Jordan sues to stop Meadville woman's e-mails, calls

[TJ Phaserman 2]

MEADVILLE -- Former NBA basketball great Michael Jordan denies being the father of Lisa A. Miceli's son.

 

Two paternity tests, one ordered in Crawford County Court and the other agreed upon by Jordan and Miceli, support the claim.

 

Now Jordan is claiming that Miceli's fight to get Jordan to acknowledge fatherhood and provide support for the child has turned threatening and violent. He's asking Crawford County Court to intervene.

 

Lawyers for the five-time NBA Most Valuable Player say Miceli has sent hundred of e-mails and voice-mail messages to Jordan and others since the second paternity test was done in the late summer of 2005.

 

A suit filed in Crawford County late Wednesday afternoon seeks a court order barring Miceli from having any further contact with Jordan, his family, his representatives or their family members.

 

 

Crawford County President Judge Gordon Miller has scheduled a hearing on the matter for Wednesday at 1:30 p.m. Jordan is not expected to attend.

 

"Due to the increasingly violent and threatening content of the communications, Michael had no choice but to seek legal protection," Jordan's lawyer, Frederick J. Sperling of Chicago, said Thursday night.

 

Sperling declined to comment on the nature of the relationship, if any, that Jordan and Miceli had.

 

Miceli did not return a phone message left Thursday at her Meadville home seeking comment.

 

Miceli claims on her blog, mjordanmistress.blogspot.com, that Jordan fathered her now-3-year-old son during a romantic encounter between the two. She also claims that her relationship with the current part-owner of the Charlotte Bobcats NBA franchise dated back to 1999, when the two first met at a charity golf tournament.

 

 

Two paternity tests were conducted over Miceli's claim.

 

The first was conducted in 2004 after Miceli filed action against Jordan in Crawford County Court that sought to establish paternity and to get Jordan to pay child support.

 

That test, conducted by Laboratory Corp. of America, excluded Jordan as the father, according to Jordan's suit.

 

Jordan readily agreed to submit to a second paternity test in 2005 after Miceli challenged the results of the first test, according to the suit.

 

An agreement made before that test included a provision requiring Miceli to have no further contact with Jordan if he was again ruled out as the child's father.

 

 

The second test, conducted by DNA Diagnostics Center, excluded Jordan as the father of Miceli's son, according to Jordan's suit.

 

The complaint against Miceli, filed by Pittsburgh lawyers Kenneth J. Horoho Jr. and Mark R. Alberts on behalf of Jordan and Sperling, alleges that Miceli has repeatedly violated the no-contact agreement.

 

Miceli is accused of sending nearly 400 e-mails to Jordan and his representatives since Aug. 26, 2005. She has also placed hundreds of phone calls to his office and to his representatives, and left more than 200 voice-mail messages, according to the suit.

 

"The content of Miceli's e-mails, notes and telephone calls clearly demonstrates that she is a seriously disturbed individual," the suit reads.

 

The lawsuit alleges that Miceli, in one message, stated that she hopes Jordan would be murdered and "wiped off the (expletive) planet."

 

 

Jordan's lawsuit includes verification forms signed by Jordan and an appendix, more than 3 inches thick, with copies of the e-mails and a compact disc containing copies of the voice mails that Miceli is accused of sending to Jordan and others.

 

The messages include claims, purportedly by Miceli, that Jordan and his family members have assaulted her because of her relationship with him, that her personal items have been stolen and her privacy has been invaded "on a level that is causing severe and unbearable mental pain and anguish in PA."

 

Some alleged e-mails claim that Jordan had offered to help Miceli, and even proposed to her. But in others, Miceli allegedly bemoans Jordan's lack of attention and his unwillingness to help her out.

 

In the most recent e-mail in the appendix, sent to Sperling and dated Jan. 16, Miceli allegedly wrote: "If you do not know by now that MJ raped me ... YOU ARE A (expletive) IDIOT."

 

It was unknown Thursday if Miceli had seen the civil suit.

 

 

Meadville lawyer Edward Hatheway, who represented Miceli during the second paternity test, said he had not been contacted by Miceli and was unaware that the suit had been filed.

 

Sperling said Thursday that he expects to be in Crawford County for the Feb. 6 hearing. Sperling said Jordan, 44, who won six NBA championships with the Chicago Bulls during his playing career, will not likely attend.

[Dabo Queen 0]

This woman sounds like an effing head case....Jordan better start having his groupie sharks screen better.