguez sold the company’s assets to a new company, this one without Scurtis.