Dennis Rodman Could Face a Prison Sentence for Child And Spouse

The former basketball star known for his flamboyance owes more than $800,000, but his attorney says he's broke. His financial advisor says Rodman is an alcoholic and that affects his ability to get work.

Dennis Rodman could face jail over child and spousal support, Dennis Rodman is in desperate need of restoration.

Orange County court commissioner said Tuesday in the NBA Hall of Fame, he is faced with the possible passage of 20 days in jail for contempt of court if it comes up with $ 860,376 in child and spousal support he owes his ex-wife until May 29, he probably could get time to community service instead.

Anyway, Rodman's lawyer and financial adviser, for example, came out of their customers.

"To be honest, Dennis, albeit a very nice person is an alcoholic," said Peggy Williams, his financial adviser. "His illness affects his ability to find work."

Rodman, 50, known for recovering and defense for 14 years in the NBA, is not the first former professional athlete to lose a fortune. But this is probably the only one who was also wearing a wedding dress to promote the book, from Madonna and married Carmen Electra was a candidate for Donald Trump's "Celebrity Apprentice".

Rodman wild ways are well known in Orange County, where he lived off and on since 1990.

His house on the beach the old Newport Beach could be taken to the police station. The police were called there 80 times, mostly to calm a raucous party. Rodman arrived 40 years in a helicopter - which landed illegally.

His 47-foot motor boat, Sexual Chocolate, was towed when it docked in a slip of another person in Newport Harbor. He turned the narrow streets of the Balboa Peninsula Hummer decorated with pictures of naked women and the Ford 350 pickup truck with a self-portrait on the cover.

When his third wife, Michelle Rodman, he filed for divorce in 2004, Rodman has sold the site range. At that time, he named his income last year was $ 570,000. He said that $ 3.4 million in real estate and 1.45 million shares and bonds. But, according to him, keeping him alive is difficult charges cost him more than $ 31,000 a month.

A couple years trying to reconcile, but the marriage ended a few weeks ago, after his wife went to court again.

"This case, in particular, his wife filled for divorce, put him into a rage that I had never seen before," says Williams. Rodman, she says she does not have a job, savings or checking account.

With the arrest of a random, rainbow hair color changes, and tens of thousands of dollars deposited in the strip clubs, Rodman and tax issues. He took off his NBA pension penny to pay taxes owed in California and another $ 350,000 in back taxes, according to the Orange County court documents, although his lawyers say he should be much lower.

However, when it was introduced last year in the NBA Hall of Fame, media reports have characterized the old failures and defensive specialist who does a good life in sponsorship, advertising campaigns, has granted the license as a DJ and upscale.

"Prior to the Hall of Fame called, we met to draft Dennis" and his marketing agent told the New York Times. "Now, our phones ring. There was a huge surge in business opportunities."

Rodman won three NBA championships with the Bulls in the late 1990s, and played with the Lakers, albeit briefly.

He referred to Michelle as his "wife" in the course of the hearing and said that the two dined together with their two children in the Outback Steakhouse on Monday night.

Rodman, who lives in Miami, said the dispute "has never been a hate thing. We do not like it." He added that both were "just trying to do."

When the court broke for lunch, they huddled to plan meals.